Conclusion: How to Shop with the Past, Present, and Future in Mind.

1. Alison Lurie, The Language of Clothes (New York: Henry Holt, 2000), 5.

2. Ibid., 34.

3. Leopoldina Fortunati, “Wearable Technology,” in Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, vol. 10, Global Perspectives.

4. Linda Grant, The Thoughtful Dresser: The Art of Adornment, the Pleasures of Shopping, and Why Clothes Matter (New York: Scribner, 2010), 10.

5. Quentin Bell, On Human Finery, rev. ed. (London: Hogarth Press, 1976), 21–22, quoting Isaiah 3:16–24.

6. Jan Glier Reeder, High Style: Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2010), 220.