Buckle up, everyone; this post is going to be a long one. Today, I wanted to discuss the matter of conspicuous consumption: the art of spending relatively large sums of money on luxury goods. When you ...

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Last week, people at Target nearly bloodied each other as they fought to get one of the new, special-edition Valentine's Day cups from Stanley, a company known for its TikTok-famous tumblers. Stanley ...

CHICAGO - Cecilia Dames, an expat Midwesterner who has lived in Europe for the past 17 years, noticed it when she returned to St. Louis for a recent family visit. "Conspicuous consumption is out," she ...

Here comes the bride — and her 30-carat ring, A-list besties, and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of outfits. This summer's billionaire weddings have shown that quiet luxury is out, and ...

THE first real casualty of the current recession may well be the middle-priced automobile. For years it not only provided transportation for the middle class but was a firm steppingstone on the ...

Coming up for air : consumer culture in historical perspective / Jean-Christopher Agnew -- Understanding traditional and modern patterns of consumption in eighteenth-century England : a ...

The original poster child for the vice of vanity is a mythological Greek youth by the name of Narcissus. He was an incredibly beautiful young man, but he was not conscious of this fact, having grown ...