fashion test 2

Body image

A persons perceptions, thoughts, and feelings about their body

Historic continuity theory

Fashion will change over seasons until it’s reached its maximum and reverse order until it reaches its minimum

Symbolic interaction theory

Bridge between individual and society

Aesthetic perception and learning

People need to learn to appreciate and understand beauty

Formal qualities

Elements and principles of design

Expressive qualities

Emotions associated with wearing an appeal product

Symbolic qualities

Meanings associated with the apparel product

Society

Grouping of people together by some common trait

Habitus

Learned behaviour that indicates appropriateness

Taste

Matter of aesthetic liking

Scarcity/rarity

Exclusive, unusual, different

Veblen effect

More people purchase a product as price increases

Snob effect

Preference for a product of increases when supply becomes limited

Bandwagon effect

Preference increases as more people adopt product

Trickle down theory

Lower class copied upper class styles

Trickle up theory

Upper class copied styles of lower class

Conspicuous consumption

Purchasing products that obviously display status or wealth

Status consumption

Purchasing products that assist with group acceptance

Invidious consumption

Making purchases for the sake of invoking envy in others

Inconspicuous consumption

Wearing clothes that do not obviously display the cost

Social identity theory

One’s sense of self is dependent upon one’s social groups

Intersectionality

People have multiple identities that interact with each other

Style-fashion-dress

One of the ways in which groups of people establish a social identity

Rubbish theory

Objects in western culture are either durable or transient

Durable goods

Items that hold longevity and value

Transient goods

Items that do not hold value and have a short lifespan

Consumer demand model

When prices are high there is little demand for object being offered but as price decreases the demand increases

Androgyny

Blending both feminine and masculine

Adoption and diffusion model

System of communicating fashion trends that divides the process into innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, laggards

Fashion communicators

Innovators (2.5%) and early adopters (13%) in the adoption and diffusion model

Fashion leaders

Early majority (34%)

Fashion followers

Late majority (34%)

Public, private, secret self model

Taxonomy for categorizing different types of dress at different levels of expression

Anticipatory socialization

Dressing for a realistic job you hope to hold one day

Fantastic socialization

Dressing for an unrealistic imaginary job like a stormtrooper

Reality dress

Wearing realistic attire related to one’s gender, work, hobbies

Fun/leisure dress

Dress worn out of work for dating, exercise, sporting

Fantasy dress

Dressing in an escapist way. May include costumes or sexual fantasies

Upwards comparison

Comparing to someone considered better which leads to lower self esteem

Downwards comparison

Comparing to someone considered worse which leads to higher self esteem

Appearance management behaviours

The process people take to create an appearance

Routine appearance management behaviours

Frequent procedures that carry no health risk such as doing makeup or exercising

Non routine appearance management behaviours

Happens less frequently and involve risk or pain such as tattooing, chronic dieting, plastic surgery

Gestalt

Psychological concept of how the mind automatically and unconsciously organizes information

Wu xing

What Chinese aesthetics are based on. Also known as the five element theory (wood, fire, earth, metal, water)

Theory of shifting erogenous zones

Shifting which eroticized part of the body will be exposed

Ambivalence

Feeling of being conflicted or drawn in multiple directions

Ambiguity

State of having multiple interpretations or meanings

Sumptuary laws

Old laws a ruler would enact that restricted the use of certain fabrics, materials, or adornments according to class

Fetish

An object believed to have supernatural or mystical power such as holy water or voodoo dolls

Commodity fetishism

Commodities are given perceived value and social relationships are based on the perceived value of cost of their commodities

Conspicuous counterconsumption/ parody display

Avoiding symbols or mocking them such as wearing torn or unbranded clothing

Imitation/differentiation or chase and flight

Different names for the trickle down theory