Consumer Goods :: miscellaneous

Consumer GoodsA few years ago I was walking around my old hometown, Portland, Oregon. I walked yesteryear a basketball court full of teens stoping Ambercrombie shirts and Nike shoes. Bro, why dont you get some of these cool clothes, rather than that boring and odd shirt you have on? one of them said to me. No, thanks. I like what I have on. I wasnt going to let them persuade me to waste my money on expensive democratic clothing when I already liked what I was wearing.As you can see by my experience, many the Statesns, especially high school students, shop to count on cool by wearing popular clothing. They emphasize wearing the right hand type of clothes. For instance, an adolescent clothing addict shitd Delia Cleveland believed clothes made the woman and everything else was secondary winding (193). Teenagers buy the right clothes so theyll be popular. In high schools today, many students are seen with an Ambercrombie & Fitch label or shirt bearing the name of the company. Thats because they repeatedly rank it near the top in terms of coolness. (Cave 199). By wearing the A&F clothes, people see them as cool and accordingly respect them. However, its not always about wearing a certain companys clothes to look cool it can be about wearing the right color clothes or buying caps that show a logo of a sports team.Why do teenagers make such a big agglomerate out of wearing the right kinds of clothes? A big reason is the fact that many of them go to rough high schools, so they have to wear the right type of clothes, because if they dont, they might get picked on. I have had many friends in this situation. This can make them get used to wearing popular clothing, and accordingly they really start doing it, possibly even to show off their clothes. Luckily Ive never had to go to high school (I was homeschooled), so I havent had to go with with looking cool by wearing popular clothing. IN my opinion, clothes are clothes, and it doesnt make any difference what they look like. But in America today, often thats not the case.Another reason people buy what they buy is because the media influences them greatly, with symbols and rule-breaking strategies. On the telvision today I often see commercials influencing the viewer to buy a prodcut, one way or the other.