Your Most Expensive Piece of Clothing

In alot of ways buying a nice suit dress for special occasion is totally cool. But buying stuff like that for day to day wear suggests that the person wearing them is arrogant and shallow.

to the people who have £500 dresses, are these special occasion dresses or just normal wear? do you earn the money yourself or does someone else buy you the clothes?
because atm i wouldnt consider buying anything expensive as i cant afford such pieces. my parents could afford to buy whatever for me but they dont. that doesnt mean i dont lust after margiela or rick owens though.
i can understand why someone would pay for a dior homme suit or made to measure dress etc, i just think it gets a bit ridiculous if someone pays an excessive amount for something based purely on label and not on the actual quality of the design/piece, or ignores the fact that you can buy a white tank top for £1 in primark and there wont be much difference.

Your buying into a brand, not how the item of clothing looks. Brands have connotations attached to them. Abercrombie and fitch = Upper class posh successful american influenced rich girls and boys. The A&F clothes dont necessarily look any better than normal high street stuff, but the idea of wearing them is to be a part of that lifestyle. By paying more and wearing those brands you are saying to other people you are part of that rich kid lifestyle, and thats why it CAN be arrogant and shallow.

I think it's nice to have lovely well-made clothes since most of the time I'm covered in manure and smell like a horse's rear end

Your buying into a brand, not how the item of clothing looks. Brands have connotations attached to them. Abercrombie and fitch = Upper class posh successful american influenced rich girls and boys. The A&F clothes dont necessarily look any better than normal high street stuff, but the idea of wearing them is to be a part of that lifestyle. By paying more and wearing those brands you are saying to other people you are part of that rich kid lifestyle, and thats why it CAN be arrogant and shallow.

Read what I have said. I buy things because I LIKE them. NOT because of the brand. Rich kid lifestyle? Christ, prejudiced/jealous much?

Im was'nt having a go at you at all. I was talking in general, obviously you think the whole idea applies to you anyway. Your probably a perfectly nice person but your being very defensive.

I never said it applied to me, now who's assuming that I am assuming things

Tbh the way you wrote and quoted me gave the impression that you meant me. I was merely defending all the people who you are wrongly labelling

I can understand where your coming from, and i can see how your could have misread what i said, but I'm not necessarily labelling anyone. People in general label themselves when they wear these things. No matter what you wear you are always going to get judged because of it, its how fashion works.

Oh my gosh, i'm sat here with my mouth wide open.
The most i have spent on anything myself is er, 40 quid. I have a dress that costs 60 though? aha

Ah but if I was dressed in all primark then wouldnt you assume I was a cheap skank

Ah but if I was dressed in all primark then wouldnt you assume I was a cheap skank

*gives up*

Nakedness is the way forward