At What Cost Comparisons of Designer and Mass-Market Clothes Help Consumers Navigate Subtleties beyond Just the Bottom Line
Ian Zander,, The Christian Science Monitor
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Article title: At What Cost Comparisons of Designer and Mass-Market Clothes Help Consumers Navigate Subtleties beyond Just the Bottom Line.
Contributors: Ian Zander, - Author.
Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor.
Publication date: August 17, 1995.
Page number: 10.
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