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a culture of conspicuous consumption
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By resisting the tariff, women like Mrs. Astor showed that their consumer practices were not frivolous indulgences in conspicuous consumption, but choices interwoven in the debates of the day with major implications for the economy and the political system.
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Einav Rabinovitch-Fox / Made By History, TIME, 7 Jan. 2025
Buy Now: $15 Human Finery by Quentin Bell Bell, who was Virginia Woolf’s nephew and who taught for many years as professor of History and Theory of Art at Sussex University, develops his theory of fashion starting from Thorstein Veblen’s categories of conspicuous consumption.
—Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 4 Dec. 2024
Instead, the discourse fixates on what amounts to a form of conspicuous consumption.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
They are increasingly attracted to authenticity—real books, vinyl records, denim—and seem to have a disdain for conspicuous consumption.
—Greg Petro, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
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Einav Rabinovitch-Fox / Made By History, TIME, 7 Jan. 2025
Buy Now: $15 Human Finery by Quentin Bell Bell, who was Virginia Woolf’s nephew and who taught for many years as professor of History and Theory of Art at Sussex University, develops his theory of fashion starting from Thorstein Veblen’s categories of conspicuous consumption.
—Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 4 Dec. 2024
Instead, the discourse fixates on what amounts to a form of conspicuous consumption.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2024
They are increasingly attracted to authenticity—real books, vinyl records, denim—and seem to have a disdain for conspicuous consumption.
—Greg Petro, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
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“Conspicuous consumption.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/conspicuous%20consumption. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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