Here is Herman Dooyeweerd, on fashion, from A New Critique of Theoretical Thought, Vol. 3: The Structures of Individuality of Temporal Reality. Paideia Press, 1984 , pp. 591-593.
The integrating character of fashion. Fashion and national dress.“Fashion??? is a very interesting example of social imitation, Its proper nature asserts itself quite obviously in the horizontal inter-individual societal relations. Here fashion integrates the way in which people dress, their inter-individual behaviour in general, the choice of their recreations, etc., without uniting the individuals to a temporal societal unity. To the contrary, fashion in this sense is experienced as a dividing factor in human society. Originally it was a means used by the higher classes to distinguish themselves from the lower classes, although the latter are always eager to imitate them.
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