Ah but how the truth shines such a light on our own inner secrets, photon rays delicately caressing the edges of our deepest dungeon-like vaults, passing like snakes and bringing in to view all the chains that hold us down, one link at a time.

The world isn't ready to be free, so we keep these hidden chains tied closer to us more so than we keep our dearest enemies. If we were to reveal these truths we would then truly know of revelations.

Mine are

1. Juicy Couture

2. Coach

3. Ed Hardy

4. Metal Mulisha

5. SRH

6. Skin Industries

7. Fearless

8. Hart and Huntington

9. So Cal/Nor Cal

10. Fox

11. Aeropostale

12. No Fear

13. Fatal

14. American Eagle

15. Victorias secret Pink

16. Hostility

etc..

lol name brand whore much?

Not feeling any of those labels. But i'm a jeans and tshirt guy.

1. VANS
2. ADIDAS
3. QUICKSILVER

Shoes its all about the nikes. only when they're on sale cause I'm not paying ****ing 80 bucks for a pair of shoes. i like flannel shirts, some thrift store, but I have one from american eagle that's really nice. I have one sweater, it's really nice, not sure what brand cause the tag was ripped off when I bought it. I have 2 second hand roots hoodies but they look stupid as **** so I don't really wear them. For jeans I usually try to get the nicest ones from walmart, i don't really like them but most other jeans are too expensive. T shirts I usually just wear thrift store stuff, but I think that some of them are really cool. I found one obey shirt that's bad ass as hell. I have a jansport backpack that I really like, it looks sick. I also have a sweet trucker jacket my uncle gave me from the 80s, even though it looks pretty redneck. I'm a big fan of snapback hats too, I have 2. Overall I tend to try to wear baggier clothes but not too bad.

i like the way i dress.

Express. I'm up for anything though.

To be honest, I put more thought into my fragrance than into my clothes.

since i buy most of my Ts from third party licensees, i never bother with the brands

it's too hot to wear any other kind of clothing in the weather here

i'm usually in a t and shorts

I buy clothes from thrift stores h&m urban outfitters volcom and guess and I think bluenotes a few times. Outside of those stores I don't know anything else really.

I definitely love Giordano and Lacoste!

I don't understand why people pay top dollar for otherwise normal T-Shirts or Hoodies emblazoned with a logo of a particular brand. Is it a form of conspicuous consumption relevant only to a particular subculture?

So, ok, you like Carhartt; but what is the point of buying a sweatshirt that says, "Carhartt"? The entire point of Carhartt is the clothes are durable and utilitarian; yet, somehow, this seems to have been transformed into a prestige brand of such magnitude people will pay top dollar for a sweatshirt simply because it says... "Carhartt".

Maybe they just want to. I've always seen it as a form of trying to show status. Especially in the cases of A&F and the like.

But the funny thing is, really expensive clothes don't normally have the brand name on it.

LOL. About the only brand I stick to are Bonds for their plain cotton t-shirts.

Whatever I can grab for under €25 in Primark (which is usually Ceaderwood State) and Dunnes, If I'm feeling particularly fancy then it's off to Jack And Jones. Cheap **** FTW.

I shop mostly at Bluenotes because it's cheap and it looks good.

I buy name brand strictly because they typically are built to last. I tend to like the style and cut of the said name brands also. Its never been about having a name brand on my body its about being comfortable and having something that will last. I do see your point though, and often the name is not synonymous with quality on many occassions.

Anthropologie, Urban Outfitters, Coldwater Creek. Beautiful 70s boho stuff from Etsy. :)

Haha, how did I forget this one?!: Free People! :D

Or maybe they're paying top dollar because they want something that's durable and won't have to be replaced in six months time. Besides that, there's only a handful of articles from Carhartt that seem to really go out of their way to advertise the brand, in most cases it's just that 1 1/2"x1 1/2" square that's off to the side of the clothing, or a little 1/2" strip of leather as in some of the newer articles. People would totally know I was wearing Carhartt if they saw in me this from afar.

http://s.stpost.com/eccStoreFront/pr.../f_2122Y_1.jpg


Don't get me wrong, I agree with you to some regards about people overpaying for under performing clothing, but I'm a little bewildered why you'd use Carhartt as an example when I think it's probably one of the best quality brands on the market place. I even like how they're starting to expand out and be thought of as an "everyday" brand of clothing than just a working brand. It's not like we're ever going to see an Ed Hardy style shirt carrying the Carhartt brand name.

^^^ Pete, sorry for not explaining more detail, but I was referring to actual Carhartt sweatshirts that say, "CARHARTT", in very large type that stretches across chest, from nipple to nipple if you will. I agree, generally speaking, Carhartt makes very durable clothing; hence my confusion as to why people would pay carhartt prices for a regular sweatshirt emblazoned with the logo.