I agree. :snap:

I do understand your point, too, BTD, about the quality. You can buy a suit at Neimans' and it will last forever. I actually have a Saks Fifth Avenue coat that must be from the 60's and it is damn cool and in excelent shape. No seam tears, no missing buttons.

But, oh my, the clothes they sell at some of those stores are so dull!!! I always ask my friends to let me know if I am wearing something too out there because I do not shop in the mom department. Not that I am flashy but I can't stand mom clothes.

I love the off the wall stores even though compared to most of their things I dress conservatively.

And I have to comment, most women I see wearing the Juicy pants have rather, um, er, juicy rears. What do thin bummed women wear? Hmm???

I thought I should come back and state this~ clothes from those dull stores have their place in the world. If you are a professional and that is the look you need to have, well, that is that. And, they will be worn and washed a lot so yes, good to invest in a quality wardrobe.

carry on.....

Amazingly, they don't have to put words on their asses to make people look at them. ;)

I don't follow fashion - fashion is people telling me what to do. I easily admit to limiting my spending on clothing to certain rules, such as how much wear it can get, how many places it will be appropriate at, and whether I could get something similar elsewhere.

I have to admit, I'd laugh in someone's face if they said they paid $130 for a piece of clothing to show that they were "rebelling". Who are you rebelling against - the employer that hands you your very large paycheck, or perhaps Visa/Mastercard? Third option - maybe you're rebelling against your very wealthy parents who bought it for you.

Shirts that are priced exorbitantly, whether it be a $100 white collared shirt for conservative meetings or a $100 "couture" shirt that looks like someone spilled something on it, I will not purchase. Not even if I had money coming out of my ears. The reasons for not purchasing them are different, but there's still a price threshold. I may buy the nice one for $30, but the gaudy/torn/faded/ugly thing wouldn't get $1 out of me, because I'd never wear it.

I've bought my share of "worn" or "torn" jenas, but in this specific case, YUCK.

The above is just my opinion...

Well, there's nothing worth looking at there! ;)

Listen, edgy or not ... these clothes are poorly made, of shoddy construction, and look to fall apart upon the first washing. I find most of them ugly, but some of them not (the Bambi comes to mind), but they are all cheap pieces crap that made me laugh outfreaking loud when I saw the price tags.

It's not the price alone. I could have walked 10 feet further at WoD and found more expensive items. It's value. $150 for a piece of (reproduced) art, or $150 for the crappiest tshirt I've ever seen stitched together by limbless Indonesian eunichs? Which will you choose?

Brav-freekin-o!!!!!!!!!!!!! :snap: :snap: :snap:

And, there is the matter of preference. Personally, I would prefer to wear a somewhat edgy Bambi shirt, cheap or not, than the light grey sweat shorts with the word GRUMPY on the ass that were on the next rack over. But, I think the GRUMPY ass shorts wouldlook cute on you, ISM. ;)

Nonsense - we all follow fashion - everytime we put something on or buy something we're making decissions that are at least in part aesthetic. Fashion is not an absolute - we all have it, and thankfully we're all different in expressing it (except I guess during certain teen years when Brand identity becomes for some reason very important).

You may not be Haut Cotour (sp?), or Goth, or Preppy - but you have a style, an aesthetic - and yes a "fashion" and it is dictated at least in part by other's unless your sewing your own clothes from fabric you wove and dyed yourself. Rejecting materialism is also a fashion statement.

Would you pay $150 for a limbless Indonesian eunich? :D

Don't you do that everytime you shop at Walmart?