The history of clothing practices provides guidance for fashioning a new ethic that emphasizes quality over quantity, longevity over novelty, and versatility over specialization. With such an ethic, consumers would demand a shift toward more timeless design, away from fast-moving… — Juliet B. Schor Copy Share Image
Striving for longevity through versatility facilitates what we might call an ecological or true materialism. ... we are not truly materialist because we fail to invest deep or sacred meanings in material goods. Instead, our materialism connotes an unbounded desire… — Juliet B. Schor Copy Share Image
We are social animals and we have a hierarachical and unequal society. It is a class society, and the class system creates and perpetuates… — Juliet B. Schor Copy Share Image
The history of clothing practices provides guidance for fashioning a new ethic that emphasizes quality over quantity, longevity over novelty, and versatility over specialization.… — Juliet B. Schor Copy Share Image
Striving for longevity through versatility facilitates what we might call an ecological or true materialism. ... we are not truly materialist because we fail… — Juliet B. Schor Copy Share Image
