Dress must not only be conspicuously expensive and inconvenient, it must at the same time be up to date.

No explanation at all satisfactory has hitherto been offered of the phenomenon of changing fashions.

The imperative requirement of dressing in the latest accredited manner, as well as the fact that this accredited fashion constantly changes from season to season, is sufficiently familiar to every one, but the theory of this flux and change has not been worked out.

We may of course say, with perfect consistency and truthfulness, that this principle of novelty is another corollary under the law of conspicuous waste.

Obviously, if each garment is permitted to serve for but a brief term, and if none of last season's apparel is carried over and made further use of during the present season, the wasteful expenditure on dress is greatly increased.