I'd appreciate it if you could help me with the sentence sentence.
"Many people say they don’t care about fashion, yet they still want to wear clothing that is appropriate to their social, sexual, athletic, or professional roles. As awareness of clothing as a form of social communication increases, interest in clothing has shifted from a concern with beauty to a concern with influencing others, or strategy."
Could you tell me if "interest" and "concern" are synonymous in the second sentence? If this is correct, "a concern with beauty" is almost the same as "interest in beauty"? Or should I think that these two nouns are similar but different in nuance?
Could you also tell me whether "a concern with influencing others, or strategy" means " a concern with infLuencing others, or a concern with strategy, " meaning that "influencing others" is paraphrased by "strategy"?
Thank you very much.
Takashi