There are many factors that contribute to the difussion of clothing, televison and internet in popular culture today.

For clothing some of the factors attributed to the diffusion of clothing includes, one’s occupation (attire of lawyer or factory worker), income (certain styles created by clothing designers), and communication (allows for the difussion of clothing styles from one region to another).

According Encycleopedia Britannica, the adoption of foreign elements has been a constant theme in the history of dress, and it too dates to antiquity. The first exotic fabric to reach the West was silk from China, which the Persians introduced to the Greeks and Romans and which has remained popular to the present.