What is Fashion?
Fashion History
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com
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What is Fashion?
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Theories of FashionSemiotics. The meaning of fashion. An explanation of fashion as a sign system of cultural change and tribal belonging. A look at class stratification, status, profession and requirements of clothing from everyday uniform to a mass youth cult uniform. Status symbols, group affiliation and branding. Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class. Mass production and fashion cycles. |
Fashion TechnologyTextile technology developments and modern lifestyles. Shopping today across all ranges from Tweenies to baby boomers. Influence of home shopping via television and the Internet to the needs of larger ladies and opinionated middle youth consumers. Click on the headings to go to full pages. |
Ebooks | Laver's LawA timeline table on the fashion perspective suggested by the famous costume historian James Laver. * | |
Fashion CommentThis page comments on interesting fashion articles from newspapers and magazines. Usually they will have some facts and figures about the British fashion world or useful current information suitable for this website. Haute Couture
and Chambre Syndicale moved to the section Couture
Fashion.
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Fashion Trends for 2007We have pages showing the latest trends in colours, fashion fabrics, textures, prints. There are also pages on fashion styles, bags, fashion accessories in high street and designer looks.
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