Comments on: Fashion Theory: On Status

By: FashionPeriod

FashionPeriod — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:29:49 +0000

I think it’s so interesting how fashion trickles down from different eras. Whenever I’m…anywhere really, I can’t help but notice something ‘Flapper-esque’, or very ‘Middle-Agey’, etc. about so many of the clothes being sold.
If you get the chance, my blogs all about the little quirks and strange things in fashion throughout all the eras. Take a look! I’d appreciate it.

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Sat, 13 Feb 2010 16:05:23 +0000

[...] say the symbolic properties that are related to identity, whether through self-identity or through status and group-membership. Fashion itself is centered around this concept: beyond clothing ourselves for [...]

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:47:16 +0000

Thanks so much!

By: eurbanista

eurbanista — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:57:11 +0000

Oops! That’s an error, which I’ve just corrected. These notes come from an article written in 1969. Here’s the citation:
“Fashion: From Class Differentiation to Collective Selection,” Herbert Blumer. The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 3. (1969)

By: Anna

Anna — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:07:41 +0000

What is the title of the Blumer (1926) article on the trickle-across theory?