Reply To: Brand Names�Wasting Money

kkls45: It is certainly not ridiculous (but we already went there).

Sam2: Enough of this nonsense. Please put aside your ego and don’t try to argue only because you refuse to lose a machloches. It’s over, truly. Talk to your rav about this as I have with mine before you comment again, please I beg of you.In fact, it was my very rav that constantly beings this issue up in the first place.

I have read Mesilas Yesharim probably 40 or so times by now. We learn it for our mussar seder everyday in yeshiva.

I know there are various madreigos to climb, such as not socializing at all and fasting. Spending thousands of dollars on elegant clothing is not in that category. I cannot have a rational conversation with you if you believe that. The Rambam says it is pashut no one should wear these things.