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Fashion victim

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to suggest that the wearer will automatically embody a personal characteristic of quality by association. Designers have identified this and in some cases are able to exploit it to the extent that prices can be escalated to surprising proportions without reference to the cost of manufacture. Extreme
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Designer labels have come to form an important part of identification of style and fashion. Many have become accustomed to the social acceptance that comes with wearing the right brands. The labels have in many cases migrated from the inside of a garment to the outside. Common examples of this type
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Fashion victims, by their characteristic inability to recognize boundaries, may aspire to the extreme end of what is available, seeking expensive products (or copies of these products), believing that the outward display of such items will draw admiration in proportion to their actual or apparent
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is an intense but short-lived fashion trend. Fads are also by their nature at the extreme range of currently acceptable style, which means they commonly cross the line from the sublime to the ridiculous. Fashion victims can be seen to have crossed this line.
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Michelle Lee notes that in order to appear casually well-dressed, shoppers pay extra for designers to "sew on decorative patches, slash gaping holes into the knees of jeans and fray the hems."
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is sometimes associated with a higher quality of manufacture and a higher price. The ownership and display of such products of quality is frequently
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Keeping up with fashion is often very expensive. Expensive clothes signal that the wearers are financially successful, but they aren't necessarily "
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cost. Because of this, "the term 'fashion victim' became the ultimate insult to the aspirational."
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that is used to identify a person who is unable to identify commonly recognized boundaries of
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Fashion Victim: Our Love-Hate Relationship with Dressing, Shopping, and the Cost of Style
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examples of this type of branding are found among accessory manufacturers such as
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victims,' & that was the first time anyone had used that expression."
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The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever
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The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever
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and Alternative Movement for Resources and Freedom Society (AMRF).
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In the Cameroonian artist Alioum Moussa's solo art exhibition
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and Oscar looked around and said, 'These people are absolute
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Fashion victims are "victims" because they are vulnerable to
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Oscar de la Renta
style
faddishness
materialism
Versace
fad
cool
Adidas
Kelme
branding
marketed
Versace
Gucci
Burberry
Chanel
Guerlain
Rolex
Bulgari
Fast fashion
Caravelle
hell
fashion
The Fashion Conspiracy
ISBN
0060958200
Fashion Victim: Our Love-Hate Relationship with Dressing, Shopping, and the Cost of Style
ISBN
1860645550
"Games of Seduction and Games of History: Alioum Moussa's Fashion Victims in Niamey, Niger"
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