The most ludicrous fashion-Fads and formality at Court

2008-07-18 » In the Court, with its finely structured hierarchy, the forces of fashion as described by such theorists as Georg Simmel, Herbert Spencer and the economist Thorstein Veblen, arose from competitiveness and the need to maintain a rigid class structure. 'Fashion is basically an emulation of prestige groups,' claims Simmel or, [...]