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#065 - [ Why the Consumer is Being Ripped Off by the Fashion Industry ]
       [ xod ]


This tfile could easily be alternatively named:

'Why the fashion consicious public are idiots'

OR

'Fashion Industry: EXPOSED!'

OR

'xod is bored and filling our heads full of garbage theories'


But, it wasn't.

Why?  You may ask..

Because..  The one I chose seemed to best suit the topic.  So there..

I have come up with a flow diagram that seem's to demonstrate the
trend of 'mainstream' highstreet fashion over the past few decades.

I'll leave you with the 4-step flow diagram; you can work it out from there
i'm sure.  This diagram run's clockwise and has, and will form a continuous
circle lasting for decades..


                                (1)

                       _  'THE IN THING'  _
                      /                    \
                     /                      \
                    /                        \
                   /                          \
                                      
       (4)  'RETRO IS COOL'            'SO LAST SEASON'   (2)
                                    
                    \                        /
                     \                      /
                      \                    /
                       \_                _/
                          CONSIGNED TO  
                         GARBAGE, THRIFT
                         STORES, CHARITY.

                                (3)


There is no set time limit between stages.  Usually the difference between
steps 3 & 4 is a number of years, even a number of decades.  But it does
happen with the majority of fashions eventually.

New Becomes Old Becomes Retro Becomes Cool.

New -> Old -> Retro -> Cool (and start again)
New -> Old -> Retro -> Cool (and start again)
New -> Old -> Retro -> Cool (and start again)
New -> Old -> Retro -> Cool (and start again)


1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4.


Thats the 4 step fashion theory of retro cool.


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