I just heard this story on NPR today about copying of styles within the fashion industry. The article makes the point that copying is important to the inovation that goes on in the fashion industry:
"New styles appear, they become widely copied [and] the copying signals that a trend has taken hold," he says. People buy into that trend, he says, because they want to be in fashion. As the copying continues, the early adopters see the rise of imitators and jump off, and the trend dies, he says. They then jump on the next trend and the fashion cycle begins again. "So without copying, paradoxically, the fashion industry would be smaller and less innovative and poorer," he says. So perhaps the bicycle and fashion industries share this feature? http://www.npr.org/2014/10/19/357356041/bucking-the-fashion-trend-converse-kicks-up-a-fuss-about-knockoffs?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2043 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
