Picture this: Last month, I saw a lady carrying a monogrammed LV bag on a traffic signal. She was in her 30s and was riding pillion on a four stroke two wheeler. Difficult to picture, right? Though, I am not casting any aspersions on her buying capabilities, but she surely didn’t look like the one who can first of all afford an LV bag and secondly carry it off with the same panache as a socialite in page3 parties. That was a rare sight and it will be etched in my mind for a very long time. I have never seen the combination of a two-wheeler and an LV.
Another day, I was attending this party at a suburban pub. As soon as I entered, I saw pretty much every second guy wearing the ghastly fake Ed-Hardy t-shirt. I anyways have low regards for Ed-hardy prints because I think it’s highly over-rated and on-top-of that, the guys were trying to pass off an imitation as original. So they were actually thinking that we would believe that they have bought an effing 6000 rupees t-shirt for a My-cousin-has-got-distinction celebration. Yes why not?? coz they've passed graduation with 90% marks and landed a great job in a huge MNC firm which pays them 5 digits salary?? Really?? And pigs are orbiting planet Earth. As amazing as the story may sound, but thats highly impossible for an average 20 year old Indian to buy those things.
Don’t even ask about Fake Diesel Jeans. It would actually require a detailed research report by McKenzie titled as “Why Renzo Rosso would commit suicide when he comes to India?” to understand the magnitude of this rampant, highly successful, unorganized business. Don’t people like spending on quality products? Can’t people buy products that are good investments for a long time than just being one-week-wear? Is it time to go back to showrooms and buy ORIGINALS?
My point may seem really shallow if I consider the real problems of real India and what people have to go through every day to earn their living and so on. Who cares about clothes right? So, if you are the one who REALLY do not care about clothes, why would you even consider flashing big brands on your chest? Shouldn't that be the last thing going on in your mind? Shouldn’t you be buying the local brands and in turn legitimately help your country and its people to earn some money? Brands don’t matter, what matters is how you are carrying off the clothes you are wearing.
I appreciate those people who look best in whatever they can afford. You have some fantastic local brand stores where you can set your feet in. All you need to do is pick up the best from the lot. You won’t believe, I sometimes find better clothes in these stores than the top fashion brands. Wearing fakes is a form of piracy and piracy is crime. Whether you buy a pirated DVD, download torrent files or wear fake t-shirts, it’s all the same. You are mocking someone’s work of art and it means huge losses to them. Besides piracy, it just looks plainly stupid.
Sooner or later, the girl or boy you are trying to impress will come to know the truth. That this person is a manifestation of sheer travesty and has low or zero self-confidence which he/she keeps trying to hide behind some cool sounding hard to pronounce French brand names. I will say, wait for your turn, till you start earning that much. Everyone gets a chance to wear originals one day in their lives. Our MANGOs and APPLEs will come our way. Till that time, just enjoy these for what they are meant for…eating.
by S
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Monsieur Steve
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