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(Valders 1857 – 1929)
American economist who in his famous “Theory of the leisure class” (1899) in his considerations dedicated to fashion and clothing stresses on one side that:
“The expenditure for self display is more obviously present and is perhaps more universally practised in the matter of dress than in any other line of 
consumption” (Veblen, 1899; cpt 7, Dress as an expression of the Pecuniary Culture)
On the other that:
“..the goods used for clothing in any modern community are made up to a much larger extent of the fashionableness, the reputability of the goods than of the mechanical service which they render in clothing the person of the wearer”.
For such a reason he defines the need of dress as:
“Eminently a higher”, a spiritual need.
