Fashion and the process of change

Fashion, by definition, changes continuously. The changes may progress more quickly than in most other fields of human activity. For some, modern fast-paced changes in fashion embody many of the negative aspects of capitalism: it results in waste and encourages people qua consumers to buy things unreasonably. Others, especially young people, enjoy the diversity that changing fashion can apparently offer, seeing the constant change as a way to satisfy their wish to experience "new" and "interesting" things. Note too that fashion can change to enforce regularity, as in the case where so-called Mao suits became the national uniform of mainland China.