When I went to department store I visited Polo shop and I picked up a shirt.
Do you guess how much it was?? 1790000won!! I droped it. -_-;;
Why just “A shirt” price is soooooooooo expensive??
Becuase it was “Polo” shrit??
Despite it was tooooo expensive but I wanted it.
Why? why I wanted that shrit? it was as same design with cheaper cloths.
I think beause of only “Polo”mark. Poeple think when they dress expensive brand cloths others look them more higher and important and also themselves have self-confidence.
is it true??
Do you guys know Neil Boorman? He wrote “Bonfire of the Brands.”
He bonfire all of his brand goods and he confess he is brand addictor.
And he said if you buy brand goods for show off other people you are brand addictor. because that goods are maybe actually don’t need to you. And also he said even if you dress that kinds of brand cloth your value is not higer than now.
But why we want expensive brand goods? Why they are look great?
Wearing famous brand clothes is a kind of self-satisfaction as far as I think. One of the important reasons we wear these kinds of clothes is to show off. It can make you look gorgeous, rich, of course, but what people wear is not everything, I believe.
But of course, part of why that Polo shirt cost almost 2 million won (really? $1790?) is because of where you went shopping, isn’t it? Department stores — in Korea, anyway, not so much in Canada — are extravagantly expensive. Does anyone actually pay $2000 for a shirt? I mean, for that price you could fly to Canada, or Europe, or the USA, buy the same shirt, and have a week’s holiday in pretty good hotels. Why would anyone buy the shirt?
Or was it only 179,000 won? (Hint: using commas can help you to write numbers more clearly: 1,790,000 is a LOT of money, while 179,000 is just an expensive shirt.)
I agree with Eun Suk that some people think wearing a brand name makes them look good. But personally, I hate it. I always try to find clothes where the brand name is not visible. I won’t buy a shirt, no matter how much I like it, if there’s a brand logo on it, because I am not an advertising billboard. If I could live without brand name goods, I would. But it’s hard. And often, the no-name stuff is lower quality — I learned this when I was a student and my no-name clothes, the only clothes I could afford — were always wearing out faster than well-made brand clothes.
The expensive brands discussion reminds me of how my fiancée and I often play a game on the subway, counting the Louis Vuitton Speedy Bags that so many women carry around. They’re very expensive, and in our opinion, very, very ugly. We can’t understand why people pay so much for them. Except, of course, to show off. Or do some people think those bags actually look good?
Oh, for your comprehension, there are a lot of imitations of Louis Vuitton Speedy Bag. I guess at least half of them who carry that bag are having imitation one. It’s very easy to buy imitation of very expensive brands. Actually it’s quite developed industry. There are even levels of imitations according to its condition and how it look same with real one.
Hahaha, I know about fake goods — there are so many available if you look around, and I’ve been in Korea long enough to know about that — but I also know that plenty of those Speedy Bags are real. (My fiancé read some article or book that described how some shops in foreign countries purposefully hire Korean-speakers to work in the section where they sell these gods when they have their annual sales, because so many Korean customers come to buy them… and heck, even in Airport duty free shops I have seen women buying them — real ones — and recognized them on my flight home to Korea.
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But even if most of them were fakes, it still doesn’t explain why someone would buy a fake Louis Vuitton Speedy Bag, since it’s so very ugly!
Yes, taste is subjective, but most of the women I know personally — Korean and otherwise — agree about it. Yet so many women want one, real or otherwise. It made me think of this article on Wikipedia.
But then, I don’t understand a lot of fashion. Maybe I’m just a grumpy old man!
In my opinion, in the past, there are formal laws and customs setting up different classes among people in the community. In those days, it was impossible that men of humble birth were treated as noblemen.
However, equalitarianism started spreading all over the world, and most countries tried to abolish the hierarchical society. That is, even though many kinds of discriminations still remain customary, there are not formal discriminations any more.
In the capitalistic system, the rich tend to tell the difference between them and others, showing their daily life as a consumer such as buying luxurious goods. And, the middle-class wish to look alike the high-class in their lifestyle, but they cannot afford to buy the same thing the rich use. So, some of them purchase imitations of luxury goods.
Therefore, in my opinion, the reason people wish to get expensive goods is that they want to tell the difference between them and others, showing what they purchase and how much they have, living in the capitalistic state.