Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.
Thorstein VeblenWith the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.
Thorstein VeblenThere are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
Thorstein VeblenThe first duty of an editor is to gauge the sentiment of his reader, and then to tell them what they like to believe.
Thorstein Veblen