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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lemmings.  Cool kids don’t follow that stupid trend.[/quote]

Of course they do. The pricey shit is the barrier to entry to the popular crowd, silly. [/quote]

It's really not.  My brother was legendary in MS and HS.  Senior girls used to give me a ride to school in HS because they wanted to date my Sophomore brother.  He was good-looking and a super athlete. He also did not follow stupid trends or ask my parents for expensive items to fit in.  My dad was VERY BIG on, be a leader not a follower.  We all picked up on that quickly and to this day I will not wear things once they become overly popular.  If every bus stop mom is strutting around in a Canadian Goose (formerly North Face) it's the last thing I want to be seen in.

I realized my kids turned out the same way and they are very popular. In fact, they often set the trends.  My 8th grader saw some independent store with a cool logo on vacation and wanted to buy it because everyone else wore Vineyard Vines----guess what?  Everyone wanted to know where he got it.

My kids know I will never spend $300 on sneakers or $400 or even $150 on a backpack even though we are very well-off.  We do teach value of things.

Kids that need a ton of exterior stuff and need to follow what everyone else is doing often are surprised the way things turn out.  It's exhausting being a striver.[/quote]

And yet you seem exquisitely sensive to and aware of who and what Re “in” and “out.”[/quote]

Not to mention “striving” pretty darn hard to stay ahead of the crowd. Must be exhausting. [/quote]

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