> Despite the mind tricks they play, I think one of the core foundations of this business is to make women feel inferior, not fantastic or worthy.
I think this is foundation of all advertisement industry. There is a strong theory that people spend best when they feel depressed and vulnerable, and therefore we have abundance of the bad news in every media -> people feel depressed -> ads work best. I don't have TV and never watch the news, just in case :)
>Each time I hear a male lawyer in my office complaining about the price he paid for a new handbag his diva craved, my head spins and I think about how many trips I could have taken for $2,000.
We all know it's not about quality or creative design, it's about label and status. Which leads to funny situations when girls sniff each other, looking at stitches and other microscopic tell-tales to figure out if other girl's D&G bag is fake or not. Because there is no easy way to tell $2000 from $20 - boy, they were handed really wrong status symbol... But they still believe in it.
Which lead to another aspect of all those status things... - I think people who care about them are stupid. I like intelligent women. So when I see a woman who cares about fashion industry and all those handbags&things - that's immediate -100 points. I myself care only about quality, and ready to pay for a quality things. If you take watches - $2000 Swiss watch is really a good investment. The one I wear now is 15 years old, looking nice and stylish, and it'll stay that way till the day I day, which will make it's price/year ridiculously low. But for the most things - you can buy amazing hand-crafted things on Etsy that far surpass those brandname things. My wife buys hand-made handbags on etsy for 1/10-20 of those stupid brand bags. Same for closes like leather jackets - you can order one, to your specs, out of magnificient leather for fractions of what they sell in those stores...
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> Despite the mind tricks they play, I think one of the core foundations of this business is to make women feel inferior, not fantastic or worthy.
I think this is foundation of all advertisement industry. There is a strong theory that people spend best when they feel depressed and vulnerable, and therefore we have abundance of the bad news in every media -> people feel depressed -> ads work best. I don't have TV and never watch the news, just in case :)
>Each time I hear a male lawyer in my office complaining about the price he paid for a new handbag his diva craved, my head spins and I think about how many trips I could have taken for $2,000.
We all know it's not about quality or creative design, it's about label and status. Which leads to funny situations when girls sniff each other, looking at stitches and other microscopic tell-tales to figure out if other girl's D&G bag is fake or not. Because there is no easy way to tell $2000 from $20 - boy, they were handed really wrong status symbol... But they still believe in it.
Which lead to another aspect of all those status things... - I think people who care about them are stupid. I like intelligent women. So when I see a woman who cares about fashion industry and all those handbags&things - that's immediate -100 points. I myself care only about quality, and ready to pay for a quality things. If you take watches - $2000 Swiss watch is really a good investment. The one I wear now is 15 years old, looking nice and stylish, and it'll stay that way till the day I day, which will make it's price/year ridiculously low. But for the most things - you can buy amazing hand-crafted things on Etsy that far surpass those brandname things. My wife buys hand-made handbags on etsy for 1/10-20 of those stupid brand bags. Same for closes like leather jackets - you can order one, to your specs, out of magnificient leather for fractions of what they sell in those stores...