But how can you show them that you bought an overpriced shirt made by a child in Bangladesh?
Screenprint the notice right on the shirt: this shirt supports Bangladeshi child welfare
Kinda makes everyone else jerks if they’re buying clothes from makers who could afford their next meal regardless.
Trick yourself out until you look like a NASCAR
Wait… Is that 2020s really what it looks like now?! Or is the meme just 5 years old?
I have several polo Ralph Lauren clothing items in my home, the logo hasn’t changed significantly in 30+ years in shape or size on the normal polos. They do have some items that have the polo logo or the teddy bear larger but those are in the main Ralph Lauren line for fashion, not the Polo line polo shirts that are a business casual intent
I want a divorce
Because you look like a horse.
I can dig the 2040’s.
But of an un branded vibe to it too.
lol yeah
Wow how has that guy been able to look the same during all those years
My thoughts exactly. I stopped wearing conspicuously branded products when I was in highschool for this very reason.
The irony is that this is often true. I have always preferred shirts that have minimal advertising on them (preferably none, but a dime sized insignia is generally the best you get) but they are notably harder to find and when you do, they are more expensive. The happy medium I have found is looking for used Polo type shirts that were expensive when new, which I can generally find cheaply because collars aren’t a popular look these days.
Yeah, that’s why I won’t wear stuff like that
Now, there’s the adjacent, but not the same thing of band shirts or similar merchandise. The difference is that in theory, the band/artist is going to benefit from the purchase. It is still advertising that I’m paying for, but, because merchandise is often a big income stream for musicians in particular, I don’t object to being their billboard if I like them enough to get anything of theirs in the first place.
When it’s a clothing company? Hell no. If their label/logo is more than the size of a tag, I’m not doing it. I don’t mind the idea of a trademark/label/tag being present, that’s expected. It’s when the branding becomes the design that it’s a problem.
Every so often, I am willing to pay to advertise.
I just bought a shirt with a vintage PBS logo from the 1980s, which I did not buy from PBS since they aren’t selling it, but I would have paid to advertise PBS from a PBS store if they sold it with the 1980s logo.
So yeah, I pay to advertise public television- and public radio, since I really need an NPR shirt as well. We also give them money every year. And we get back really excellent journalism, so it’s worth it.
Now Nike? Fuck Nike. I’d never wear their fucking swoosh.
Yeah. I’m happy to wear shirts with logos from my favorite bands on them.
In sociology and in economics, the term conspicuous consumption describes and explains the consumer practice of buying and using goods of a higher quality, price, or in greater quantity than practical. In 1899, the sociologist Thorstein Veblen coined the term conspicuous consumption to explain the spending of money on and the acquiring of luxury commodities (goods and services) specifically as a public display of economic power—the income and the accumulated wealth—of the buyer. To the conspicuous consumer, the public display of discretionary income is an economic means of either attaining or of maintaining a given social status.
This results in what may be known as Veblen goods, for which the demand increases as the price increases, in apparent contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping demand curve.
The entire principle Apple is based on
Yep that is why I paint my Androids white
The bougie love advertising for free! You know how many yeti stickers I see on cars? It’s a fucking ice chest…
Those Apple stickers. This was in the Bay Area but not that many people work at Apple. Even if they did, who would advertise their employer on their car??
what is “leer” for that matter
I admit I buy T-shirts at micro-breweries. I do support those that I actually buy. Additionally, it helps me keep record of my journey of visiting many breweries.
I’ve even turned some of my collection into a king sized quilt and a lap quilt. So, my shirts are very useful in more ways than one.
I think it’s different when you’re talking about a small business or a nonprofit or a museum. Paying $20 to advertise things that actually make the world a better place that people wouldn’t otherwise know about is, in my opinion, a net good.
Roger that.
My biggest collection of branded t-shirts are from my favorite podcasts. But they tend to have some kind of comedic style or logo, rather than a simple bland “The Name Of The Show” printed in block letters across the front.
I even take the badges off my car. Nobody needs to know what brand I have.
No no you should get paid to wear them
I used to say this a cynical teen lol I still believe it, just don’t care to talk about it anymore
I used to be cynical too, I still am but I used to be too.
that’s why I don’t like buying t-shirt with brand logos on, I feel like companies are using me as means to reach out to new customers
This is true to a point. Once you go past brands Ralph Lauren, Gucci, or Versace to the “real” expensive brands, they become understated again. For example, this $555 blue T-shirt
For that price, a tailor better come to my home, get my exact measurements, and make it specifically for me from high quality materials.
I go pretty far to my way to make sure my branded t-shirts are from small to mid-sized online content creators that I enjoy. It works out because they usually put a lot of effort into making sure their stuff is unique