Many cultural traits exhibit volatile dynamics, commonly dubbed fashions or fads. Here we show that realistic fashion-like dynamics emerge spontaneously if individuals can copy others' preferences for cultural traits as well as traits themselves. We demonstrate this dynamics in simple mathematical models of the diffusion, and subsequent abandonment, of a single cultural trait which individuals ...

We propose a method to try to model fashionable dresses in this paper. We first discover common visual patterns that appear in dress images using a human-in-the-loop, active clustering approach. A fashionable dress is expected to contain certain visual patterns which make it fashionable. An approach is proposed to jointly identify fashionable visual patterns and learn a discriminative fashion c...

Though elevated to the dignity of book-form this reprint of Dr. Hare's address to the Metropolitan Counties Branch of the British Medical Association would, in respect of quantity, more fittingly have been issued as a brochure. But, voluminous though it be not, it yet affords food for reflection upon the mutability of fashion in medical treatment. Dr. Hare's experience and knowledge are extensi...

Although elite styles are important to the formation of generalised dress styling trends, the elite fashions that appear in the mass media are inaccessible to most consumers. When people buy new mass produced clothing, they choose necessarily from the limited range of styles available in nearby retail stores that are also within their income-based price threshold. In turn, the styles available ...