For my part I have a Polo Jeans Co t-shirt and a pair of Docker shorts on. But I got them at an outlet, so they don’t really count. My daily wear is almost exclusively Old Navy and Polo, but always on sale. The wallet of my college-student retail job self doesn’t support much else.
I’m like TLD, it seems. I can dress myself up, but I usually choose not to. Who’m I trying to impress? I’m not really trying to pick up someone who focuses on my clothing, when there’s so much more to me. I’m not saying I wear paint-covered jeans with holes in them, but if someone looking at me is too good for my $30 Old Navy carpenter jeans, then I’d not be interested anyway.
Point well taken. It is about comfort after all. I just often run into couples and the woman will chastise her partner for never dressing up like jimpatro.
I wear nice name brand clothes because they’re better clothes, usually. I’m talking about the more established brands, not those awful fads, and the ones that plaster their brandname all over the outside is just tacky. (side note: the other day in the mall, I saw them selling Member’s Only jackets in one of those urban shitwear stores. I wanted to torch the place!
Anyway, you don’t have to be a metrosexual to appreciate quality, and you don’t have to be a neanderthal to think that fashion is, by and large, rather ridiculous.
Did you guys miss the part about rarely paying full price? How is that a marketer’s dream? Sure, I prefer (what I consider) nice stuff, but I don’t think they make a bunch of money off of me. More than from many guys, sure, but not substantially more.
They’d probably be happier if you were besieging the stores and paying well above list price. But as long as you’re consuming what they are producing (and displaying the labels, to the envy of others) I suspect they are still smiling all the way to the bank.
Okay. But I’ll wager that potential buyers can often tell what the brand is. Not many manufacturers of designer items are at pains to make their wares look indistinguisable from others’.
Excellent point, Xema. I do recognise the cut/style/intangibles of certain brands/designers when I see them on other people.
In a way, I guess I have to admit to some snobbery then. Even in the very starting of a thread of this nature.
Today, I’m in jeans and a lumberjack shirt. Comfy. But, I bet if I looked, I would find a brand name label. O the misery of being me. <— that’s a winky smiley.
Thanks for all the replies, y’all. I found it interesting.
I don’t really see the whole “marketer’s dream” or “laughing all the way to the bank” (Implying that NCB is some sort of sucker) thing. Just 'cause NCB appreciates quality and is willing to pay a little more for it doesn’t make him a sucker. That’s just Capitalism.
I wear cheap clothes, but I like quality in other things. I’ll always buy Stella Artois or Pilsner Urquell when I can afford it. It’s simply demonstrably better than Busch or Milwaukee’s Beast. If The importers make a little money off me, I’m happy for them; They’re selling me a quality product at a fair price.
Be into what you’re into. As long as you don’t think your clothes make you superior, there’s no problem.
I could care less about my “regular” clothes (i.e. stuff I wear when I work in the office) but I’m fairly particular about my outdoor gear (especially boots) as I work outside most of the time.
That being said, I must salute your impeccable taste in power tools.
I don’t wish to imply that I think NCB is a sucker. Fashion has a long and enduring history - it’s obviously closely tied to human nature. People put real value on owning - and being seen to own - what is au courant. Though this probably isn’t the noblest human trait anyone could name, it would be churlish and unrealistic to condemn it.
Ahem, as to my opinion. I think you’re a person who likes a certain quality of garment, and chooses to spend your money on those garments. No more, no less. Nothing wrong with that. Some people have massive CD collections. Some people have $25,000 home theatre set ups. Some people give all their money to the “Overweight Ballerina Benevolent Fund”. Some people have a really, really fabulous wardrobe.
And, I must add that I think you look SPIFFY DAAAAHLING!!
NoClueBoy, no need to feel snobbish for spotting great clothes. You just know them when you see them and that’s that. And I don’t care who knows I’m wearing Donna Karan. Most don’t. But they will think “You know, there is something special about that blazer…hmmm.”
