Such trivial things are usually not something I would write about, but heck, it's early, and I have not a thing in the world better to do.
I find the notion that style and fashion is elusive or elite to be very childish and (like some, but not all childish things) stupid. Now if your idea of fashion is something that only you personally can attain, or involves large sums of money, perhaps your correct, in your own narrow definition.
Last I checked things have a lot to do with their objectives. For example, a car's quality is based on how efficiently it gets you from one place to another, or for someome with low self esteem, how fast it accelerates, etc. So if you have a notion that fashion is elite, it stands to reason that you think so because you need to separate yourself from others. You are not correct, you are clutching at a childish comfort.
For most of us, fashion is simply this: managing to be unique enough to draw attention, without being quite so unique as to draw silly questions and detract from our overall personality. This offers a similar result to being attractive, you draw people too you because you stand out, but after that it's up to you.
Beyond this of course, there are those who chose to dress in rather peculiar manners such as cat ears, or transparent shirts, or with colours you would never expect to see on a certain gender or with each other. This is more an expression of personality then fashion. It screams "I am unique and comfortable being viewed as quirky" not "I am trendy" and at the point that those two lines are blurred we end up with Fashion Television and people arguing about "fashion sense". Ick.
