"[There is] an increasing insistence by the customers on using consumption to express themselves, to help in fashioning their own identities....For increasing numbers of Americans, the clothes they wear are not simply material objects; on the contrary, they are viewed...as the most basic expression of life style, indeed of identity itself."
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"Identity Crisis in the Consumer Markets", Fortune (March 10, 1971). Reported in O. W. Markley and Willis W. Harman (eds.) Changing Images of Man (Pergamon Press, 1982) ch. 3, p. 55
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Charles E. Silberman
Charles Eliot Silberman (January 31, 1925 – February 5, 2011) was an American journalist and author.
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