Fashions may serve a number of functions in society. Which of the following is not one of them?
a. provide relief from banality
b. provide a method of defining oneself with regard to actual or aspired status
c. increase anonymity by masking social status
d. function as a status marker
e. communicate information about one's attitudes
Ans: c
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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