it's definitely true for some stuff

🤣🤣🤣🤣 don’t buy it? It’s a literal fact 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Regardless, people can get angry at reps all they want. The folks wearing them don’t give af. I have yet to meet a grown adult who cares about these things. Plus a lot of these fast fashion brands (mnml) just source from rep factories anyways, which shows how little people care

yall obviously care lol

Nope, I just find it comedy.

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what up

I can tell you have a great style just by seeing what you post in this section in general and in the pickups thread

I've been lurking

he tryna get a hit

damn thank you

Some people can’t afford authentic s***. Some people don’t want to pay resale prices.

Especially little kids in middle and high school. You can’t expect them to have multiple thousands to spend on clothes. Let them buy reps, it’s not like there’s a huge drop off in quality anymore.

And if the argument is that it’s bad that they’re buying them to fit in. Then everyone needs to take a step back and remember how badly they wanted to fit in as teenagers too. That’s just part of growing up.

Sachee says desire is knowing what you want while not having the means to get it. He calls it the most important part of fashion. This is a foreign concept to anyone with bread. There isn’t anything you want that you can’t just buy. It’s also now a foreign concept to him as he now says he’s at the point where he can get anything he wants. So doesn’t he also lack desire? Isn’t his style longer evolving according to his own rules?

Just reading too much into it. I been collecting shoes for decades, buying designer for over a decade, the only thing that ever stopped me from buying reps was quality. The quality gap is shrinking so it just makes sense now.

rick owens looks like the davis model

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40 likes on shoes i listed and not one offer

There’s metaphysical nuance to the argument about ‘fakes’ that in itself can hardly be spoken of in a public setting. it is essentially bound with the word ‘counterfeit’ and the question of the symbolism of the thing, and what the greater thing is that is being communicated through the symbol. The only question to ask is ‘is there even an authenticity to what is being symbolised through the authentic or supposedly counterfeit product?’ Or is the cult-ure counterfeit in the first place? it’s then a question of how naturally subservient one is, not only to a culture that is void of class distinction, but to a corporate master who acts as arbiter of that gelatinous and featureless ‘mass culture’

Nigga f*** Grailed bruh. S***ty ass platform. Just got banned for no reason. S*** piss me off

depop?

Why don't they just buy s*** from the mall or vintage clothes like normal teenagers lol. No one expects a highschooler to walk around in Balenciaga and Rick Owens

is there real true authenticity, class, sophistication etc., behind luxury brands? there's lots of nuance and history from the brands themselves and from people that have worn them and given different meanings over time to make it not so simple

at a basic level it is just someone giving their money to a rich corporation that in some way has a hand in screwing over working class and poor people, so if thats where someone stands it doesn't concern them anyway and it is a simple answer of it being 100% no, and wearing reps or not wearing those brands at all makes sense with that distinction

ultimately people choosing to wear luxury brands, even fakes, is a statement, it is part of the style discussion and makes subversive style decisions stand out more to those paying attention, so in its own way its valuable to making culture

someone who dresses with more thoughtful intention will understand to a higher degree what they choose to wear and how they dress is informed and has reason beyond looking fantastical or cool or trendy or being a status symbol, so if that means wearing reps as some 4D chess move, then they can do that, I'm definitely not inclined to do that

the rabbit hole goes so deep that you can talk yourself in or out of wearing anything based on the level of understanding you have/perceive yourself to have, so I try to avoid going to that place and wear what I find to be fun and interesting and represents me as best I understand myself

na grailed

take new pics with different background and repost it if it gets to a stage of sitting for too long

They can do that but they see their favorite rappers, influencers, social media people rocking certain stuff so they want it too

There’s nothing wrong with that

People act like back on KTT1 F&S we ain’t have young folks buying s*** just to get props from Woody, Trev, people in the pick up thread, try and get a FOTD, win a round of style wars, etc

They’re just kids. Telling them to not buy jordan 1s and buy some s*** that vaguely looks like a jordan 1 but isn’t…when there’s something that DOES look like a jordan 1 with pretty good quality to match…it’s just an uphill battle.

Let kids be kids

Only thing that’s lame is buying reps then tryna flex like you got bread and that they aren’t reps. That’s the only thing that should be getting called out.

But there’s nothing inherently wrong with buying reps

reddit.com/r/Grailed/comments/139e6f4/new_payments_update

Apparently Grailed just rolled out a new payment system which has significantly lowered the amount of sales for all sellers

Reps usually aren't good quality lol but I get your point. I just feel like kids shouldn't opt out for trend hopping. Start small and develop your fashion sense rather then just wearing what's popular or because your favorite rapper wore it. Idk that's corny to me but kids are gonna be kids