Do you care about name brand fashion?

[nellanella]

Like Nike, Adidas, Louis V-something, Balenciaga, some obscure expensive Japanese brand, etc.

Can you also share why you do/don't?


Bonus question: Do you buy/use fake name brand fashion? Do you care that they're fake?

[Fajita Jim]

Just so my fellow Americans know, it's pronounced:
Adi
Das

[Xautos]

I avoid branded fashion because brands usually have poorly made products and the only reason it's so expensive is because of the logo on the clothing item, not because of the item itself. 8/10 unbranded items that are of a really good quality can last a long time, a lot more than branded stuff. unbranded is also a lot cheaper, even the more expensive unbranded with the premium materials and really great quality of the clothing item is cheaper than a typical low end branded clothing choice.

[metamec]

We're hitting on some differences here which underscore how not all recognisable brands are the same.

Adidas (sport) is in a different league to Versace (luxury) which is in a different league to Hermes (exclusivity), for example. Personally I won't buy anything that turns me into an advertisement, but I don't think there's any doubt that in the luxury-to-exclusivity end of the market, materials and craftsmanship tend to be better.

[90054321564584560]

No. It is clothes and all will be worm out in the future. No need to spend extra

[Masque]

Escrito originalmente por Fajita Jim:

Just so my fellow Americans know, it's pronounced:
Adi
Das

Ooh, now do "Jaguar".

Is it actually Jag You Are?

LOL

[Pocahawtness]

People who buy it often just buy it for the name, which tells me that they have no real appreciation of what they are buying.

[Adversary]

This is what I think of Adidas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiFBgtgUtfw

[VoxxysTale]

Never cared. I buy what I like. I still follow some women's fashion[floradress.com] blogs where I can get tips on what to wear though.

[Esoteric]

Nope.

[FafnirChaos]

Depends - if they make good quality items, I'll get them.

I bought a 100 dollar pair of pants that was fire resistant(while some others will pay 120 for jeans with rips in them)

[Li77lehorn]

No and I generally think it's shallow to care about it.

I hardly ever buy clothes. Last year I bought a $4 t-shirt from k-mart to last me the year(well three of the same thing). Most of my clothes are very old but still in good enough condition. The shorts I'm wearing now are about 10yrs old. And I still even use the same belt I've had since high school, and that was a hand me down from my dad. lol. And I'm not far off turning 50. So it's lasted my life.

*I think when you are younger you might care more than when you are older.

*I had a laugh about this today.. I've spent about $3000 on my garden this season and only $35 this year on a new pair of shorts today.

[TheHogfather]

Idk about fashion, but the idea of coveting footwear has always come off as pathetic to me

[Daenoxiis]

Not really, no.
I work in the second market, so I only care enough to do my job.
As far as me buying clothes though?

I buy cheap 3-packs of solids, usually greys and blacks.
Or I repurpose old company work shirts.

And most of my jeans away from my work clothes are quite naturally tattered.

Clothes break down. That is what they do. Unless they are impractical to wear I will wear them.
As for the whole stigma of looking poor?
1.) I'm a 90s kid. Grunge fashion may not still be in, but it's totally normal to me.
2/ I AM poor. Lol. And no, I don't really care about looking poor. Not unless I'm going to work or a job interview. Plus it helps to filter out the superficial a bit. Last thing I care about or want around me is people who can't pull their head out of their ass over something as trivial as clothes.

Worst case scenario, I'll thrift together myself some alt/goth/metal styles of clothing. Again, been doing it for years. Totally normal to me.

But yeah, all clothes break down over time. So brands don't really matter. Unless you're trying to look flashy, it doesn't matter. If you ARE trying to look flashy, chances are you're probably more poor than I am and are looking to smoothtalk and steal your way to the top, two skills which I am good at detecting but terrible at actually doing.

I work with an older guy like that, actually.
The bar he regulates at, he told me some younger kid, a new worker there, formally addressed him as "Sir," and assumed he was semi-retired based on the fact that he has nice clothes and jewelry on.
My co-worker was actually insulted. He thought the kid was calling him old.

I explained to him though, "No, it's because you dress well and you're in there all the time. So in his youth he assumes you're a successful older gentlemen who got to early retirement."

The ACTUAL reason he dresses nice and goes in there all the time is cause he's got a crush on one of the waitresses. Lol. But yeah, he just had no idea that that's what it looks like.

Just like I look damn near like a homeless addict or a thief, but I'm stone cold sober and have a resume with 10 years of management experience at different jobs.

Ya can't judge a book by its cover accurately in life, is the moral of the story.

As an oldschool metalhead, something I learned on the road and in the scene of it for 17+ years is that even your death metal dudes covered in tattoos, spikes and studs, are mostly pretty much just normal, everyday people. Old biker dudes? Normal, everyday people. Gymratbro? Normal, everyday people.

Random blonde in a trench who thinks my canteen is full of whiskey just cause I'm in a band and then when I tell her actually it's water because the stage is hot, she asks me if I have any cocaine? Okay, NOT normal, everyday people.

Random brunette at the bar drunkenly trying to hook up with a rando that asks me, I say no, and then she asks everyone else in the band IN FRONT OF THEIR WIVES, I mean, KIND OF normal?? Just, really sloppy and in incredibly bad tact, normal everyday people, I guess. --Jeez that one was hard to lose. We ended up panning her all the way down and off to someone else after she became incredibly embarrassed that she asked a guy in front of his wife, who not only told her off but did so in a very "you look bad right now" kind of a way.