Today’s freewrite/quick rant
by Kyle on Oct.17, 2007, under Rant
I can’t get over the fact that people care so much about labels on their clothes. I’m fine getting the cheapest pair of jeans ever. When they start to wear out noticeably, I shrug, toss them in the “use if I’m going to get messy” drawer, and move on. I can’t even imagine how much financial pain I’d be in if I fell on my face and tore a pair of $500 jeans. Really though, is the label so important? A designer freak might argue that the quality of their clothes is much higher than that of mine, but quality only goes so far in explaining the load of cash they spent on woven cotton with some fake paint stripes across the ass. Are they stain resistant? Is there some sort of electromechanical barrier shielding your legs from sudden impact? Do robot arms erupt out of the pockets in times of need to save the day? No? Oh. The name? You’re paying for the name? Awesome. And they’re still made in China.
It upsets me hearing people talking about getting these expensive handbags that do exactly what their cheaper counterparts do – hold their crap. I know it’s all part of the American dream or whatever, but I could see that money being used in so many more things that are better than showing other people that you’re so rich that you want to be ripped off. Even if they didn’t want to donate it to starving children and pick up a cheaper alternative, they could at least spend it on an object that’s more than a shallow status symbol.
Luckily, my girlfriend isn’t into that crap, so I’m a happy man.
