Also a fantastic point, what do we mean when we say ‘never change’ ? I think it was a bit near sighted for the book to use a fashion example, albeit a fashion example that had, at the time, been around for hundreds of years prior, but even 100 years later through its own mistakes the book is ironically teaching a whole new set of lessons through a retrospective lens. The lesson it’s teaching by being wrong is arguably more meaningful than the lesson it was trying to teach at the time of writing.