Facion Fashun

Musings on fashion trend which consists of super-hero or otherwise cartoony kids backpacks being worn by black and maybe other races which I see on my metro transit as follows:

Fashion must have some form of consciousness that it is conforming to some larger trend or it is not fashion it is individuality. I sense the conformity and connection between each user of these cartoon super-hero children's bags. A person, by herself or himself, who is reduced to by lack of means, or otherwise inclined to buy one of these cheap facilitators of transporting personal belongings (your own belongings or the belongings of others) , does not consititute fashion unless there is a connection, a thread, reaching out to all the other bags of similar style being used, usually in relatively close proximity, i.e. a metropolita.

Further, it is impossible for 'fashion' as an industry to capitalize on the 'fashion' as a consciousness unless it has existed over time and established itself in the minds of more than a few. Only then can it pick up where initial motivation and collective behavior have placed it and carry it further in similar or semi-similar form, as manufactured fashion suitable for high margins.

And here is the job of the fashion industry to take existing behavior, combined with past behavior and past forms, to bring a higher return on fabric, plastic, metal, paper, ink, and thread.