Sorry, I just look at it from a viewpoint of efficiency.
And, even when dressing with style, you are just burning money.
And, even when dressing with style, you are just burning money.
Where do you live? There's no way you live in the modern world if you think $10/sweater is a regular price for something because that's absolutely insane. Do you only wear 90's crewnecks? I can see those being $10 at the local goodwill. If you do then why are you trying so extremely hard to find the lowest prices possible? Are you living in poverty?
Buy during sale at H&M, C&A, Vero Moda, etc. Normal clothes.
Normal people don’t have money to buy bags for $2k. Normal people are struggling to pay their bills while being a single mom with kids. Normal people can be lucky if they can afford clothes from ALDI, and don’t have to go to the Red Cross. That’s the reality for most of the former middle class.
My family luckily doesn’t have to live like that, but you are seriously not "normal person". You’re rich. Your friends are rich.
When your friends buy bags that are over twice the monthly salary of some people, bags that cost more than a vacation for 4 people in another country, then you are rich.
Some people, living on uncommonly-high tech salaries in the bay area and similar locations, might indeed spend $1K on a change of clothes. I imagine some other highly-educated professionals in expensive cities might do as well. There is nothing wrong or unreasonable with that, per se. But "$1000 outfit is standard" is a statement that applies to very few people, and implying that it should be the norm is absurd under present world economics.
For the record, in my experience, most people I meet in tech and in the bay area, still won't often get close to wearing $1k. Those who do is often only when you include things like prescription glasses, leather jackets and wearable gadgets ;)