It's also interesting to consider where the associations with certain clothes comes from, and who is controlling/trying to control these associations. Not to say that there aren't some innate associations that come with being a human and our upbringings, but that if the associations can be at least partially learned than there are definitely folks trying to teach them.

Also, stealing a bit from Baudrillard, the idea of a feedback loop regarding the media representing culture, culture representing media, and so on and so on...