Fashion Cycle Stages
This is the stage when trendsetters create a "buzz" within an exclusive circle.
What is the Introduction Stage?
True or False: Fashion is based on price.
What is False?
This is the largest shoe producer in the United States today.
What is Nike?
Name one social media platform where fashion trends commonly start or go viral.
What is TikTok, Instagram, Pinterest, or YouTube?
Compared to other fashion industries, the US industry for this accessory is relatively small.
What is the handbag industry?
During this stage, the trend gains momentum, attracts early adopters, and emerges on retail store racks.
What is the Rise Stage?
This group establishes fashions by accepting or rejecting the styles offered.
Who are consumers?
Name three of the five main fashion accessory categories.
What are footwear, handbags, eyewear, jewelry, and watches?
Name one current fashion trend you've seen on social media recently.
Accept any reasonable current trend: baggy jeans, clean girl aesthetic, cottage core, Y2K fashion, athleisure, etc.
Nike acts like this type of business, focusing on marketing its products rather than manufacturing.
What is a wholesaler?
In this stage, popularity peaks but trendsetters distance themselves because the trend has become too "mainstream."
What is the Decline Stage?
Fashion is this type of expression that documents the tastes and values of an era.
What is a social expression (or mirror of the times)?
People are becoming more aware of protecting their eyes from the sun's harmful rays, making this accessory both fashionable and functional.
What are sunglasses (or eyewear)?
This type of fashion item remains popular year after year and never goes out of style.
What is a classic?
All fashions end in this, according to the fashion principles.
What is excess?
This final stage occurs when no one is buying, the trend is deemed unfashionable and outdated, and the fashion world rejects it.
What is the Obsolescence Stage?
Fashions are this in nature; they are rarely revolutionary.
What is evolutionary?
These three types of jewelry were mentioned in the lesson.
What are fine jewelry, costume jewelry, and ethnic jewelry?
These are fashion trends that become popular very, have high sales and fade out just as fast.
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Name all five stages of the fashion cycle in order.
What are Introduction, Rise, Culmination, Decline, and Obsolescence?
At this peak stage, everyday consumers embrace the trend and fashion followers purchase from moderate-priced departments.
What is the Culmination Stage?
Fashion changes because ideas about these things change. Name at least three.
What are politics, religion, leisure, democracy, success, and/or age?
Name all four fashion accessory functions?
What is practical use, comfort & protection, identity & status, and fashion impact?
This refers to a trend that designers or brands tried to make popular, but consumers rejected it.
What is a flop?
Accessory makers always have to keep up with these so their products match the latest styles.
What are changing fashion trends?