Fashion snobbery

[pinkpalm]

^i think if you stick around this board it is inevitable you will develop a critical eye--we could all be snobs in the making! my ex-teacher once reversed the snobbery by buying his daughter a real louis bag and spray painting on top of it and then giving it to her! i thought that was pretty funny.

I don't get how that is reverse snobbery...

 

[Fade to Black]

I don't get how that is reverse snobbery...

well the gesture seems like a way of throwing up the finger at the establishment...on a similar note, it reminds me kinda like what i did when i totally cut up my Bathing Ape t-shirt beyond recognition as soon as I spotted a hole growing in the shoulder. Thumbs down to poor quality, overpriced streetwear.

 

[fourboltmain]

Wow, people are so passionate about handbags. I once almost bought a really nice wallet. Then I started thinking about how dumb would I look if I had a $100 wallet that was empty? I'm not saying you guys don't have money, Lord knows I don't. But how can I purse be worth more than it's contents? Plastic doesn't count either...

 

[lolita729]

Wow, people are so passionate about handbags. I once almost bought a really nice wallet. Then I started thinking about how dumb would I look if I had a $100 wallet that was empty? I'm not saying you guys don't have money, Lord knows I don't. But how can I purse be worth more than it's contents? Plastic doesn't count either...

i know what you mean, it s not smart to buy bags and put urself in debt. but sometimes i work really hard to afford a certain bag i want, am addicted to them and i think that somebody who can t afford shouldn t not be in debt just to have a bag, there are plenty of nice bags out there and buying an expensive one just to look rich is stupid.

 

[fourboltmain]

Hey, I used to be addicted to old electric guitars I couldn't afford. I feel you.

 

[pucci_mama]

I dont judge people with a personal style, a personal style is always-good. I love vintage stuff, etc, and people hwo inovate.

Im talking about people wearing fake lvs, fake burberry, and pink juicy couture suits. People with no style of their own trying to 'show off' what they dont have. People who wear top-to-toe boho-at-topshop. I dot call this a personal style, is a lack of it.

Chavs. I just cant.

If this makes me a snob then so be it.

 

[Ella]

I don't look down upon people for not having designer clothes, I look down upon people with no personal taste like in my school- everyone has a Burberry/Mulberry scarf, Vuitton drawstring bag, Uggs/moon boots, Lacoste... you get the point. They're all such clones...

 

[iSpot]

I think a lot of people are a little bit snobbish...Why are people wearing labels? Because they're innovative, nice quality but also you're feeling more special when you're wearing a CdG skirt then, lets say, a Zara one.

I only really judge people on wearing fake handbags (like the 69 gucci ones) and people's lack of taste.

 

[snowqueen]

Snobbery is were you bujy clothes that are oviously designer in an attempt to impress overs. You might not even like the clothes but buy them because you want others to like you. Snobbery is also a form of insicurity, changing your self to please others thinking you need to be something to impress others. So in that sense I dont think any one on this board is a snob.
Talking of snobs has anyone seen the really old uk comeddy keeping up appearances, it is about a terible snob called hyasenth and she lies 24/7 to inpress mrs so and so from the "grange" even though its about 10 years old it cans till be applied and its funy as everyone knows someone like her.

 

[travis_nw8]

i don't judge people for wearing fakes but those who buy real and wear it badly.

 

[Luna]

^^ Hehe.. Good point.

 

[Sephora_Socialite]

In response to your statement, yes, you're a snob...and IMO there's nothing worse than being a snob... I find it tacky in a way...

I celebrate personal style, innovative people, actually, people that don't give a fcuk... it's absurd when I see people judging someone because of what they wear, or how they look like...

When I was hiring sales associates at Intermix down here in Bal Harbour, I was looking for skills, faces, attitudes, while my co workers were looking if she walked in with Mystique sandals and a Chloe bag... of course I didn't have as much power as they did, so they ended up hiring stupid airheads, that were all looks and superficial image... The ones that had the skills, and couldn't afford to dress from our store, they 86'ed them out of the office... very sad, very stupid.

I dunno, I think this topic is very stupid, but it has to be discussed...

And this is why I adore you as a person. You see people for who they are.

As much as I have learned about fashion, I know others don't have the means to know about it nor the funds to integrate it into their closet. Just because I might be wearing something that people might say is hip or wear designer clothes does NOT give me the right to judge people for cannot/do not have. It doesn't make me any better than them.


I look down on people for their sh*tty, cocky attitudes not their clothes. I don't care if thats a real or a fake if you carry it with tacky aloofness.

