I don’t waste the time to remove logos, but if the logo is more than a square inch or so, I just don’t buy it. I certainly don’t equate Izod with quality!
I try not to buy things that have logos. Never liked them. That being said, it’s not worth my time to try to remove the few that I have.
Same here. In the nineties there was no place that didn’t have a brand or some sort of picture in the front of shirts.
Found some in the boys department of Wal-Mart. Used them with all the kids along with their overalls.
When a car dealer puts their signage on the rear of my new car I ask them how much per month they’re going to pay me.
Fashion moves in trends, countered by a few obstacles that resist or reject the conformity. Think about how popular wearing overly bright gym shoes has become. Very popular.
Yet there are still many who wouldn’t be caught dead in fluorescent yellow, pink and green sneakers. This group keeps on buying the black, white or solid hues of tone. They go against the flow.
There was a time when a certain, discreet logo meant a quality garment. Now, it’s morphed into an excuse to charge a higher price for the very same inferior Chinese garment that’s sold without a logo. I’m not paying for a logo. I’m paying for a better shirt. If the shirt’s not better, then I’m not buying it just because it has a pretty embroidered thingie or even worse a gigantic silkscreened blob on it.
“Why would I do someone else’s advertising for free?”
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I have always thought this way. I do not buy items that have prominent advertising on them, no Nike slashes, no alligators.
Most of the time the no name products are as good or better and all you are paying for is the privilege of advertising for them.
I always called them Aligator shirts.
I was brought up that one never wore a garment that displayed a logo... my father even persuaded Rene Lacoste to send him some of his tennis shirts without the logo every few years.
We have also done this for years. If I can’t remove it or hide it we don’t buy it.
Seems like a lot of work to accomplish nothing.
Try getting a ball cap without a logo.
I go to a store that sells only caps and have them special order me caps with no logos - usually buy 4 which last me a while. Does not cost any more (or less) just takes a little effort.
If a person has to use a label to impress because the workmanship isn't that good, does it really show something is 'superior' or just that it costs more?
OR worse - a person using a label as a way 'to 'lord it over others' at Christmas time? The epitome of 'tacky'.... I mean, Christmas? Come on...show some class.
And 25 years ago, the fashionable thing was to brazenly display the logo. Every pair of blue jeans had the “designer’s” name prominently stitched across the backside.
Exactly my thoughts on this. I've been logo averse for decades, for that very reason.
Removing all the swooshtikas from a Nike product would take months...
Wow. Didn’t realize so many of us share this view. Great minds often DO think alike.