Documentos de Académico
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Session 2011-2012
Following the customs and traditions of dress provide stability or continuity of culture. Our social inheritance is modified by the changes that occur in the whole cultural climate.
restrict or impede fashion change, while other factors serve to stimulate or accelerate such change.
The rate of change in any given period of history is dependent upon the balance that exists between these two sets of forces.
A rigidly defined class system, reinforced by an unequal distribution of wealth retards fashion movement and gives rise to traditional forms of dress. Ruling class is able to maintain both wealth and power has little need for fashion race. Cost of apparels limits fashion change.
Sumptuary laws that restrict fashion imitation reduce the necessity for rapid change. When a ruling class finds itself unable to maintain its position of fashion supremacy through the control of wealth, it often restricts the consumption of lesser citizens through the enactment of sumptuary laws.
Sumptuary laws
These sumptuary laws are not very common in modern society, they are found to be prevalent in almost every nation where class distinctions are recognized.
Customs
Traditional forms of dress that are deeply rooted in customs and habit tend to preserve the status quo. Traditions are perpetuated through the symbolic use of clothing, and a reverence for the past causes people to cling to the time-honored forms of dress that signify ones status, role or position.
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Isolation
Fear
Fear of the new and unknown inhibits fashion change. A certain sense of security is afforded by styles that are familiar, and most people refrain from buying anything which is startling new or daringly different for the fear of being ridiculed. Evils and misfortunes that may accompany the new and unproven.
Government Restrictions
Shortages and/ or restrictions imposed on the use of raw materials retard fashion change. Excise taxes imposed on luxury items restrict rather than promote their widespread use. Socialism
An open class system Fashion changes flourish in the open class system that characterizes democracy Abundance A diffusion of wealth in the mass society increases consumption and greatly accelerate fashion change.
Agents Of Change
Technology Forces that shape fashion change Dominant ideals Events International relations Entertainment and the arts
Leisure Sports Education Cultural contact Youth Social agitation Emancipation of women
Communications and mass media Good economic conditions Increased competition Technological advances Social and physical mobility More leisure time Higher levels of education Changing roles of women Seasonal changes