[mumblemumble]

This seems to go right back to the grandparent post's closing sentence:

> But, until people get past fashion, I can't expect this will happen.

[magduf]

People are never going to "get past fashion". People who have any money at all have been worried about fashion for millennia now. The only people who didn't were people too poor to do anything but worry about keeping themselves clothed with whatever they could find.