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- From: nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Latest F5 info
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:25:47 GMT
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- In article <C1G2J7.K4M@news.udel.edu> cate@brahms.udel.edu (Catherine M Leonard) writes:
-
- >
- >Major resonance here. I was looking through two very mainstream fashion
- >mags this weekend that had features on the Grunge Explosion in the High
- >$$$ fashion markets. Clothes that I wore back in the 70s and that my
- >younger friends have been purchasing from Goodwill for the last couple of
- >years are being manufactured ( I WILL NOT say designed) by Lagerfeld,
- >Ellis et al. A tiny knit top that sold for $9 in 1973 and $.50 at Goodwill
- >today is priced out at $300+ from the big name folks. The models have
- >brightly colored hair and wear Doc Martens. I feel ripped off.
-
- Ripped off??? YOU paid 50 cents! Fashion-conscious women today
- are paying $300. And YOU feel ripped off?
-
- If you want to see rip offs off go to a Gap or Designs or some
- other Levi's outlet and notice how the more "pre-washed" or
- "pre-damaged" the clothes are the more they cost. I've been
- wearing the same style of NON prewashed (the stiff blue kind),
- straight leg Levi's blue jeans for 15 years -- I wait til
- Sears or someone runs a special sale on them then I buy a
- half dozen or so. Ditto with the rest of my clothes --
- T shirts, sweatshirts, flannel shirts, sneakers (or hiking
- boots for New England winters -- as I type this I'm
- wearing a pair of Limmer boots I bought in 1978 -- it's
- hard to buy boots these days that last 15 years, and
- these have decades of life left in them).
-
- I make a ton more money now than when I was in college 20
- years ago -- I own a house, my wife and I have a 6 figure
- income, we just got back from Tahiti last month, etc, but
- I dress the same as I have for two decades -- cheap, comfort-
- able and functional. Fashion is bullshit. People who
- concern themselves with it are idiots.
-
-
- ---peter
-
-