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Released: August 01, 2010

Teen ‘haulers’ become a fashion force

Source: Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times (Free Registration)

When 14-year-old Bethany Mota gets back from the mall, she eagerly models her latest finds for friends and family.

And for tens of thousands more on YouTube.

The rising high school sophomore from Los Banos, Calif., is a “hauler,” a term for tech-savvy young fashionistas who show off their purchases, or hauls, in homemade videos that they post online.

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