Today in our world, many people love expensive materialistic products. These days, if the product is expensive, it is a lot better than the same product that may have been $50 dollars cheaper. We are easily convinced that this product is better for us and that we have to have it.
When a woman holds a Louis Vuitton or Chanel bag many Americans connect that with wealth and having good taste. But is it good taste because it is expensive? A lot of women have these very expensive bags and a lot of them buy imitations that are cheaper, just to hold that style. But, why is caring a thousand dollar bag considered stylish and having good taste. Are these bags really worth all of those credit card debts?


In seems that society loves these products because of the trickledown theory. People who are rich hold these bags and it just seems so luxurious and extravagant because it is expensive and they are carrying it. There are a lot of products that are expensive but you don’t see people jumping out into the streets to buy those products. They are not interested because the rich do not consume these products and therefore it is not as valuable. Our taste is defined with what most of the public perceives as glamorous and stylish. Fashion is shaped for us to feel that certain clothing is okay and certain clothing is not. Magazines companies and designers tell us how to dress and define our taste for us with marketing strategies and advertisements. We are the consumers that are brain washed into receiving these images and making it into our style. American’s don’t know what they truly like anymore. Taste and quality is now in the hold of the public; if majority of the people and those who critic fashion say it’s good it’s good; and that is what it is.