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    Bubble-Up Effects of Subculture Fashion.20120924.161844

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    Fashion trends often originate from subcultures and diffuse more broadly into mass culture over time through a "bubble-up" process. As fashion spreads from smaller to larger groups, the original meanings can become diluted or lost. For example, ripped jeans may no longer reference the counterculture origins. Street fashion is an important indicator of this diffusion, as unconventional styles first seen on the streets can later be incorporated by high fashion designers. However, some argue that widespread commercial adoption dilutes the original symbolic meaning of subcultural styles.

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    Fashion trends often originate from subcultures and diffuse more broadly into mass culture over time through a "bubble-up" process. As fashion spreads from smaller to larger groups, the original meanings can become diluted or lost. For example, ripped jeans may no longer reference the counterculture origins. Street fashion is an important indicator of this diffusion, as unconventional styles first seen on the streets can later be incorporated by high fashion designers. However, some argue that widespread commercial adoption dilutes the original symbolic meaning of subcultural styles.

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    Fashion trends often originate from subcultures and diffuse more broadly into mass culture over time through a "bubble-up" process. As fashion spreads from smaller to larger groups, the original meanings can become diluted or lost. For example, ripped jeans may no longer reference the counterculture origins. Street fashion is an important indicator of this diffusion, as unconventional styles first seen on the streets can later be incorporated by high fashion designers. However, some argue that widespread commercial adoption dilutes the original symbolic meaning of subcultural styles.

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    Bubble-Up Effects of Subculture Fashion

    Fashion diffusion concentrates on the individual plus the crowd, especially in this case the spreading of manner in a systematic method from little measure to big measure institutions. It highlights the idea which manner innovation and also creativity drawn from subcultures are really integrated back into mass culture. Within the process, non-conformist fashion may be subject to defusion, a diluting associated with the fundamental intrinsic intending associated with the original subculture. The commercialisation of manner is especially central to the risk of decontextualisation of trend origins. For example, the wearing of ripped trousers, a great accepted form of attire today, does not automatically relate to the image of 'hippies' in contemporary times. The idea of identity as well as its modifications as well as transformations soon after a period of time must be carefully considered. Analysis of street design is another fundamental aspect in determining the extent of the bubble-up effect in manner. It happens to be a tip which opposes the see which high fashion has given method to popular culture. Polhemus proposed that "designs which begin life on the street corner have a way of ending up in the backs of top models upon the world's many prestigious manner catwalks". Past to this brand-new train of thought, the predominant view was actually that new looks set about along with couture and additionally 'trickle down' to the mass market mainline fashion industry. Polhemus recommended that the evidence he found gave insight to a chain of events; initially genuine street creativity appears, followed by the featuring in mass media, including magazines or tvs programmes, of street children. In time, the ritzy adaptation associated with the original tip makes some kind of presentation, because a part of an top designer's collection. Polhemus identified couple basic street-styles involving dressing up or perhaps dressing down. Those from a reasonably affluent sector of society, for example the Beatniks as well as Hippies developed a penchant for the latter, preferring to descend down the socioeconomic ladder in the interest of authenticity. Today, the wide array of attire seen on streets as well as nightclubs program that culture is not any longer just a prerogative of the upper class. Though, the creatively democratic society which you progress towards optimizes fashion invention, cynics of the bubble-up effect, such as Johnny Stuart, condemned in his book upon rockers, "the fancy fashionable versions associated with the Perfecto that you see every one of the over the place, dilute the importance, taking away its original magic, castrating it". Public crises associated with the 1950s as well as 1970s brought about new ideological constructions in reaction to the worsening economy, scarcity of jobs, reduction of community, and also the failure of consumerism to satisfy real requirements. Racism turned into a solution to the problems of working-class life. Such periods of personal turmoil lead to manner defusion, with numerous subcultures becoming increasingly detached off their foundation symbolisms. The connotations of the attire of the teddy boys during the course of the 1970s bore few resemblance to the style of 1956. The original narcissistic upper-class style was somewhat irrevocably lost in a wave of '2nd age bracket teds' that preferred fidelity to the classic 'bad-boy' stereotypes. The idea of specificity, subcultures responding to circumstances at distinctive moments in history, is depicted because vital to the research of

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