I always thought this about cars. You should get a discount by letting them stick their name and symbols all over it for their free advertising.

Even better, clothes without branding are cheaper than those that are branded.

Eqivalent to a mobile billboard, so they should be paying the wearer.

Wearing brand name on you is such a bitch thing to do.

the one that makes me irrationally angry is the used car dealership advertising. like the decals are annoying, but the license plate covers/border things that people don't take off.

like do you really want to be advertising chuck and donna's used car emporium every time you drive your car?

Not even if its cheaper or free, they should pay you. I used to work at a musical instruments store and got lots of free brand shirts, I still wore them inside out to hide the logos.

Me over here turning my free tote bags inside out, to not make ad impressions, and people ask me why.

Only idiots wear shorts with logos on them.

Ahh… more downvotes. Thanks in advance.

As much as I agree with the sentiment, this would only really work if the brand doesn't specialise on branded clothing, but something that doesn't insist on advertising itself

hey guys, thrift stores are a thing, and a great way to get quality clothing for cheap.

Isn't the idea that the brand advertises the wearer?

Same with clothes and grocery shopping bags.

As someone who detests shirts with logos, and so buys ones without them, I'm okay with the current state of affairs. I don't want to feel like buying a normal shirt is a premium purchase

One small sense in which I’m proud of my younger self is that I had a similar insight to this around like 11, and pretty much decided then and there that I wasn’t going to pay to wear someone else’s logo (excepting bands & similar) and I would avoid wearing someone else’s logo if I wasn’t being paid to.

And I’ve pretty much stood by that. I’ve made some exceptions for smaller companies that I felt were doing something positive and worth promoting, or for open source things.

all vehicles have big brand logos on front and back, and we all drive around like is normal

I mean those types of shirts are cheap af compared to stuff you’d get at a nice men’s clothing store…

I think all of my shirts either have no logo, or have a logo for something i like and want to talk about (eg: a band, a local attraction).

I wouldn't want to advertise some soulless megacorp like adidas

I buy my shirts by the pound from a wholesaler. A buck or two a pop. They adequately keep the sawdust out of my chest hair.

When I was a teenager, one year I got 3 nike shirts. Two were gifts, legitimate (as far as I could tell) nike ones with just the swoosh logo, one embossed with some plastic, the other printed I think. The other one was a cheap knockoff I bought at a farmer's market.

The embossed one started falling apart the quickest, right at the edge of the plastic crap where the stiffness wore the threads faster.

Then the other legit one started coming apart at the shoulders.

The fake one lasted like 5 years longer than either of the real nike ones.

So now the popularity of a brand makes me weary of it because they might be using their name to create an illusion of quality.

Similarly, if a celebrity endorses something, it's most likely because they are being paid a lot of money to do so, not because they care so much about how good it is that they want to spread the news.

I bulk-buy white T-shirts, and dye them any color I want. What I want to get into next is silkscreen printing my own designs onto them, but it's kinda expensive-ish to start and I'm poor :p

Well, there's shirts that don't have a logo on them both expensive and inexpensive for varying levels of quality. The bigger brands just used them as a branding for a specific level of quality and marketing.

I have to draw a line somewhere.

Big corporations? Yeah, those are a no go - I either avoid them altogether or try to cut off/cover the logos if that doesn't damage the item.

Bands, independent artists and others I might be directly in touch with - those I'm actually happy to support and I'm more than willing to pay full price.