What is your Fashion Pet Peeve?

contraception is the solution, nothing else.

Present: you own Chinese products

Future: Chinese own you.

Originally Posted by Big Punisher

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uughh I know even worse their fave rapper.

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Wearing dress pants at the office, and office pants at a party... Big no no.

Oh no. Anything I say will be in public.

I really don't care about a horror story you read in some magazine. Every single developing country not to mention those that are fully developed are guilty of this. My comment about the Italian market is accurate. There are people who post here that already gave us the lowdown on Italy and the whole made in Italy spiel.

I laugh whenever someone thinks the answer to this problem involves boycotting a country of manufacture. How many legit manufacturers are there in China versus the dirtbags? Does it solve the problem? No. What will solve the problem is the continued inflow of capital along with responsible choosing of off shore manufacturers by the design houses.

Originally Posted by Mild Mannered

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contraception is the solution, nothing else.

It always drives me crazy to see people who button the bottom button of their jackets. Also, I've seen two or three people recently wear overcoats/jackets without having ever removed the sleeve label. What the hell is that???

Originally Posted by EdenResident

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I haven't been back to my country much but I've heard the condition of sweatshops has gotten better.
Perhaps they've sprung for some air conditioners?

How else will other people know it's Lauren by Ralph Lauren, or Sean John, if they don't leave the labels on their overcoats/jackets?

I hate the word "dapper". People (women) throw it around too often to amjacks.

anything ill fitting

besides cents in a country is not the same as cents here. The cost for things is way cheaper. It's not ideal, but what can you do? can't save everyone. Besides, you CAN find quality products in China if you look for it. And a quality product in china, beats **** made in Italy. If you really cared about all the starving kids, might as well not buy versace, or anything. Shop goodwill, and buy only necessities, and use the rest of your money to help out kids in need.

Originally Posted by doctorj!

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Mine is clothing made in China/Indonesia/India etc. Something about the thought of the clothing I am wearing is made by a child in a sweat shop is just horrible. It seems that its very difficult to avoid as many many shops and designers use these countries. As of now, I am trying to stick to: USA, Italy, Switzerland, England, and Canada. I THINK these are ok. What is yours, and what is your take on clothing/accessories made in sweat shops? AJ
I don't want to derail this thread, but you should read up on the economics of the situation with sweatshops. When you do, you'll find a strong correlation between their presence and increased economic growth benefiting all, wages more than 3x per capita GDP, and even an improved quality of life than the alternatives. Benjamin Powell penned a very well-written, and extremely approachable, article in EconLib last year. I suggest you take a few moments; it's a wonderful starting point. Thomas DiLorenzo also wrote an excellent piece for the Mises Institute. Either is a great starting point for exploring the facts of the situation, instead of emotional stories that distort the truth through fallacious argumentation. Regarding the bound child in China, do realize that one outlier is not representative of the whole. Fallacious reasoning aside, try to keep in mind that, when trying to make a point, editorialists love to look for the worst possible example of the "horrors" they're writing about. The fact that it's non-representative can be damned; it tugs at the emotional heart strings and that's good enough. And, if the story comes from a forced labor camp (as of late, rarely found outside of a handful of remote Chinese locations), so much the better. Never mind the non sequitur implications. When you look at the data, you'll see that the so-called "sweatshops" are in fact one of the few mechanisms that can be leveraged in these countries to increase the standard of living across the board. These countries offer next to nothing in terms of absolute advantages. About the only thing they have is incredibly cheap labor (by our standards, mind you) that they can leverage as a comparative advantage in terms of production. Take that away, and third-world countries will remain nothing more than hellholes for years to come. Foreign investment is the only route they have for bettering themselves. So, I must ask, why would anyone, especially with a heart as anti-sweatshop activists are so oft of mentioning, want to do that? I also want to make one final point: costs of livings are not comparable between the western world and these 3rd world states. $2 in Cambodia is far from the same as $2 in the United States. Anti-sweatshop activists consistently manage to gloss over this simple little fact, in favor of appealing to the "oh, wow! I spend more than that on a bottle of water! Gasp! How horrible!" mindset so oft found in their ranks. So, if I had to nail down my biggest fashion pet peeve, it would probably be those who jump on the anti-sweatshop bandwagon without ever looking at the data and the realities of the situation. If they did, they'd line up to buy those Cambodian sweaters (provided the quality is there, of course). A close runner-up would, of course, have to be ill-fitting clothes.

Originally Posted by Film Noir Buff

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Perhaps they've sprung for some air conditioners?
I'm surprised you didn't post some picture to go with, or in lieu of, a written response.

3 things -

Clothes that don't fit.
Underwear(top or bottom) showing in public.
Labels and/or pricetags intentionally left on clothes.

jacket sleeves too long that show no shirt cuffs.

Pants being too long