Appearances

I want to know why a person seems to need the "it" fashions. Gucci glasses, Louie Vitane bags, three hunred dollar high heel shoes, why does the name brand be the standard of fashion? Why is the three inch label worth $500, when for the same amount I can get nearly an entire wardrobe off the discount rack at the back of the store. I think that way to many Americans are concerned with how things look from the outside, the appearances, that they cannot see the gross economic and social diaparities in our country. One pair of Gucci glasses can equal two weeks to a month's pay for the working poor. If we spent more time trying to help each other rather than play a game of one upsmanship, may be we wouldn't be in such a mess.