Reply to Would you let your public school kid wear a very expensive item of clothing to school?

Forum Index » Tweens and Teens

Reply to "Would you let your public school kid wear a very expensive item of clothing to school? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ds is spending the weekend with grandparents who apparently bought him an expensive piece of clothing he’s been covering. He sent me a pic of him wearing the item last night and said he can’t wait to wear it Tuesday. I told him it looked nice on him but we’d have to discuss wearing it Tuesday when he got home.

Ds is a sneaker head, as are most of his friends, but this item is more expensive than some $300 shoes. Dh (whose parents bought it and who grew up rich) doesn’t see the problem. We live in Loudoun Co and 80% of the student cars at his school are brand new or BMWs and Mercedes is basically Dh’s argument. [b]Besides, he says most kids won’t even know the item Ds is wearing is $$$ unless Ds tells them. [/b]

I feel like ds could get away with wearing it at a private school easier than public. I sent the pic to my friend whose boys go to a private and she said several boys there have this item that they wear with their uniforms. I guess I basically don’t want him to go to school looking like a rich douche is what it boils down to.

Ugh. I like it when the kids spend time with my poor (compared to Dh’s parents) better. They never come home with outrageous gifts like this. [/quote]

Warning: Sorry, but your DH might be the douche example that your DS is following. Of course they won't know it's expensive unless he tells them (or unless they are rich and shallow enough to admire him for his ability to afford such a sweater) b/c it literally looks like a ridiculous adult-equivalent of a character sweater from Gymboree! But the whole point of a sweater like that is to draw attention...first for the sheer stupidity of it and next for the eye-popping explanation that it's GUCCI and REALLY EXPENSIVE (and it's this piece that makes your DS giddy with the idea of being able to flip the switch of being mocked to feeling superior)

I guarantee you that if he saw that EXACT SAME sweater at Target for $18 there is NO WAY he would wear it! No way.

And that's kind of the douchey point, isn't it?
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics