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Should any item of clothing ever cost thousands of dollars?

Here’s an outfit I put together on Polyvore a short while ago to represent the outfit I would wear out today if I could just log into Polyvore create an outfit click a button and have that outfit appear in the air in front of me. How awesome would that be?

Great Plains striped sweater  Zero Maria Cornejo Oversized double breasted coat Citizens of Humanity blue straight leg jeans Reiss D-ring black leather booties Mary Portas hobo handbag

I first started with a pair of gray booties” but as you can see from the picture above by the end the gray booties were gone.

In the set

(stripe knit topblack ankle bootsStraight Leg Jeanswinter coats ),

The Specifics

A Great Plains striped sweater with an $88 price tag” a Zero + Maria Cornejo Oversized double breasted coat with a $2″ 195 price tag a pair of Citizens of Humanity blue straight leg jeans with a price tag of $345 a pair of Reiss D-ring black leather booties a lack Mary Portas hobo handbag with a price tag of $180

The Question

Should any item of clothing ever cost thousands of dollars?

I’d love to be able to write a thought provoking five thousand word essay on why I think no article of apparel should ever cost thousands of dollars but unfortunately I’m not that good at organizing my thoughts in essay format.

I get that the reason high end designer things cost the kind of money they cost is because there are people who are willing and able to pay that kind of money who won’t question why a pair of shoes cost over a thousand dollars or why a coat like the one featured in the set cost over $2,000. Take these Dolce & Gabbana ankle boots for example:

Dolce&Gabbana ankle booties

Okay so these boots are highly ornate. Does that justify the $1833 price tag the fact that these ankle boots have an ornate gold and bronze metallic embroidered design? If the gold is real gold then okay I’d say that as long as if you can take the gold decorations off and take them to a pawn shop and walk away with at least $1500 in cash the $1 883 price tag is justified. Otherwise why should these shoes cost more than a 60-Inch 1080p 240 Clear Motion Rate Slim LED Samsung UN60ES6100 just for an example? All the shoes can do is decorate your feet make you appear 4½ inches taller while you have them on your feet enhance your outfit. Shoes don’t offer any long term benefit. Far from that wearing high heel shoes often means subjecting yourself to pain and discomfort. At least with a tv you can watch a comedy and get some laughter out of your day or you can watch an educational program and learn something. You can create memories spending time with your family watching a movie or a ball game or whatever. There is the potential for benefit that is greater and more valuable than the benefit of having your ego boosted by knowing you’re wearing Dolce & Gabbana shoes and that you look good in your shoes and whatever outfit you’re wearing with the shoes.

I’m not knocking anybody for buying thousand dollar shoes. Some of these shoes are downright gorgeous and I get the impulse to pay any amount to own something you just totally love and want. I’m just asking what can shoes really do aside from decorate the feet and accentuate clothes; and when you consider that shoes can’t really do anything except maybe if you’re being attacked and somehow manage to get your spike heeled stiletto off and impale your attacker in the forehead how can you look at the above pair of Dolce & Gabbana shoes next to the Samsung  60 inch TV with their price tags visible and not go “wait a minute” why would a pair of shoes cost more than a 60 inch TV”?

A pair of Dolce Gabbana shoes that cost more than a 60 inch samsung HD TV

Assuming the gold and bronze are not real let’s say you duplicate this shoe exactly same materials everything but it’s a knock-off and not the real Dolce & Gabbana. Suddenly the shoe is worthless.

Zeniqe
Zeniqe
Zenica is a character blogger that has been created by My Fashion Wants. The same person who writes the by Zenique (Zenica) posts also writes the posts for users Salima, AvenuseSixty.com and MrsBodenheimer. This is a creative endeavor on the part of AvenuseSixty.com.

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