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Thoughts on Displaying Designer/Label Names (or: Being a Walking Billboard)?
Posted: 28 July 2008 07:24 PM   [ Ignore ]
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Last week, I took my daughter and her friend to the Jonas Bros. concert, and in my crowd watching, I couldn’t help but notice a mom who was wearing an Ed Hardy T-shirt AND carrying an Ed Hardy bag. Ed Hardy stuff, of course, is far from subtle, and wearing two pieces at the same time was just a bit much for me. I’m not big, however, on wearing logo stuff period—and wondered where the rest of you fall on this issue. Was the Ed Hardy lady overdoing it, or is it just me?

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Posted: 29 July 2008 01:00 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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Wearing designer logo for me is okey if the logo is small and almost unnoticed.
But if the logo too obvious and big, then you are making right statement about walking billboard.
And wearing two designer’s logos? That designer should pay her some commission for advertising..

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Posted: 29 July 2008 04:57 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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Clothes should not wear you. Logos are too much of a statement of someone else. I want to wear MY clothes as an expression of me.

Too much designer action is a billboard and all it says is that the person isn’t confident in their own taste.

I think if you wear one logo, it should be one item and as discreet as possible. If you wear it for the status, all status is erased if you have to hit people over the head with it. People who know quality can spot it without the logo.

It’s like the person can’t believe that people would actually listen to THEM if they weren’t wearing designer which speaks to a lack of confidence, rather than a sartorial grasp of the language of clothing.

Power (status, wealth, attraction etc) is projected from knowing how to spot quality, not from logos.

Too much logo is like leaving the price tag on a garment, flapping wildly for all to see that wowee zowie you could afford Mr Big’s over priced item and you didn’t care much what it was as long as it was designer and expensive.

It becomes all about the money which is vulgar and not about the person which is ultimately what clothes should be-- a personal reflection of taste, a story we choose to tell others about ourselves.

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Posted: 30 July 2008 12:12 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]
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I don’t like logos. If you’re going to wear any logo at all, the company should be paying you a ton of money for the advertising. And two logo items is overkill even if the logo is subtle.

One thing that has been popular lately in my circles is small headscarves with beading on the forehead area. The beading is usually in a cute pattern. However, I’ve seen one with beading in the shape of “D&G;,” and one with beading in the shape of “GUCCI.” I was seriously tempted to ask the wearer how much those companies are paying her.

Good quality pieces draw attention to the woman and to how great she looks, which in turn gets really good word-of-mouth publicity for the company. They don’t need the wearers to wear logos.

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Posted: 30 July 2008 03:25 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]
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I think one logo item is OK.  2 or more logos...TACKY!!

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Posted: 31 July 2008 12:40 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]
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I actually like logos if it’s an inexpensive brand, because the capitalist in me likes the idea of promoting a good brand. It’s when the logo is of something stupidly expensive that it stops being a recommendation of quality and starts being a display of conspicuous consumption, and then it stops being my style.

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Posted: 31 July 2008 03:24 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]
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I don’t really like too many tags.  One is completely fine, but more than that is too much.

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