Consumer Goods :: miscellaneous

Consumer GoodsA fewer years ago I was walking around my old hometown, Portland, Oregon. I walked past a basketball court full of teens erosion away Ambercrombie fit outs and Nike shoes. Bro, why dont you father some of these calm 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 bills on expensive popular costume when I already like what I was habiliment.As you can see by my experience, many Americans, peculiarly eminent school students, shop to look cool by wearing popular clothing. They emphasize wearing the compensate type of clothes. For instance, an adolescent clothing addict named Delia Cleveland believed clothes made the woman and everything else was secondary (193). Teenagers buy the right clothes so theyll be popular. In high gear 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 then respect them. However, its not always about wearing a legitimate 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 get out such a big deal 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 pound picked on. I have had many friends in this situation. This can make them get used to wearing popular clothing, and then they really start doing it, perhaps even to show off their clothes. Luckily Ive never had to go to high school (I was homeschooled), so I havent had to go through with looking cool by wearing popular clothing. IN my opinion, clothes are clothes, and it doesnt make any difference what they loo k like. But in America today, practically 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.