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is the most intense expression of capitalist 'neomania'. Fashion is when the purchase of a new garment does not coincide with the wearing-out of the old one. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.

Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value. If the purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion. If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.

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