Anyone who grew up in low and even mid-income areas that attended public schools understand. In high school, you are a teenager, your young and really don't have much to spend your checks on if you working so fashion was where a lot of your money went. In high school, don't get caught with any dead shoes or non-name brand shyt or you would get clowned. That all gets a PASS.
Now we are dealing with different era's. In prior era's men ruled trends, music and had greater influence on what was considered "hot". Now a days, broken home systems have men becoming far more feminized to a point where heterosexual men are commenting on other heterosexual's men's clothing, style of dress. Now if a girl likes a rapper, men follow. If a girl likes Gucci belts, men follow. Where before, it was completely the other way around. Now sisters, hopefully this is not coming off as a battle of the sexes or chauvinistic.
This thread was for men who are still today conforming to thinking that they have to buy
$800 prada dress shoes or spend $1200-$1500 on a table in a party or buy belts that cost $400 all to impress or to have the impression that they are "balling"
when too often that is just not the reality.
Now a days due to broken home systems, you have women raising little boys who think buying their four/five year old $200 pair of shoes with $100 shirt and $200 belt buckle is the thing to do so she can get instagram "likes". Not realizing, she's not allowing this young child to be a child and forcing him to grow up a lot sooner than when he should be. Not realizing that style can open the panda's box into different environments where "fast money is seen as cool" to a child with a undeveloped mental.
Deny this all you want, many know that this is true and absolutely not far off.