From the New Yorker: Happy Feet
[http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/14/090914fa_fact_jacobs].
> At its most rarefied, shoe shopping still takes place in hushed, pastel-carpeted
salons, with salesmen
From the New York Times: Conspicuous Consumption, a Casualty of Recession
[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/10/us/10reset.html?_r=1&hp].
> “I think this economy was a good