Fair points, and I agree, Eli. Humans have not stopped being human. And of course there will always be variation, thank goodness. It's the social contagion point on which we continue to agree. Part of my point is that fashion often, perhaps usually, doesn't age well.
edited to correct my oversight by replacing "the" for "that", right before "social".
It doesn't age well, that's true, and especially so for trends that deviate further from the norm. The silver lining, I suppose, is that by definition any fashion will also inevitably become outmoded. I think of the toupee or the push-up bra. Both require trading a measure of dishonesty for vanity and/or social currency.
Fair points, and I agree, Eli. Humans have not stopped being human. And of course there will always be variation, thank goodness. It's the social contagion point on which we continue to agree. Part of my point is that fashion often, perhaps usually, doesn't age well.
edited to correct my oversight by replacing "the" for "that", right before "social".
It doesn't age well, that's true, and especially so for trends that deviate further from the norm. The silver lining, I suppose, is that by definition any fashion will also inevitably become outmoded. I think of the toupee or the push-up bra. Both require trading a measure of dishonesty for vanity and/or social currency.