Do you typically buy name brand clothing or does brand not matter?

Brand generally doesn't matter to me - I'm more about price. However, something has to be equally as nice, well-fitting, and as good of quality as something name-brand for me to buy it. I always go in discount stores and see what's available - but if I need clothes, I don't buy mediocre clothes because of the price.

If I find something really awesome at a discount store - great! Typically this is shirts, dresses, socks, and sometimes casual shoes. Right now I have an awesome pair of high-tops I got for $15, some of my favorite flats have been under $10, and I have more than enough dresses I've paid under $10 for.

I don't think I've ever bought a pair of jeans at a discount store, and for the last 3 years I've bought only one main brand which averages $110 per pair. Sure, I've tried on cheaper brands, and I even bought a $60 dollar pair of jeans, but they don't fit right, and I just don't wear them. The pair I do wear is uncomfortable compared to the expensive ones.

Name brand jeans, running shoes, and some undergarments are generally worth the extra cost for me. Though again - if it was that nice and in a cheap store, I'd buy it no problem. Those are things you just don't find for cheap, though.

My favourite is actually a combination of the two - cheap AND name-brand! I've learned what name-brand stores to hit to get the best, cheapest deals. Just because a store is overall expensive doesn't mean it's not the cheapest place around to get T-shirts, jackets, or whatever.

I also always hit the sale rack, and I've found some GREAT things in there. I'd say about 60% of my name-brand clothes come from the sale rack. Name brand stores can get great deals too - for example Guess, which is by no means cheap (at least not in Canada), has been known to give away $25 gift cards with a $75 purchase.

That's a significant savings, when you consider the price is 50 rather than 75. These places also tend to reduce the cost on their "out of season" clothes, say 100 to 80, then offer an additional 50% off, which again, is a great deal. Other stores will offer 50% off on everything but the newest arrival, and you can get some ridiculous deals that are cheaper than any discount store.

To be honest, discount stores aren't always the cheapest. Even Walmart which is pretty much known for being cheap has it's prices beat by brand names sometimes. A shirt might be 25 dollars but a similar name-brand one is only 20.

Alternatively, I recently went shopping with a friend for a dress for a wedding, and we found a great one at a discount store for $17, with a little jacket for $12. We went to the mall and saw the exact same dress (brand and all, though it was an obscure brand) in the window of a rather expensive store as a new arrival for $189 - the jacket was in the back of the store for $80. Chances are it was a pulled thread or a backwards tag that stopped it from being sold in the name-brand store, but who''s going to notice something like that?

It looked just fine. A local discount store also carried Abercromie and Fitch rejects for awhile - about $75/shirt in Canada at A&F, $10 at the discount store. There was NOTHING wrong with these shirts - most were either a shade off in color (unnoticeable) or the tag had been sewn in backwards.

No one is going to notice a thing like that, and it really doesn't affect the clothes. I generally don't shop at used clothing stores or yard sales for a number of reasons - 1. If it's dirty AT ALL, such as worn shoes, I won't touch it.

The possibility of sweat smell also bugs me. That stuff always smells like perfume in the store - probably washed in a heavy amount of fabric softener - so it's something you wouldn't notice until you got home. And I don't want someone else's sweat on me.

2. It has to look just about like new for me to buy it. If it's stretched out or has scraggly hems, no deal.

3. It still has to look good. That isn't to say I wouldn't buy something used.

I check out the used store a couple times a month - just last week I tried on a few DOZEN shirts and jeans - I didn't find a single one I liked. It just wasn't meant to be. I have bought a really nice jacket, a few purses, and a couple pairs of shoes from used stores, though!

For me, brands do factor at least a little. I don't put any importance on showing off labels or boasting about the brands I'm buying (and haven't done so since my junior high days thinking that Gerbaud jeans were the end-all, be-all of importance and status). What does matter to me is quality.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't buy top-of-the-line designer duds or goods...but I try not to buy super bargain basement. I did that for years, and all it got me was a bunch of clothing that never *quite* fit right and always looked just a little off. Pale imitations of some of the gorgeous clothing that other people were wearing.

