re: Do You Wear Clothes From Walmart?

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I believe it is an innate character flaw in all humans that we need someone to look down on and something to make ourselves feel superior to others. For some, it's their itelligence. Others, their athletic skills. Others, their ability to attract the opposite sex, musical talent, wealth, car, ect.

Wealth has always been a class divider and a status symbol. Clothing is more often then not, the most obvious and easiest vusual clue of social and wealth class. But, if everyone has school uniforms, and is thus wearing the exact same thing, how does one tell the difference or differentiate themselves? Brands.

Some are associated with lower classes, and others are associated mid classes, try hards, or actual high classes (note: actual high class people rarely wear things with visible brand names because they don't need people to know they have money. When you've got it, you don't have to flaunt it).

Since there has always been a stigma against being poor, the place one's clothes come from becomes an arbitor of social status. If you're not attractive, or smart, or funny, or gifted woth some kind of talent, then people better think you're rich or they won't like you. Sucking at everything, but people thinking you aren't poor is at least marginally better than the worst status possible: sucking at everything and everyone knowing you are also poor.

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