Sooo, have you ever spent money to wear advertising (eg Hilfiger)?

The other end of the advertising wars from the earlier poll

Edit: Just to split up NONONONONONONONO (so damn thing won't be so wide)

Who gives a flying fuck if you're wearing a shirt with the Tommy Hilfiger logo on it?!?!?!?!? Talk about sheeple!

The logo has to be bigger than a thumbnail. A company has to label their stuff, after all.

If so, I advertise almost daily.
And I'm proud to promote my favorite bands, by the way.

I just meant advertising for brand names. In the strictest sense, the Sierra Club t-shirt I'm wearing as I type this also counts as advertising, but that's not quite what I'm talking about either.

I had a couple band/tour T-shirts back when i was young. I can't think of any "billboards" I've worn in the past twenty-five years, but I was a teen / young-adult about the time the trend started, so it did get by my conscious for a couple years before I realized what it was about.

Now - pay me multiple millions of $ and I would, otherwise forget it.
It's one reason I trend heavily toward flip-flops as foot wear, they don't have logos.

Sometimes those clothes are more comfortable and they do hold up better at least the experiences I've had with so called 'trendy' clothing. I do buy some of those brands as well as other generic brands.

I happen to like Hilfiger clothes and feel they are made very well even if it's just a figment of my imagination. And I only buy Nike shoes b/c they to hold up well. I've had this one pair for three years and they look brand new. I bought a pair of New Balance and in 6 months the sole almost completely ripped off.

Thanks for letting me share.

in my experience, at least. :D

Your mileage obviously differs, however.

I'd probably wear their T-shirt 'cos I beleive in their products.

I have a friend who is a foot surgeon, and he says that they put a lot of research into New Balance. Plus, as they say, they come in widths, just like feet.

Balance shoes, for the most part. Nike seems to have become ever more style (many extremely ugly, to my eyes) over substance. NB's widths are great...I think Brooks has a good selection, too.

I've also had very good luck with New Balance shoes. I also have some shorts and t-shirts with their logo. I'm happy to recommend them to people.

I won't rule out any anti-Bush t-shirts though.

I never will again!
Unless it's an advertisement to boot Bush out of office, which I proudly wear all over the place.

Yesterday I wore my Axis of Evil shirt with pictures of Bush, Cheney and Ashcroft to the vet and to run a bunch of errands, and I got sooooo many responses - none negative! Mostly people saying "I LOVE your shirt, where did you get it?" (edit: to which I replied, "Online - Democratic Underground dot com!")

:bounce:

I bought a Coca Cola shirt for about $3 back in 1985, and have a few others that might be construed as product-placement (concert, event, record labels, environmental nonprofits and similar institutions, etc), but I avoid wearing overpriced shirts that loudly trumpet "Guess" or "Tommy F***ing Hilfiger" or whatever. They're uniformly such rip-offs, as if it was a great honor to advertise the marque (and, indeed, trendies do seem to think so), and I've always subscribed to the school that believes we should be paid for wearing such conspicuous-consumption-glorifying junk rather than the other way around. The only such shirts, etc, that I have were gifts and I rarely wear them.

to advertise their product for free. No, I don't wear that stuff.

they make a PROFIT on getting people to advetise for them.

Keep in mind, they SELL the stuff.

When I was in South Korea, I saw that to an unbelievable degree. Sporting brand names.

there is a pretty unbeleivable degree of it in the US too. Pro sports teams are corporations, after all. I haven't quite come to a decision regarding college sports teams, but am inclined to lump them in with the corporate branding insanity.

edit: how come I keep missing the "o" key today?

I do pay attention to this stuff; athletic shoes, blue jeans, I think that's about the extent of my "branding" and that's more than I would prefer, but it's nigh impossible to find those things withot at least little tags that identify the brand.

That fallen-over check mark. The big "N" in shoes.

The little red tag on the back pocket of blue jeans.

I have athletic shoes, because they're pretty necessary, but due completely to the N on the side of them I think twice before I put them on - do i really need to wear these today, or can I get by with flip-flops?

A little personal victory, I guess.

So, no, I don't wear DESIGNER LOGOS on their clothes for free advertising, but I love my team and I have so much stuff I could wear a different piece of clothing every day and not run out for 3 weeks.

American Chopper rules.

I went through a brief 'preppy' phase in high school...

what a fuckin' waste...

Have in the past. Nothing in the last 10 years.

The just fit well. Especially the 501s.

I'm a fashion victim. :eyes:

...there were brands like Generra and Union Bay! That was pretty much the beginning of the real prominent "billboard" phase.

After all, you're advertising for them for nothing.

you're advertising something, but I'm not sure it's Froot of the Loom! ;)