Plus it never seemed to last very long. Cheap clothes fall apart quickly? Who knew?

! So the bottom line is that the brand does matter a bit if they have a reputation for excellent fit and build. But am I ever going to promote that label?

Nah. Not unless my mom can find one of my old IOU sweatshirts, then I'm TOTALLY going to wear it to the roller rink!

Personally I generally don't care that much. I won't pay a ridiculous amount for something if there is a cheaper, almost as good, option available. I also really dislike any name brands which have open labelling.

By this I mean t-shirts with large logo's or brand names plastered on the front, anything really with largely visible brand names on them. As for quality, there are plenty of quality non-name brands available. With name brands you are generally paying a substantial amount just for the name.

And even if they are great quality I don't need my clothes to last until the next ice age. It is usually reasonably easy to tell if an item of clothing is good quality by feel alone, and I usually use this (along with if I actually like how it looks) to help me decide whether or not to buy it.

I am a lot like you when it comes to clothes, except I don’t buy clothes at garage sales. The reason is that I never seem to find anything in my size. I do not really care about the brand of clothing I buy.

As long as it fits and looks half way decent and the price is right, I buy it. When I worked in an office, I would usually buy nice slacks and shirts at a couple plus size women’s shops in town. I really didn’t care what the brands were back then either.

These days, since I work from home, I buy all my clothes at Wal-Mart. They usually carry sizes for me at a reasonable price. I could never understand people paying high prices for brand name clothes and shoes.

I’ve never done that.

I'm very picky about clothing. I've never encountered a non-brand name item that was high enough quality for me to wear. Every time I try, I get disappointed.

Too many of the cheaper brand names cut corners on their clothing too. There are even certain brands of suits at Neiman Marcus that need to be avoided because they don't use 'best practice' construction techniques. Some people complain that cars aren't built the way they used to be.

Clothing isn't either. That said, I'm definitely not above getting a deal. Besides, if a good vintage find comes your way, it's always a good idea to take it.

I know of some people who search for vintage Allen Edmonds shoes and are always thrilled when they find a good pair.

I shop Goodwill, AMVETS and other local thrift stores for what I want. So I get name fashion at ridiculously low prices. I got JCPenny Cabin Creek, pull on jeans, Just my size, Hanes Her way, Picone, Vanderbilt, Lands End etc. for pennies.

So I don’t go out of my way to buy these things, I just happen to fall into them. What I do spend a good dollar on for famous name products are my foundations. I prefer the name brand Danskin and Playtex Athletic bras, Danskin or DR.

Dr. Scholl’s shoes, Dr. Scholl’s diabetic socks, and Spanks brand body shapers. If however if a high end department store is going out of business, like at the local mall, Millers went out, I took the opportunity to snag name brand items at dirt cheap prices.

I buy all our clothes at the Salvation Army thriftstore, the cheaper the better. Sometimes I even find new clothes there. Yes, I agree: if it is a name brand great!

But I don't seek out name brands. I just look for clothes that will fit us. My favorite pair of jeans are actually a pair of dusty purple color Calvin Kleins that I got used for $3.

They fit me perfectly, except I turn up the pants legs and make cuffs because I have short legs for my height. The jeans are about two inches too long. They are just perfect otherwise!

I feel good giving my money to the Salvation Army, too. I feel they support God's kingdom, in their own way.

For cloths I don't care what brand is on the label and won't wear shirts that advertise their brand. I feel they should give me the shirt and pay me if they want me to advertise for them.

I was born and raised in a province. When I was young, my mother didn’t buy me any brand clothing even once. All my clothes were of my fit.

They were made by a neighbor tailor. Now that I’m grown up, I don’t really look at brand clothing. I wear what I feel are durable, of good color, of good cut and most of all, comfortable.

But if I had the money, I’d always want to buy brand clothes because they are carefully tailored. But there are a lot of not-so-famous brands too that I like because they seem to know my fit well, lol. And since I’m a mom already and need to put everything in budget, I buy clothes that are cheap/on sale but of very good quality.

Thanks, they’d always look good on me.

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