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The End Of The Joneses?

shoppingKev wrote: Do we really all have the new sensibility now? Are the Jones’ out of fashion or out of style for good? I think the American consumer will come back, though never as bold as we were – at least not for a while.

I for one think thrift is going to be hip for a while.  Just check out the style section of yesterday’s New York Times where there was a story about how less expensive labels like Ann Taylor, Talbot’s, Isaac Mizrahi’s new Liz Claiborne line for Macy’s have become suddenly alluring to the Prada shopper.   And the story in today’s WSJ about the slowdown in global consumerism.

Are you actively shopping less?  Because you want to?  Because you have to?  Lemme know….

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