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The **Fashionable Edge** is where we dip our toes into the newest social patterns: recently emerged sentiments, fashion, and social signals that aren't mainstream but not too risky. Celebrities, social influencers, artists, progressive brands, teenagers, and other early social adopters endorse them as the next fashion, and aspects of them slowly permeate the mainstream. For a picture of this process, see *[a path from relational order to chaos](/essays/a-path-from-relational-order-to-chaos/index.md).*

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