so youre all saying that because someone who can’t afford to buy designer labels might get offended…no one should ever have them regardless of their reasons for purchasing them. i see. makes perfect sense. your contention is that people are focusing too much on their labels as opposed to what they really are, but how can you possibly know that?
so now your mission in life is to make every single person with a designer label aware of his arrogance and rectify the problem by forcing him to shop at wal-mart. better, you want then to WANT to shop at wal-mart. you would have everyone shop at the same stores so that everyone should appear to be at the same financial and social status lest someone who is less fortunate be offended. that’s ridiculous. it’s not a matter of tznius at all. you assume that people do it to flaunt, but your accusations are ridiculous. true there are people who do it to flaunt, but your beef should be with them not with people who wear designers in general.
now some of you may be wondering why i’m fighting so passionately about this. it’s because i am sick and tired of threads like these were people show their colors so openly. why is it impossible to be happy with what you have? there are people who have money and there are people who don’t. the people who have more DO NOT CARE about how much money the less fortunate have, the less fortunate SHOULD NOT CARE WHAT THE WEALTHY HAVE! is a person their wallet? is a human being defined by how beautiful or run down his house is?
i can guarantee you that if designers took their labels off their clothing you people would still be complaining athat people are buying expensive clothing. so don’t make this a tznius issue, please. it really isnt. call a spade a spade.
you should know though, that money does not buy happiness. many wealthy people have miserable lives, family problems, illnesses in the family, so much tzaros…many poor people have wonderful lives, happiness, shalom bayis, simchas hachaim…noney does not buy you happiness. so please…stop focusing on what other people do or do not have, and just work on your own lives. make your life, no matter how much money you do or don’t have, the best life it can be.
just an example, i have a friend who has been trying to write a novel for years. each time he gets close he scraps it and starts again. one time i asked him why he chucks it each time, he answered “because tolkien would never have wrote like this”. this man will NEVER write a novel in his life. why? because instead of focusing on himself, and where he needs improvement, he’s focusing on an unattainable goal which is holding him back. the same could be said of this thread. stop focusing on the unattainable, worry about yourself. work with what you have. make the best life for yourself that you possibly can, don’t waste it worrying about what other people have that you can’t.