Fashion as consumption culture emerged only with mass production

Evidence

First, fashion should be defined as a historically specific phenomenon. The term fashion implies a particular phase in the history of clothing and a shift from an idea of clothing as determined primarily by larger constraints of necessity and fixed social status to a more open version of clothing as also a display of individual consumption. When examining this shift, it is important to distinguish between clothing and fashion. The history of costume is as long as written history itself. The story of fashion, on the other hand, is a more recent phenomenon. Fashion implies a culture of consumption which develops only with the rise of mass production. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2838

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the clothing-versus-fashion distinction central to the chapter.