This is some sort of sick joke, right?

[innerSpaceman]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

the replacement store for Hoypoloi will be a Disney-run store to house these high-end clothing lines.

Is "high-end" determined solely by the retail price, or does quality of design and manufacture fit into that definition anywhere?

[Not Afraid]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Hey, I'm still pretty much without sin.

Is that like being almost pregnant?

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Hey, I'm still pretty much without sin. I bought the shag prints because I wanted to hang it on my walls, not because it's "rebellious", "fashionable", "brand name" or "collectible". In fact, I don't collect anything. I may drool over various stupidly expensive things but I'd never buy them for myself.

I'm curious about your term "sin: here - and while I know you are just throwing some hyperbole around, even before this I get the impression that your reaction to this line of clothes is more than they are ugly or expensive, but rather they are somehow immorale - that to purchase or wear them is simply "wrong" and that a "good/just/smart/sensible" person would never do that. In a sense that "Fashion" may well be a sin to you, in that it means conformity, foolishness, or some subjegation to an ill-thinking elite.

I don't want to put words in your mouth, but that's an impression I get.

[Gemini Cricket]

I know nothing about fashion. I added that amendment to my gay Constitution long ago: is gay but knows nothing about fashion nor would spend heaps of money on it in the name of keeping up.

What alarms me about Disney pricing in general is that they seem to be hiking things up just to see how much they can get away with. If people pay this much for a t-shirt, then they'll keep hiking up the prices. And people do buy this stuff. Bleh.

And as far as quality goes, I never expect Disney stuff to be high quality. Ever.

My 2 cents.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

I'm curious about your term "sin: here ...

I think what CP meant was being guilty of buying Disney stuff. I didn't read it as her making a comment about the shirt itself...
:shrug:

[BarTopDancer]

I believe CP was replying to MousePods comment, not about the morality of the shirts.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

I think what CP meant was being guilty of buying Disney stuff. I didn't read it as her making a comment about the shirt itself...
:shrug:

I got that but the use of the term "sin" got me to think about some of the reaction - or my impressions I'm getting from them - that have been expressed here.

I think I see "fashion" as having far less baggage than others do. To me it's a matter of aesthetics, others see it as a commandment to wear legwarmers - or so it seems.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

I believe CP was replying to MousePods comment, not about the morality of the shirts.

Perhaps, but her earlier posts - and maybe even yours, seem to contain a moral judgement in them beyond the aesthetic or economic valuations. I'm just checking my assumptions.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

I'm curious about your term "sin: here - and while I know you are just throwing some hyperbole around, even before this I get the impression that your reaction to this line of clothes is more than they are ugly or expensive, but rather they are somehow immorale - that to purchase or wear them is simply "wrong" and that a "good/just/smart/sensible" person would never do that. In a sense that "Fashion" may well be a sin to you, in that it means conformity, foolishness, or some subjegation to an ill-thinking elite.

I don't want to put words in your mouth, but that's an impression I get.

Thanks for the fact check - as BTD noticed, I used the word "sin" because Mousepod did. I don't think of this in sin terms. I barely ever think of anything in sin terms.

I blame Mousepod

[BarTopDancer]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Perhaps, but her earlier posts - and maybe even yours, seem to contain a moral judgement in them beyond the aesthetic or economic valuations. I'm just checking my assumptions.

No moral judgement from me. I think most of them are cute; and the ones that aren't cute to me certainly aren't immoral. Just a bit of shock that such shoddy workmanship can warrent these prices.