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Fashion is a form of imitation and so of social equalization, but, paradoxically, in changing it differentiates one time from another and one social stratum from another. It unites those class and segregates them from others. The elite initiates a fashion and, when the mass imitates effort to obliterate the external distinctions of class, abandons it for a newer mode-a process that with the increase of wealth. Fashion does not exist in tribal and classless societies. It concerns and superficialities where irrationality does no harm. It signalizes the lack of personal freedom; characterizes the female and the middle class, whose increased social freedom is matched by dividual subjugation. Some forms are intrinsically more suited to the modifications of fashion the internal unity of the forms called "classic" makes them immune
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