 

[.francesca]

haha...this place is sort of like a reverse 12-step program...a really twisted one...

anyway, i've been into fashion for a long time and this place has the most comprehensive
information i've ever encountered, with a lot of really knowledgeable people
with their own independent ideas and opinions on lots of different points
and i've found that since posting on here and reading what everyone has to say
i haven't started looking down on people who can't afford expensive things,
because i certainly can't...
but i have become way more inspired in my own designs and have come up with some
really interesting ideas for custom-made things
and that seems way more productive than becoming a snob
and possibly looking down on people who are less fortunate than yourself.

 

[Naimah]

Actually, I feel kinda bad; I realize I'm a snob! I wish I could say I don't judge people by the way they dress but I do. I hate the whole 'logo flaunt' thing. I guess I was just raised that you shouldn't advertise the label you were wearing. My Mother always said that you should show your prestige through your love of cut, fabric and fit. When I see people walking around in their obviously real but poorly made handbags and clothes they just scream fashion wh*re to me. I look down on these people because they are so caught up on what society thinks is prestigous or classy that they can't tell their purse is only worth maybe 1/4 of what they paid for it. Walking billboards... I think that's quite sad personally. I despise drones.

 

[Sephora_Socialite]

^ Thats not that bad...those walking billboards make me feel sorry because many think it makes them better and kooler than anyone else....too bad being too trend bandwagon happy like them shows that they can't think for themselves.

One of the best dressed person I know is someone who's never owned anything designer and rarely splurges on expensive things... but her way of picking unique pieces and pairing them has that very runway asthetic that makes her quite a stir. I like individuals like that....I noticed so many people in my school try to buy designer bags to make them unique...but then everyone gets the same bags and what do you get?...Clones all over again...it's quite sad. Maybe the most snob thing I've said was to an article at school that said those bags expresses peoples individuality....I wrote back that I feel sorry for people who count their individuality on a bag and that such an individual it makes you when you have several people in each class of 30 with the same bags.

 

[tott]

Well, well... I think most of us can be guilty of snobbery, a feeling of superiority, at times. It doesn't have to be clothes and accessories, it can be computers, cars, stamps or whatever. Just a feeling of "knowing better" than some others. This isn't necessarily bad unless you gloat about it and rub it in others faces. You could try to educate people instead, in a friendly manner. Then everyone wins!

"Evil" snobbery is trying to squash others by showing off your "superiority", your "superior" or more expensive stuff. That's just tacky.

I'm from a working class family, and though I don't really consider myself any specific class, it is in my heritage. I will not judge people by what they wear, even though I (of course!) make assumptions based on appearance.

 

[JMG3]

Everyone is guilty if some sort of snobbery or elitism in at least one facet of their lives.

Many of us might be guilty of obsessing over lables or certain designer pieces (by the way, nothing irritates me more than trashy girls with knock-off LV multi-color murakami bags!) but other people are very picky over other things as well.

I graduted high school in June of 2004, and I can tell you the kids in the honors/advanced placement classes definitely looked down on the kids who were in regular paced classes.

Having been in both, I actually prefered regular paced classes, since the honors program was so small you never got to interact with the rest of the school except for lunch and elective courses.

Perhaps we should all try to make a conscious effort to try and turn the other cheek when it comes to things like these, because it really doesn't do anyone any good.

Just my $0.02 :-)

-- Jason

PS: Okay, one last bitchy comment: For being so smart, I noticed that many of the kids in the honors program needed makeovers, ASAP!!

 

[Naimah]

^ Thats not that bad...those walking billboards make me feel sorry because many think it makes them better and kooler than anyone else....too bad being too trend bandwagon happy like them shows that they can't think for themselves.

One of the best dressed person I know is someone who's never owned anything designer and rarely splurges on expensive things... but her way of picking unique pieces and pairing them has that very runway asthetic that makes her quite a stir. I like individuals like that....I noticed so many people in my school try to buy designer bags to make them unique...but then everyone gets the same bags and what do you get?...Clones all over again...

well said

 

[pucci_mama]

I just came across this thread and find the discussion to be just as relevant now.

I think society has changed.. now the all the focus seems to be on personal style.. and when something is personal ...who am I to judge? Just because I have an interest in fashion does not mean that most people do.

I still look down upon trend churning places like Primark in the UK I think is similar to what you got in Forever21 in the US, the thing is.. nothing that comes from Primark looks good, they use child labour and the colours and material scream 'cheap?' I find it mind boggling that anyone would wear that!
I just cannot understand it...

 

[picnmix]

i don't judge people for wearing fakes but those who buy real and wear it badly.

So true, a lot of WAGS spring to mind.