what is the real difference between fashion and style?

Fashion is the relationship to the external.Dictionary.com defines ‘fashion’ as:
  • A prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
  • Conventional usage in dress, manners, etc., especially of polite society, or conformity to it: the dictates of fashion; to be out of fashion.
  • Manner; way; mode: in a warlike fashion.
  • The make or form of anything: He liked the fashion of the simple, sturdy furniture.

Style is the relationship to the internal.Dictionary.com defines ‘style’ as:
  • A particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character: the baroque style: The style of the house was too austere for their liking.
  • A particular, distinctive, or characteristic mode of action or manner of acting: They do these things in a grand style.
  • A mode of living, as with respect to expense or display.
  • An elegant, fashionable, or luxurious mode of living: to live in style.
  • A mode of fashion, as in dress, especially good or approved fashion; elegance; smartness.
  • The mode of expressing thought in writing or speaking by selecting and arranging words, considered with respect to clearness, effectiveness, euphony, or the like, that is characteristic of a group, period, person, personality, etc.: to write in the style of Faulkner; a familiar style; a pompous, pedantic style.

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