Anthropological perspective

Anthropological perspective

A certain way is chosen and that become the  fashion as defined by a certain people as a whole, so if a particular style has a meaning in an already occurring set of beliefs that style will become fashion. Through the capitalization and commodification of cloth, accessories, and shoes, etc, what once constituted anti fashion become part of fashion ass the line between fashion and anti fashion are blurred. Fashion changes very quickly and is not affiliated with one group or area of the world but is spread out throughout the world wherever people can communicate easily with each other.

Time is expressed in terms of continuity in anti fashion and as change in fashion. Fashion has change modes of adornment. Indigenous and peasant modes of adornment are an example of anti fashion. People work long hours in one area of the globe to produce things that people in another part of the globe are anxious to consume. In the past, women produced the textile either for home consumption or to trade with other. Today this has change as most textiles are not being produced at home.

This trend is also being follow by the general populace, and whoever can afford to hire a tailor is doing so to stitchtraditional textiles into Western cloth. There is also a booming tourist trade in the eastern Indonesia city of  Pang  where international as well as domestic tourist are eager to purchase traditionally printed Western goods.

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