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sumptuary (en)

(adjective) relating to personal expenditures and especially to prevent extravagance and luxury / (adjective) designed to regulate extravagant expenditures or habits especially on moral or religious grounds / sumptuary law = law restricting consumption (notable during middle ages)

The Baffler Issue 54: ReGlobalization
by The Baffler (editor)

The Baffler Issue 54: ReGlobalization
by The Baffler (editor)

The Baffler Issue 54: ReGlobalization
by The Baffler (editor)


badly designed American sportswear made by East Asian factory workers is the uniform of the urban poor, a surer class marker than anything mandated by Medieval sumptuary laws.

—p.56 The Prosperity Hoax (52) missing author
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