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Posted by Colleen Shirazi, Friday, August 26, 2005 8:48 PM (Eastern)
Well, I disagree with most of Dain's post, of course. Except about the PC fashion thing. I myself prefer the feel-bad approach, if I'm buying. I don't want to see a bunch of ordinary looking broads in magazines. I want to see young, impossibly beautiful girls and women. They can be older, I see nothing wrong with that, but they still have to look better than I do, or I feel cheated.
But what you wear does not indicate how much money you have. It doesn't. I've lived in California for twenty years. Those people with the expensive cars and clothes, do not necessarily own anything beyond what you see, if they own even what you see. And those inconspicuous old guys who buy their clothes in New Chinatown--those people own more than you, me, and everyone we know, all rolled into one.
About the $40,000 handbag...well...you have to draw a line somewhere. Where you draw the line, that may be an individual thing, but you have to have a line. Or else everyone who wants a piece of your money knows how to get it.
And I highly disagree that creativity involves making clothes, any more than programming means you have to create programs from scratch. There's a point where you may be reinventing the wheel. There are too many variables involved in finding and selecting clothes, for it not to be a creative art unto itself.
On a personal level...I have chosen not to be that interested in the supremely wealthy. There's a point where it becomes consumption for the sake of consumption. I find the middle class more interesting. Not in the artistic sense, obviously...but in the functional sense.
It remains to be seen whether or not we'll have a middle class, ten or twenty years from now. So, there is also a sentimental factor in it for me.
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