Subcultures reversed cultural flows by reversing the trickle-down of style

Evidence

In a world where subcultural capital takes on cachet, the rich consciously borrow ideas from poorer groups. Furthermore, bricolage is no longer a junkyard approach to personal style—everyone now mixes and matches. In the end, subcultural groups were perhaps an avant-garde of persona crafting, the earliest adopters of the now common practice of inventing and performing strange characters as an effective means of status distinction. — W. David Marx, Status and Culture, 455

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Radical styles are stripped of transgression before mainstream diffusion — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 441; Marginalized subcultures fuel mainstream cultural innovation, not the reverse — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 860; Fashion diffusion works through upper-class innovation followed by lower-class imitation and upper-class retreat — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 717

Broader Connections

• Marginalized subcultures fuel mainstream cultural innovation, not the reverse #corroborates (0.92) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 860
• Fashion diffusion works through upper-class innovation followed by lower-class imitation and upper-class retreat #contradicts (0.90) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 717