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For most of my life I have taken it for granted that I wear designer label clothing and I still do. It's an unspoken requirement in my creative profession. But recently, reading realist writings from the USA, I have come to understand this is an elite privilege. (And I, some sort of wealthy snob for wearing designer clothing.) Designer clothing becomes a sign of wealth rather then good taste and a sense of elegant style as well as feeling so nice to wear. Dressing with style and elegance, that is something that money cannot buy; even if you are a boy band member and hire a stylist. I could still dress those boys better, and with ease being such handsome young men. I wear YSL shirts, because they feel good to wear on my skin and thick cotton is warm and soft, as I do polo short sleeve shirts, with a French designer name, I cannot spell or pronounce; and my jeans are mere Levis or something less. I refuse to pay inflated designer prices for a worn out pair of fading blue jeans... I expect better... fawn soft woollen fabric designer label trousers to match an Italian designed blue wool jacket, hand stitched, if nothing less. My shoes, something else, even if brown leather brogues. And ties, if needed, are always silk and at least hand finished. Nothing less then silk in a tie can be permitted. But I am still very curious as to how and why designer labels have become this sign of wealth... for sure, most of us who wear this stuff do not pay the advertised retail price... often it is given to us to wear... and I do wear flannelette shirts from a discount supermarket. Designer clothing fits easier on the body and remains visually elegant, being less trauma to wear. Form comes after comfort. -- BLOG http://abdevpoetics.blogspot.com.au/