I never understood people saving up money to buy luxury branded products.. but then again those people wont understand people spending money on microtransactions and upgrading pc specs..

Casually Explained nailed it: "You might think you're cool for wearing a $5000 Giorgio Armani suit, but if you really were cool Giorgio Armani would pay you to wear their suits".

Asmongold takes the idea of “stealth wealth” to a whole new level.

Being in shape over rules any fashion advice, jacked guy with $5 shirt will always look better than the fat guy with the $300 Gucci shirt.

The biggest fashion hack I’ve discovered was to simply get in shape. You can get away with a $10 crew neck tee if you’re jacked and sub 15% bodyfat.

The really stupid thing about luxury goods is that you could use the same money to hire an artisan to make a custom product that is likely better quality and the money would go to people with useful skills rather than marketers.

Iphone people don't realize they're literaly the only ones who have to deal with green bubbles. The rest of us can make our text bubbles any color we want!

General rule for fashion items: The more prominent the brand displayed, the cheaper the materials. And if the item uses premium materials, it usually costs more than having a custom (tailored/bespoke) clone item made for you. Ralph Lauren purple label (top of the line) suits sell for around $12K - $14K each, but you can have a personal tailor make the same quality suit for around $6K - $8K. If you like this, check out Refashioned Hippie for her "Rich People S#!t Us Poors Have Never Heard Of" short videos. She constantly tears apart Balenciaga.

Wrangler jeans are about $20 to $30 and they are better quality than most jeans on the market. I told a co worker this and they said they don't buy cheap generic clothing. Wranglers are name brand and they are one of the original jeans. Some people really do see a higher price and just assume there is a higher quality. Yet people go buy a $100 pair of jeans that already have holes in them. You can't fix stupid.

As an Italian, I think the old money style looks like people trying to look Italian

If you see a poor person wearing Gucci/LV, theres a 99% chance its fake and was bought for 5 Bucks at a bazaar. They all know it and its just a normal part of their fashion.

There is definitely a difference between paying for brand and paying for quality,  as an emt i buy 200$ boots , not a brand thing but they last 3x as long as a 100$ doc martens

Rap music fuels a lot of this and these rich designers and business men know this.

Former employee of Louis Vuitton. A girl I was helping once said ‘’If I buy this I can’t afford rent…….but I deserve this I work so hard, I should have it’’. I’ve seen some version of this story countless time working there. Even when I would jokingly suggest not getting it, people were too hungry for it.

As for Asmons comments on fake pieces. You can tell very easily. It was entertaining at times to see wives come in to get their ‘’collector’’ pieces repaired that their husbands had bought them. Seeing couples loose it in front of you over it was always interesting.

My sister once told me, no matter what designer brand you wear, it will never look good if you're fat & ugly. Be fit, pleasant & presentable is what truly matters she says.

Ralph Lauren isn’t necessarily too expensive now. fyi, we sell RL at Marshalls for a more affordable price and it’s even more affordable when it goes to clearance sale

i grew up in a really wealthy family no one wore brands like gucci or armani they had expensive clothing like hugo boss suits but they had watches jewellery or clothing made by brands who no one would ever have heard of they have no marketing they aren't loud they are just the kind of company where they may have a tiny shop in london or paris who sell $10,000 coats which will last forever and have been in business since the 1700s

There’s a reason they don’t train kids in high school anymore. When my grandpa was in high school in the 60’s you could take electives like agriculture. Imagine that.

When I was between (real) jobs and earning my money as a waiter, I had an 18 year-old co-worker who proudly showed me the Gucci sneakers that she was gonna buy with her money. Those butt-ugly clownshoes cost 2500 Euros, lmao. She didn't own a car or nothing, and she definitely was not  born into money. I told her she was crazy but she couldn't understand why I was not as enthused as she. I also got a 16 year old cousin who proudly told me about his sure-fire way of judging whether a person was cool or a loser. He looks at their shoes and if they cost less than 200 bucks the person is probably not worth his time. Young people are so lost, it's actually crazy.

Any job with a tape measure has you doing fractional math. That stuff is fairly important, same with geometry, but having every 12th grader learning pre calculus, but not knowing how to balance a budget is proof that there’s a lot of waste