Why do people buy this stuff?

First off, Don't knock it. That is where our bonus comes from. you should be telling everyone to go run out to ______ and buy one no two for all their kids!!!! LOL! the more people buy the ugly stuff that our stores sell the more we would get in bonus, and we NEED that bonus! but yea, they are ugly, you won't see Carrie in one unless one of the grandparents buy it.

Marketing is an applied form of behavioral science much more deveoloped than most people are willing to believe. The T-shirts you mention are but one indication of this. The low quality of political candidates elected to high office is another.

I myself don't get it. I also don't wear name brand, except for Big Dog brands. I am a bigger person and they know how to make clothes for the bigger person is the only real reason I wear there stuff. They cost about $25 for a T-shirt but I need at least a 4X and the larger the shirt them more material and stuff. When I was a farmer I'd wear any T-shirt that would fit, and my mom found a very high name brand T-shirt on a sale, I think she paid a quarter for it. I was the only farmer wearing a Tommy Hilfiger T-shirt. I will admit, it did fit nice and wore great.

Ugh I don't understand why people buy regular ol T shirts with fancy writing on them either! Everyone just wants to fit in. All the shirts aren't even cool 3 months later.

Ironic isn't it?? People (more like youngsters nowadays) rather pay for a simple plain looking t-shirt that bears some company's logo on it for hundreds (yes, it can go up to hundreds in my country), but isn't any interested at all in the same stuff, just without the logo, and more and one-tenth less the price. Life's like that. Branded staff is seen as a form of status symbol.

people buy things with brands name because they want people to say look there he or she has a lot of money even if they dont.it takes them with a special category.i cant imagine even if i have money to buy something for my child with brand name for only 2 0r 3 months.with that cost i'll buy her 2 dresses not only 1 t-shirt

I don’t get it either but even then I do buy such stuff sometimes. Even I have seen the same quality clothes, minus some minor embellishments, selling for a fraction of what they charge in superstores and malls. I usually buy the cheaper version from small shops or even footpath shops but on special festive occasions or if I am gifting somebody, I visit the trendy superstores.

no, I do not "get it" and have not succombed to such frivalties in my own childrens' wardrobes going so far as avoiding even character embelished clothes.. I think, and have thought for a very long time, if we are going to be walking billboards - then we should be paid! if in nothing else - discounted "logo" clothing, instead of inflated.

I don't get it, either. But I think labels help other kids label each other. Recently, my daughter said in reference to a girl she saw walking on our street, "Oh, she wears (X Brand). She's a snob." I reeled around, horrified that she had said that. I asked her why she thought that. She said that kids who wear such-and-such brand were this type of person, that brand another type. I went into my lecture about not judging people by what they wear or how they look. We were shopping at one of the popular stores for adolescents (I won't say the name, but it looks like a cabana and plays loud music.) A pair of blue jeans was $100! The jeans looked as if they had been through a shredder. Holes and faded. I couldn't believe people would buy such garbage! And I thought schools had dress codes about wearing torn clothes. Or because it's an expensive label, the school lets the kids get away with it? When I buy clothes, I buy them because I like them, not because they're a certain label. If it makes me go aww! or Ooh! I buy it. And usually only if it's on sale.

I am so not into brand names and paying for a logo when I can help it. If I find them on special yes why not I will get it but I am not paying full price for that. I have on ocasion when it was for presents and knew that the person likes the brand but I would not buy my 5 year old a t-shirt and pay that much when I know that after 2 times of him wearing it it would make no difference it will be as dirty and stained as the one for $3. But yes people buy them I have a friend that buys her kids only brand name and the sad thing is one of the girls is overweight and the clothes are too small but she insists on geting the largest size and the poor child looks so uncomfortable in them.

i never would pay that!! if i ever wear name brand anything i got it from a second hand store for like less than 5 bucks.. let the rich people be stupid and pay that and i will gladly take it later on for a few bucks

to write something (name or symbol, something) you have to pay something around 10$ so i would understand, anyway i don`t understand the people that pay 100$ (or more) on a Nike T-shirt which is exactly like one that costs 10$ but it`s not from Nike, the brand costs, if the brand costs much people will buy it to be "cool", my country is full of those kind of people