This resurgence was featured as a prominent example in Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point. In 1994, when sales of Hush Puppies were down to 30000 pairs a...
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The premise of the book is that social epidemics have a tipping point, a moment where they go from marginal obscurity to intense popularity. The book uses examples like Hush Puppies, AIDS, and smoking but I think there's definitely a correlation to food.
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Don't get Duncan Watts started on the Hush Puppies. "Oh, God," he groans when the subject comes up. "Not them." The Hush Puppies in question are the ones that kick off The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell's best-seller about how trends work.
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The "tipping point" (not a new phrase) occurs when something that began small (e.g., a few funky kids in New York's East Village wearing Hush Puppies) turns into something very large indeed (millions of Hush Puppies are sold).
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The story of Hush Puppies illustrates the central argument of Malcolm Gladwell's book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference...
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Even minute changes in the environment can play a major factor in the propensity of a given concept attaining the tipping point. Gladwell begins by discussing the inexplicable resurgence of then-terminally-uncool Hush Puppies shoes among a handful of hipsters in Manhattan’s cutting-edge enclaves in the 1990s,
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www.wikisummaries.org/The_Tipping_Point
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The Tipping Point - How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference - by Malcolm Gladwell, Little, Brown and Company, New York - Boston, © 2000, 2002 by Malcolm Gladwell, 301 pp, PB $15, Time Warner AudioBook, © 2005, 3 CDs, 3 hours, $24, read by the author. The Tipping Point For Hush Puppies -
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They propagate in a more or less steady fashion until they reach a "tipping point." Then, Hush Puppies suddenly become hip, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood rockets to bestsellerdom, crime in New York City plummets.
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www.slate.com/id/2000154/entry/1004825/
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In Malcolm Gladwell's book, The Tipping Point, he describes the conditions that are necessary to transform Hush Puppies from the old school to new cool. "The world of the tipping point is a place where the unexpected becomes expected, where radical change is more than a possibility," he argues.
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