i get what the industrial era is interms of factories...and whatever...but what do the 'fashions' look like?...and especially the accessories?...
i think of industrial as the 30's/40's in the US...world warI i guess...
1890's ?..isn't that high collars and long skirts...is it cameos?...shawlsa?....
wasn't that a mix of cars and horse and buggy still...?
oh, i agree that the masses catch on much faster than before lena...no question...but i still see a lag time...but you know the US in general has never been especially fashion forward...so maybe they take longer than some other places to try new things and to experiment...i think teenagers are the most experimental and the most open to new trends...but that's probably true everywhere...but most americans dress pretty conservatively...and more for practicality than for fashion...
for example..you know those tunic style tops so many of us have been wearing...from thailand and such?...well...old navy (huge US mass market chain) is seriously promoting them as 'the hot thing' for summer...i got sick of mine at least a year ago (probably longer than that)...same thing with babydoll or 'empire' waist tops...i used to have to search high and low for this style..but now it's pretty much mainstream...but this is at least 2 years or more since i got my empire ysl top...and my babydoll balenciaga...
h&m and zara might have all the designer knock offs...but h&m and zara are only in major cities...old navy is EVERYWHERE!!!...
....and this country is HUGE...it's easy to foget how big it is really...it takes awhile for trends to reach the middle states and become absorbed...but those are the 'masses'...at least for us in the US...
like with the pashmina...everyone in ny had a pashmina...about a year later...my relatives who live in the suburbs were all wanting a pashmina...they are behind us by about a year...and they don't live more than an hour or two from manhattan...it's interesting...i've been keeping track..and it's usually about a year behind i think...maybe 2 yrs if you're further away from either coast...