Fashion - The Social Phenomena
Fashions are social phenomena that can be found across a wide range of human activity and thought. Fashion houses and their associated fashion designers, as well as high-status consumers (including celebrities), appear to play a role in shaping the rates and directions of change in fashion. Fashion is in the sky and on the street; fashion is about ideas, how we live, and what is going on. Fashion is a field dominated by women and designed primarily for women's needs. Fashion The "Steinkirk" cravat or necktie is an example of men's fashions taken mostly from military models, and alterations in a European male silhouette were galvanized in European war theaters where gentleman officers had opportunities to take notes on foreign designs. The pace of change picked up in the 1780s with the increased publication of French engravings that showed the latest Paris styles; though there had been distribution of dressing dolls from France as patterns since the sixteenth centur...