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On 10 July 1964, fashion history remembers Mary Quant’s role in transforming the way a generation dressed, as the miniskirt emerged as one of the defining symbols of 1960s Britain. More than a new…
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Why does buying clothes make us happy?
There is an idea that we have normalized to the point of not seeing it: that happiness can be bought. And we are not talking about that one-
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