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Mall windows suggest we can make ourselves into something new by buying something more. "Re-invent yourself," declared my local department store in its ad campaign. Photographs of glamorous women and men who have apparently succeeded in transforming themselves fill store windows. "Can You Afford Me?" the T-shirt on the half-reclining young woman asks, signaling both the shirt’s price and the price of passing it up. Buy the goods, adopt the look, and the glamour of mall models can be ours.