Forget $20 pants; most of the time I wear $5 pants from the thrift store!
I have been known to splurge on expensive clothing, though. When you spend $300 on a pair of pants, you're probably paying for a very specific material, fabrication, cut, and tailoring. And you'd wear it to very different places than you'd wear the $5 jeans from the thrift store.
On the other hand, though, I can never go shopping in malls like the one you just went to. (Where do you live, New York City??) The scale of prices is just too different than what I've got. It's not every day-- or, heck, every year-- that I can afford to spend $300 on a pair of pants! I so hate going into a nice store, finding a sweater that I think I could get away with, and then finding it's $150. I don't have $150!
I do like the process of shopping, of checking out stores and seeing what they've got, but whenever I go into ritzy places like the one you probably went to, I feel a sense of dislocation-- like you said, like it's another planet.
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I have been known to splurge on expensive clothing, though. When you spend $300 on a pair of pants, you're probably paying for a very specific material, fabrication, cut, and tailoring. And you'd wear it to very different places than you'd wear the $5 jeans from the thrift store.
On the other hand, though, I can never go shopping in malls like the one you just went to. (Where do you live, New York City??) The scale of prices is just too different than what I've got. It's not every day-- or, heck, every year-- that I can afford to spend $300 on a pair of pants! I so hate going into a nice store, finding a sweater that I think I could get away with, and then finding it's $150. I don't have $150!
I do like the process of shopping, of checking out stores and seeing what they've got, but whenever I go into ritzy places like the one you probably went to, I feel a sense of dislocation-- like you said, like it's another planet.