Abstract
This paper proposes a comparative analysis about two fashion moments in clothing. The first refers to the theories that initially understood the phenomenon of fashion as a symbolic hierarchy between classes that dictate and classes that copy fashion. This analytical perspective has explained fashion since its emergence in the West until the mid-twentieth century. The second moment deals with the plural modes of the present time which, it is believed, can no longer be explained by this first theoretical scenario. The research sought to highlight regularities and singularities between the different fashion contexts, examining the extent to which the analytic proposal of the symbolic hierarchy still explains contemporary fashions and in which aspects today’s plural fashions differ in their renewal movement.
Keywords
Fashion; society; history; symbolic hierarchy; pluralism