Who wears something fashionable, thus asserting his wealth and ability to participate in conspicuous consumption? Conspicuous consumption: expenditure on or consumption of luxuries on a lavish scale in an attempt to enhance one's prestige. In modern times, such consumption includes the expenditure on or wearing of expensive clothing that is artificially distressed to emulate prolonged use. Ironically, people engaging in such fashionable consumption pay higher prices to buy a clothing item that simulates heavy use due to work while the same item, when authentically distressed due to actual heavy work, on a person from a lower socio-economic background is viewed as signaling a lower-class status. Group of answer choices The European-American male The African-American male