I found something interesting to read again! The text below is a quote from an article on defining dress and fashion by Mary Ellen Roach-Higgins, Dress and Identity (1995)
"The term dress and fashion are not synonymous. Discard of a cultural form and its replacement by another is characteristic of fashion. Thus, fashion means more than dress; it also means change. In addition, it implies awareness of change by members of a collectivity. In a society where change in cultural forms; for members of the society, the collectivity, do not recognize and consciously share the experience of change, let alone promote it. One means for determining if fashion in dress exists as a concept among a group of people is to consider fashion in relation to the life span. If people in a society are generally not aware of change in form of dress during their lifetimes, fashion does not exist in society. Awareness of change is a necessary condition for fashion to exists; the retrospective view of historian does not produce fashion. It is the response of living human beings interacting within an environment in which they are able to observe changing forms of dress. Their collective recognition, acceptance, and use of particular form of dress, which they eventually replace with another form, makes it a fashion."
The images below present traditional dress and fashion.
Images: Daria Werbowy by Mario Testino Vogue UK (fashiongonerogue.com)
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