This is some sort of sick joke, right?

[Alex]

iSm:

Based on my mom's years as a seamstress and duplicating designer clothes brought in by customers and listening to her comments, the correlation between price and quality is weak. Generally you'll get more expensive materials but unless it was sewn specifically for you (unless it is a very small line) it'll have still been sewn by the same textile places where everybody gets paid more for sewing faster, not better. Essentially the same treatment as the equivelant clothes at Target. Though if the line owner really cares you may see it slowed down and better stitching used, there really isn't much you can do to improve the quality of a t-shirt to justify a 500% increase in price on quality alone.

However, if people are willing to pay more for the label, more power to them. My method of fashion shopping is this:

1. Decide I need, for example, three new shirts for just casual wearing.
2. Decide which department store is closest that would sell shirts appropriate for casual wearing (only Target and Wal-Mart are, a priori, disqualified).
3. Go to store and enter.
4. The first three shirts, closest to the door, that I do not find repulsive will be tried on and purchased.
5. Go home.

No comparison shopping, no second store unless it turns out the first store doesn't have the kind of clothes I'm looking for. Little consideration for price. Ideally, no clothes shopping expedition will last more than 15 minutes total time in store.

Fashion is almost totally irrelevant to me personally, it is all about avoiding the actual pain of shopping. Thus I've been wearing the same model of Saucony sneakers, Rockport casual shoes, and Florsheim dress shoes for about a decade. No shopping necessary when new pairs are needed.

There's no sin in fashion (except for the ugg boot/mini skirt combination) unless you view it as an actual presentation of a person rather than possibly a representation. The clothes a person wears can tell you something about a person but you have to remain aware that the clothes frequently lie.