Bugmaster comments on A Rational Approach to Fashion - Less Wrong

19 Post author: lionhearted 10 October 2011 06:53PM

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Comment author: Bugmaster 28 October 2011 06:27:37PM 2 points [-]

There are some pretty serious constraints that limit fashion: physical, such as the tensile strength of the fabrics, available colors, etc.; social, such as our nudity taboos; as well as functional, such as ease of use and mobility (f.ex., you're not going to wear a wedding gown every day, since they are too unwieldy).

Given these constraints, is it really possible to come up with 10 billion non-trivial styles ?

Comment author: Armok_GoB 28 October 2011 07:38:08PM 2 points [-]

I have no idea, but it's exactly the right question to ask.