I do not have a $1,200 Purple Label Ralph Lauren sweater; an expensive fix is no better than a cheap drug ...
I was in T.J. Maxx the other day and I saw a $1,200 Purple Label Ralph Lauren sweater going for $400. There were like 30 Polo Ralph Lauren sweaters on sale for $99, from around $300 or more, and a handful of sweaters like this one from the Purple Label collection; originally $600, $800, extremely high prices. The wool was so soft, the details were so great, it would be really nice to have one of those sweaters.
Back in the late nineties I was really sweating those sweaters. For me the life would have been to have a wardrobe full of those sweaters, trousers, shirts, jeans, shoes. Nothing less than $300 in the closet. I usually keep around 100 items in the closet. But I don't have a $30,000 closet. My closet is more like an $800 wardrobe.
I went back into T.J. Maxx today and looked around for a $12 sweater that I had seen but wasn't too sure that I wanted to buy. I did find some interesting items, including some really high priced Diesel attire that was on clearance for $99. I couldn't even afford a $40 marked down wool coat, and to add insult to injury, all of that Purple Label I saw the other day was gone.
Perhaps my priorities have changed. There were a few different occasions in which I could have spent $400 without blinking an eye. Sure you could throw it on a credit card, but that just seems ignorant to me. With the credit card, that $400 discount could easily turn into a $2,000 purchase, and you actually lose money on the sweater.
So I continue to buy clothing from a thrift store. One day I actually did score a $300 pair of Purple Label trousers for $7. Who knows when I could do that again. I do not get my fix by blowing $400 on an item. I get it by spending $50 for a $1,200 item. I am under the impression that you can get anything for $50 if you search high and low for it, turn over rocks and go completely underground into the most abominable nooks and crannies. I got a $300 coat for $15, and I plan on doing so again. No thrift store that time, that was actually at Burlington Coat Factory.
I don't know if the individual who purchased the discounted $1,200 sweater did so on a credit card. Perhaps they had a few thousand they wanted to blow after the holiday season and decided to blow it on some Purple Label. I ended up finding an $8 sweatshirt, it wasn't the best deal, and it wasn't my best work. But I am tired of the relentless pursuit of fashion. There is always a $1,200 sweater somewhere, lurking in the corner, calling out to me, taunting me. There is always a $500 pair of jeans, or a $2,000 pair of shoes. As soon as you make that purchase you have to turn around and make another one.
Shopaholics, fashionistas, and clotheshorses know about this heroin we call fashion. It can get under your skin and cause you to do strange things, return items, sell items, trade, barter, whatever just to get one more thing that you do not need. You always keep a few hundred items on hand; just in case. My mother still has clothing from the eighties in vacuum sealed bags. It is a terrible way to live, and we are all hoarders, to an extent. But these are the simple pleasures in life. Well at least it should be, sometimes it feels as though there is nothing simple about it ...
Back in the late nineties I was really sweating those sweaters. For me the life would have been to have a wardrobe full of those sweaters, trousers, shirts, jeans, shoes. Nothing less than $300 in the closet. I usually keep around 100 items in the closet. But I don't have a $30,000 closet. My closet is more like an $800 wardrobe.
I went back into T.J. Maxx today and looked around for a $12 sweater that I had seen but wasn't too sure that I wanted to buy. I did find some interesting items, including some really high priced Diesel attire that was on clearance for $99. I couldn't even afford a $40 marked down wool coat, and to add insult to injury, all of that Purple Label I saw the other day was gone.
Perhaps my priorities have changed. There were a few different occasions in which I could have spent $400 without blinking an eye. Sure you could throw it on a credit card, but that just seems ignorant to me. With the credit card, that $400 discount could easily turn into a $2,000 purchase, and you actually lose money on the sweater.
So I continue to buy clothing from a thrift store. One day I actually did score a $300 pair of Purple Label trousers for $7. Who knows when I could do that again. I do not get my fix by blowing $400 on an item. I get it by spending $50 for a $1,200 item. I am under the impression that you can get anything for $50 if you search high and low for it, turn over rocks and go completely underground into the most abominable nooks and crannies. I got a $300 coat for $15, and I plan on doing so again. No thrift store that time, that was actually at Burlington Coat Factory.
I don't know if the individual who purchased the discounted $1,200 sweater did so on a credit card. Perhaps they had a few thousand they wanted to blow after the holiday season and decided to blow it on some Purple Label. I ended up finding an $8 sweatshirt, it wasn't the best deal, and it wasn't my best work. But I am tired of the relentless pursuit of fashion. There is always a $1,200 sweater somewhere, lurking in the corner, calling out to me, taunting me. There is always a $500 pair of jeans, or a $2,000 pair of shoes. As soon as you make that purchase you have to turn around and make another one.
Shopaholics, fashionistas, and clotheshorses know about this heroin we call fashion. It can get under your skin and cause you to do strange things, return items, sell items, trade, barter, whatever just to get one more thing that you do not need. You always keep a few hundred items on hand; just in case. My mother still has clothing from the eighties in vacuum sealed bags. It is a terrible way to live, and we are all hoarders, to an extent. But these are the simple pleasures in life. Well at least it should be, sometimes it feels as though there is nothing simple about it ...
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