Style versus Fashion
How Determined AN American writer differentiates between Style and Fashion. Style, he states, can refer to any period, but Fashion is only that which is being worn by the majority at the moment, In New York fashion reporters are now sent out with counting machines to gauge the popularity of any particular style, according to the number in which it is being worn or used. A young woman dashing between automobiles in the middle of the city at the right time may be unconsciously adding to the statistics on what is being worn at the moment. A firm of fashion advisers will send one reporter to a fashionable restaurant, another to the races, another to meet a liner arriving from Burope, and another to a popular seaside resort with the object of noting which are the most popular styles. Men’s fashion reporters keep a watchful eye on sports gatherings, college functions, first nights at the theaire, and so on,
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Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 31, 14 February 1930, Page 27
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162Style versus Fashion Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 31, 14 February 1930, Page 27
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