Are we becoming designer crazy?

[SkittleGirl]

I've also noticed this trend to where I go to school in the south and it is the biggest fashion show i've ever seen. Designers don't need to have runways shows in New York and Paris, just come around here and they are represented to the fullest! I was always under the impression that if you buy designer clothing and accessories, that you don't have to see the name, I know its real and I payed the money for it, so I can care less whether you know i'm wearing it or not.

I don't know if its just me, but I was raised in a caribbean background and my mother just didn't play that. I asked her for a shirt that cost $60 dollars once, and believe me that was my first and only time, not only did I get the lecture on the value of a dollar, but that fact that trends fade quickly and as my mother says "Good living don't make long life." After that, I not only try to make better decisions when i shop now, but I think about it more and assess whether I really need what i'm buying.

For example, i wanted some Chloe sunglasses, and was really about to buy them for myself, and I thought..."This is only gonna last till fall of 2001, then what, i'm stuck with some glasses that are (1)out of fasion, (2) I know that I will get tired of wearing (3) I don't have that much orange,green, blue, pink, red in the world to just buy clothes to match sunglasses."

I don't know, maybe its just me, but not only priorities mixed up, but this is going to lead to greater economic problems down the road, because if these children today don't see that there is more to life than a label and a name, I wonder how happy and prosperous they will be in the future, because i've seen it too much, and living paycheck to paycheck doesn't look cute on anyone.

[DST Love]

Originally posted by SkittleGirl:
I've also noticed this trend to where I go to school in the south and it is the biggest fashion show i've ever seen. Designers don't need to have runways shows in New York and Paris, just come around here and they are represented to the fullest! I was always under the impression that if you buy designer clothing and accessories, that you don't have to see the name, I know its real and I payed the money for it, so I can care less whether you know i'm wearing it or not.

I don't know if its just me, but I was raised in a caribbean background and my mother just didn't play that. I asked her for a shirt that cost $60 dollars once, and believe me that was my first and only time, not only did I get the lecture on the value of a dollar, but that fact that trends fade quickly and as my mother says "Good living don't make long life." After that, I not only try to make better decisions when i shop now, but I think about it more and assess whether I really need what i'm buying.

For example, i wanted some Chloe sunglasses, and was really about to buy them for myself, and I thought..."This is only gonna last till fall of 2001, then what, i'm stuck with some glasses that are (1)out of fasion, (2) I know that I will get tired of wearing (3) I don't have that much orange,green, blue, pink, red in the world to just buy clothes to match sunglasses."

I don't know, maybe its just me, but not only priorities mixed up, but this is going to lead to greater economic problems down the road, because if these children today don't see that there is more to life than a label and a name, I wonder how happy and prosperous they will be in the future, because i've seen it too much, and living paycheck to paycheck doesn't look cute on anyone.

That last line is too cute :-)!! I agree with you wholeheartedly on everything.