Me over here turning my free tote bags inside out, to not make ad impressions, and people ask me why.
As much as I agree with the sentiment, this would only really work if the brand doesn’t specialise on branded clothing, but something that doesn’t insist on advertising itself
Same with clothes and grocery shopping bags.
Even better, clothes without branding are cheaper than those that are branded.
Well, there’s shirts that don’t have a logo on them both expensive and inexpensive for varying levels of quality. The bigger brands just used them as a branding for a specific level of quality and marketing.
I mean those types of shirts are cheap af compared to stuff you’d get at a nice men’s clothing store…
As someone who detests shirts with logos, and so buys ones without them, I’m okay with the current state of affairs. I don’t want to feel like buying a normal shirt is a premium purchase
the one that makes me irrationally angry is the used car dealership advertising. like the decals are annoying, but the license plate covers/border things that people don’t take off.
like do you really want to be advertising chuck and donna’s used car emporium every time you drive your car?
No, but do you wanna spend five minutes taking the plate holder off for me?
Thats always the first thing that I do when I come home. The license plate cover comes off, the stickers come off the back window, and I tey to take the branding on the metal off without hurting the paint. If they want me to advertise they can take a grand off the price.
Woah there! A grand for a license plate cover!?
Don’t sell yourself so short. You need continuous value, like free oil changes or labor discounts.
You can tell them at the dealership.
Agreed. I said “don’t put any dealership badges on my car but put a stack of business cards in the glove box” and I gave them all out within a year.
You can ask them to not put all that crap on your car and they will begrudgingly comply.
Tried that when I bought mine, they just slipped a license plate ad on anyways. Threw that shit out when I got home.
Still better than the decals that are installed to be permanent.
chuck and donna’s used car emporium? hell yeah especially if they use one of those inflatable gorillas out front. it’s the standard boring
top: [COUNTY NAME][CAR BRAND][DAUGHTER’S PET I DON’T KNOW HOW THEY NAME THESE]
bottom: SALES DEPARTMENT [phone number]is a hard no
Mine are covered in Gorilla Tape. Once blacked out, the covers are quite nice.
hey guys, thrift stores are a thing, and a great way to get quality clothing for cheap.
a brand print doesnt mean better quality
YMMV.
The unbranded clothes can easily be Temu tissue-paper quality or so rough on the skin as to cause abrasions after walking around in them.
Branded clothing tend to have a higher floor, at least.
They also easily print logos on shitty tissue paper quality fabrics
You know that the REAL quality clothes don’t have labels? The stuff you buy at a tailor never looks fancy nor dons cool labels.
Also most fashion-brands are really shitty quality, made in Bangladesh, too. Because they know people only care for labels, not real quality.
You know that the REAL quality clothes don’t have labels?
Sticking a label on a piece of clothing doesn’t change it’s quality.
Also most fashion-brands are really shitty quality, made in Bangladesh
Textile mills in Bangladesh produce a wide range of qualities.
Unless its a knockoff
But then it’s often a lot cheaper
They’re currently being commercialized.
Go to local thrift or consignment stores. I’m probably living a better to do town but almost every neighborhood has their own.
Not even if its cheaper or free, they should pay you. I used to work at a musical instruments store and got lots of free brand shirts, I still wore them inside out to hide the logos.
The bigger the logo the less it costs. The expensive ones have usually a small well placed logo, so the post is already kinda right.
That’s always been my opinion, they should be free.
Only idiots wear shorts with logos on them.
Ahh… more downvotes. Thanks in advance.
i have no idea what this comment is. is it ragebait? is it smug? is it genuine? did they anticipate the downvotes because they believe this is an unpopular opinion? did they expect more downvotes? did they mean to say shirts? do they specifically scan for shirts without logos, no matter the price? do they think everyone in public with logos on his clothes is an idiot? does he have a superiority complex?
I’ll admit that there was a time I thought only idiots wore branded clothing. Partly because advertising, but mainly because some prints age terribly while the piece of clothing itself is fine.
That was before I realised how easy it is to connect with someone because of their clothing.
Na im just lazy i know i shouldn’t be wearing them
When I was a teenager, one year I got 3 nike shirts. Two were gifts, legitimate (as far as I could tell) nike ones with just the swoosh logo, one embossed with some plastic, the other printed I think. The other one was a cheap knockoff I bought at a farmer’s market.
The embossed one started falling apart the quickest, right at the edge of the plastic crap where the stiffness wore the threads faster.
Then the other legit one started coming apart at the shoulders.
The fake one lasted like 5 years longer than either of the real nike ones.
So now the popularity of a brand makes me weary of it because they might be using their name to create an illusion of quality.
Similarly, if a celebrity endorses something, it’s most likely because they are being paid a lot of money to do so, not because they care so much about how good it is that they want to spread the news.
Wary
I think all of my shirts either have no logo, or have a logo for something i like and want to talk about (eg: a band, a local attraction).
I wouldn’t want to advertise some soulless megacorp like adidas
Isn’t the idea that the brand advertises the wearer?
Absolutely, it’s for advertising how you wish to be perceived by the people around you.
I buy my shirts by the pound from a wholesaler. A buck or two a pop. They adequately keep the sawdust out of my chest hair.
Disposable clothing. A very bleak state of affairs.
Wish we could just own clothes that last, but I swear to God I have more luck raiding my parents closets for old Polos than buying off the rack.
I don’t consider them disposable, exactly. I don’t exactly intend them to be handed down through the generations (Exhibit A: I have no children) but I intend to keep them in service as long as any $40 logo tee is.
