9 unlikely items that have become luxury status symbols
recently chronicled the rise of fancy water bottles as a 21st-century status symbol among millennials — think S'well bottles for around $50 or VitaJuwel bottles for around $100.
"On the surface, water bottles as totems of consumer aspiration sound absurd: If you have access to water, you can drink it out of so many things that already exist in your home," Mull wrote."But if you dig a little deeper, you find that these bottles sit at a crossroads of cultural and economic forces that shape Americans' lives far beyond beverage choices.
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