We live in a capitalist society, obvi. So everything is based off of money, which translates into class, class correlates to privilege, and privilege equals power. Understand? As a result, we as humans who participate in this capitalist society do everything we can to elevate our class; or at least appear as higher class. This is because society has brainwashed us into seeing value in materials rather than quality or preference.
Now you may be wondering, why I am talking about this. Well let's break this down into clothing.
What you wear when you leave your house everyday, allows the outer world to infer things about your socioeconomic status. Do I agree with this? No, but it's just the truth. Let's think about it in terms of shoewear. Here we have: yeezys, nikes, adidas, vans, and eventually sketchers. The yeezys fall in the same category as balenciagas, louis vuittion, etc which represents the upper tier, or upper class. Nikes/adidas* equal the upper-middle class, and finally we have vans and sketchers which represent the upper-lower class and the poverty line. (not literally, this is an analogy kids, vocab word!).
When we walk out into the world, people take yeezys to take that you have money whereas if you wear sketchers you're assumed to be broke. Newsflash--millionaires wear sketchers and even more new balances. Now, I could careless what you wear. People like what they like, and some people like buying themselves expensive items. However, I'm here to say that nobody should judge another person if they don't have on the most expensive clothes.
DESIGNER DOES NOT EQUAL DRIP!!
This sounds like I'm mad, but I'm not. I'm more so disappointed ( I know I sound like a parent but hey it's the truth) that I live in a society where we look down on people for wearing a certain brand. People try to hard to appear like something they're not. There's a difference between being rich and wealthy for a reason. Those who "buy" (lol yikes.) expensive things just to say they have them aren't any better than people who can't afford it or just simply chose to wear other brands. I for one, hate to be a bandwagon and designer things were just never my style. It just sucks that if I go outside wearing vans, I'm percieved as broke or basic. NO! I just like what I like.
Even thoughI'm young and I can't technically afford designer things myself, I know that when I grow up it will still never be my thing. People can call me "white girl" (more on that in a future post) but I don't care. I'm clumsy and a mess, I would destroy something expensive in two seconds. Regardless, Vans have my heart.
I'm tired of the narrative that to dress nice you must throw on all your most expensive items of clothing. It's mostly cringey and sad to see that emphasized on social media. I hope we all become more mindful and humble.
*NOTE: I know that yeezys and adidas are the same brand, but I meant those random adidas they sell at JcPenny and discount stores that don't count as much as yeezys.
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