I mean those types of shirts are cheap af compared to stuff you’d get at a nice men’s clothing store…
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got $5 off on a pair of Dickies coveralls. assumed the big gaudy logo was making them harder to sell. someone bought a box of logos they needed to put somewhere. their loss, my gain.
I have to draw a line somewhere.
Big corporations? Yeah, those are a no go - I either avoid them altogether or try to cut off/cover the logos if that doesn't damage the item.
Bands, independent artists and others I might be directly in touch with - those I'm actually happy to support and I'm more than willing to pay full price.
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
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.
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.
Unless its a knockoff
But then it's often a lot cheaper
They’re currently being commercialized.
I bulk-buy white T-shirts, and dye them any color I want. What I want to get into next is silkscreen printing my own designs onto them, but it's kinda expensive-ish to start and I'm poor :p
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.
The only shirts I own are band shirts or plain black. Super cringe to advertise a brand imo.
Ironic, Mr. Spiderman
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.
That's always been my opinion, they should be free.
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.
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
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?
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?
You can ask them to not put all that crap on your car and they will begrudgingly comply.
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.
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
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They should pay me
Be famous and you can even get paid for wearing a logo
sightsteer for that which you support.
Actually, no, I disagree.
If anybody pays top dollar for branded material, congrats, you've proven to everyone how much of a gullible corporate shill you are. Wear that badge of shame proudly!
One small sense in which I’m proud of my younger self is that I had a similar insight to this around like 11, and pretty much decided then and there that I wasn’t going to pay to wear someone else’s logo (excepting bands & similar) and I would avoid wearing someone else’s logo if I wasn’t being paid to.
And I’ve pretty much stood by that. I’ve made some exceptions for smaller companies that I felt were doing something positive and worth promoting, or for open source things.
Ah my people.
Being a walking billboard never sat well with me either.
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.
You can buy plain t shirts at Michaels and they are nice. I have a bunch lol. I never printed anything in them I just wear them
all vehicles have big brand logos on front and back, and we all drive around like is normal
Pretty sure none of the shirts I have with any official logo were actually paid for, they were all given to me for free in one way or another. I have paid for shirts with parody logos though!
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