Brand Names: Care to comment?

[bsodmike]

First off, thanks to everyone for all their input...wow...never expected so many fun viewpoints

To answer your initial questions bigblue:

As above really, why did you tell us that? It's not crucial to your point, you could have just said...

LOL...I got carried away...I tend to ramble on these days...call it boredom It could be a serious side effect of having to 'waffle' at many essay-type exams ...*shudder* (I prefer math based exams thank you!)

Also mind you, I was out shopping with Mom since she'll only be in London for another week or so. Don't paint me as some 'bozo' who goes out clothes/fashion shopping on a weekly basis LOL (it's more like once or twice per year...if at all!)

That seems to me as if you're saying you don't like the sort of brands that many average folk aspire to, that they're not good enough for you, that you prefer more upmarket, less "common" brands. No?

It's not a matter of them being common. Heck, you can stop me right there for wearing a couple Rolexes - it's the most 'common' watch brand out there...and it doesn't stop me from liking them.

JLC, Patek Philippe, IWC, A. Lange make pieces far superior in terms of finishing, complications as well as from a haute horologie aspect but also in very limited pieces (circa 30k watches per year, compared to 800k by Rolex). It's no secret that I'm a fan of Patek as well...but that's a different story..um, back on topic...

As I think I mentioned earlier, all my clothing is hand tailored since nothing in-store will ever fit me and for that reason I've never really been exposed to brand names as far as clothing is concerned - I've never been able to wear any. Clothes 'shopping' for me always means a visit to my tailor in Singapore.

I have never step foot inside a D&G, CK (etc) store...apart from probably having to brush past sections of clothing in larger malls when moving from point A to B - and I've never stopped because none of them will ever fit =)

I think the reason for the rolling of eyes with those brands is that they're two of the usual ones that "average" people buy when they're attempting to show off. But if enough "average" people buy such a product, eventually that type of person becomes the companies average customer, devaluing the brands image. Hence why some previous LV customers won't buy LV now. Look at what happened to Burberry, similar thing.

Ah! thanks for answering my question...I know what you mean by the Burberry thing, as I recall reading an article about it some time back.

[bigblue]

First off, thanks to everyone for all their input...wow...never expected so many fun viewpoints

Thanks for the topic! A bit different from the norm, and very interesting

LOL...I got carried away...I tend to ramble on these days...call it boredom It could be a serious side effect of having to 'waffle' at many essay-type exams ...*shudder* (I prefer math based exams thank you!)

No worries. Hope it didn't sound harsh I just thought it was a bit unusual that you'd tell us what you bought in LV while wondering about peoples brand perceptions!

It's not a matter of them being common. Heck, you can stop me right there for wearing a couple Rolexes - it's the most 'common' watch brand out there...and it doesn't stop me from liking them.

Fair enough Maybe it was just the brands you mentioned. The first lot you mentioned aren't really ones I think of as genuinely upmarket, the second lot were.

Ah! thanks for answering my question...I know what you mean by the Burberry thing, as I recall reading an article about it some time back.

Yup, it's taken Burberry a fairly lengthy period to put their "bad" period behind them. Though with millions of "Burberry chav" images floating about the web I'm not sure they ever will!