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> wear them all the time That's kind of what fashionable means. Oxford dict: Fashionable - characteristic of, influenced by, or representing a current popula

• zokier 5y ago
  fashionable, popular, trendy, and common all mean different things even if they are somewhat interlinked concepts. High fashion then stands even more apart from the rest. I kinda like this Cambridges definition[1] of fashionable more (even if isn't perfect) > wearing clothes, doing things, and going to places that are considered stylish There is clear difference of what is considered stylish and what is popular. Macmillian[2] has even more poignant definition available: > popular with rich and successful people, and often expensive Which I might disagree on specifics, but it still carries the thought over. Fashionable is not (necessarily, or even commonly) popular with the common people, but of some sort of elite. [1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fashionable#cacd-1 https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/fashiona... [2] https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/fashionable#fashionable__5 https://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/fashi...
  • vidarh 5y ago
    The important aspect of what.you describe is that fashion is more aspirational than popular. A lot of what is "popular" is still recognized by the wearer themselves as not fashionable, and is worn despite that (and sometimes because of that) for various reasons.