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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Janie and Jack is very bourgeois - as is spending a fortune (even when it's on "sale") on kids clothes and then talking about it and how much it costs.

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[b]I don't think paying $10 for an outfit is a fortune. [/b]And thinking you'll get money back when you sell it makes me wonder how much each of you spend on your kids' clothes.

Every time I go to the store to consign their stuff I come back with $80-100 that I spend on their clothes for the next season and we're good to go. I think I spent $100 when they were born and I keep getting it back with selling it and spending more or less the same $100 for the next season.

The only thing I really spend money on are shoes. Even those I try to get on sale but still it will be around $25 per pair. I can definitely sell it because some people don't mind buying used shoes.[/quote]

This is what baffles me. Many people here have HHI over 200k; almost everyone is ready to pay $10 for two pounds of organic apples. But when it comes to children's clothing, $20 is all of a sudden a fortune?? I have HHI of about 200k and I can definitively afford an occasional, say, Burberry, for my child. I just don't get it. Janie and Jack is a mid-range clothing - there is definitively clothing out there that is several times more expensive. If I really liked something at J&J I wouldn't think twice about buying it. It's just that I don't like it that much; it's overdone, too much matchy-matchy.[/quote]

It's the matchy-matchy thing.  It's no different from the kids who had to wear an Izod shirt every day back in the 70's.  Nobody should be a slave to a brand, whether it is an expensive brand or not.  [/quote]

I understand with that and I agree with the attitude. DD wears everything from Carter's to Gucci's. There are nice things at all price points and it's fun to combine them into outfits.

But there were many comments where people (who, in many case, make a lot of money) are outraged at the sheer expense of the J&J. That part I just don't get. How many times am I going to have a little girl? Why not spend some money on the clothing.[/quote]

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