Refusal to wear brand names

well, that's kind of apples and oranges. there are lots of reasons why pple are starving in this world. most of them center around politics, not name brand clothing.

anyways, not to derail the thread...i was in a mall today. ugh! i can count the number of times i've been in a mall in the last five years on one hand. it was like a foreign land to me...all the mall people wearing all their mall clothes, eating food court food. i felt like an alien. there were a few stores that i wouldnt even go into because of their slave labour practices, but somehow, i ended up buying a tank and a pair of capris that i didnt even really like from winners. :crazy: i'm still trying to figure out how that happened. i'm a buy local, buy from small business or buy second hand kind of gal. if i have to go into a mall again, i'm wearing a tinfoil hat. hahah

 

i HATE wearing brand names, i just like coloured blank shirts or band ones.

 

Brand clothes-why? They're way too expensive. It's quite pointless just to buy something because of the name.

 

I am 100 percent anti-brand name. I refuse to purchase brand-name clothing under ANY circumstances. I buy my clothing at vintage or resale stores, rock t-shirt stores and Wal-mart, and this is a conscious decision. I will not submit to labels.

 

Walmart is about the worst place you can buy clothing period. Just about all of it is made via child labor in third world countries..........Walmart itself is probably the worlds most irresponsible, evil retailer..........for too many reasons to even list.....do some research.

 

I won't wear like abercrombie and fitch cuz most of there stuff is just not appealing to me but if i went there and i found something i could cut up or sew things onto and it didnt cost an assload of money yeah id buy it.

 

I just wear what I can afford, basically, and what I can fit into.

 

I wear whatever I find that is cheap and I like. Thank the lord for Vallue Villiage!

 

i'm not ANTI brand name, i just tend to not buy it. it's stupid to spend 50$ for a polo that half the people at school have. it's unappealing to me. i'd rather spend 10$ on a shirt that's unique.

 

I am not a barnad-y...but when I wear denim ,I will only wear levi jeans......

 

Uhhhhh...no one starves BECAUSE of name brand clothing. People can make the world a better place by using their money for a cause instead of high priced clothing. So, I felt it was indulgent to wear name brands when my money could be used to help feed a hungry family.
Get it?

 

most people starve to death because of war.

but you'd be suprised how many of the rest starve because of the first world's policy of agriculture and textile subsidization.

 

Yeah i know

Btw i'm not just saying that to follow ..
I really did some research ...

 

You should try sex with a one night stand that will make you feel much dirtier and used - esp if the other person looks like a moose and you only did it because you were drunk

 

My advice is to be your own individual and avoid buying into the corporate propaganda.

 

Well I have to say I am a second hand kinda person but again I havent been able to find a pair of cheap sandals that will fit me and I dont own an ebay account, dont want one ........so I cant buy there for cheap. But to answer the thread, I have to say that I ran across a somewhat expensive brand of Tiva sandals and I know from latter years that they last FOREVA. I am gonna go ahead and buy them even though I dont normally buy name brand. Just a cool tye dye or whateva is cool with me though lately I been buyin my own fabric and just making my own stuff to wear.

 

Anyone here makes their own clothes?? I didn't read the whole way through the thread so I dunno.
Brand names are unnecessary unless you're insecure in the way others perceive you (or just plain boorish). Even with no logo you can still avoid wearing something made by some big multinational company. Personal politics also come into it I suppose.

It's not just the whole sweatshop thing that gets my goat though. When I've travelled in poor places in rural morocco and india and you see the kids with nothing, living in places without electricity etc and they're wearing horrible old 10th hand tattered and filthy Nike and Reebok jumpers, not their traditional clothes that's when it really upsets me. It's all the whole western dream shitting on them. What once seemed so attractive and such a luxurious item has become so tattered and worthless yet it's what people long for and strive for because material goods = happiness, this is the lesson we teach.

Fuck brand names quite frankly.

Anyway, they make you look like a pleb or someone who's identity can be bought at the mall if you have enough dinero...

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peace

 

I stopped wearing brands awhile ago. But I do like my JCPenny. And they have brands, but it's not like the logo is out front or whatever. *cheap brands* hehe

 

I ain't bothered. But virtually all of the stuff I own doesn't have the company logo visible. Mainly because the brands that do that don't make clothes that I like.

 

I don't see why anyone would wear clothing with a brand name on it when there are so many things you can wear that actually make a statement about yourself (eg. Band t-shirts).