What is Fashion?
Fashion History
By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.com
Laver's Law
A timeline table on the fashion perspective suggested by the famous costume historian James Laver.
Theories of Fashion
Semiotics. 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 Technology
Textile 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.
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Fashion Comment
This 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.
Ebooks
We 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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