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Catherine you have just reminded me -when I was a kid and my father had 'disappeared' she at one time had a job of sewing in 'designer labels' into all sorts of dodgy clothes!! At a fairly recent Royal Academy summer show there was a jacket? completely made out of designer labels -a nice comment Cheers Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Catherine Daly Sent: 13 May 2013 15:36 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: designer label clothing... question When my family lost everything, Mom had used clothing stores, and I was her buyer. Dad had shoe stores, and I read Footwear News everyweek, and advised him. I have a lot of great friends in the industry, and I know a lot of poets who use that fashion... young, old, whatever.I do this as well. Sonia Delaunay I think Charles Bernstein rag trade interview by Susan Schultz is nice. http://www.jacketmagazine.com/14/schultz-bernstein.html All best, Catherine On 5/13/13, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Certainly, it tends to be first world,' Chris. > > A lot of us dont really notice, but probably do wear the stuff, just > because it's in the stores (where I look for stuff on sale if possible). > > Like you, I want the cloth etc to feel good... > > Doug > On 2013-05-10, at 8:25 PM, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> 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/ >> > > Douglas Barbour > [log in to unmask] > > http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ > http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ > > Latest books: > Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy) > http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962 > Recording Dates > (Rubicon Press) > > You know, verse > is a lovely thing. > > It issues, > like the vapors, > > from the rock > > Charles Olson > > > > > > > > > > > >