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I had some fun for maybe the first time ever doing some clothes shopping for Christmas. The main reason was my daughter was along with me and enjoying herself.
We were picking out clothes for her and her younger sister at Walmart. I was partly amazed at just how low in price some items could get. $3 t-shirts seems a little crazy to me. The most expensive item was a $12 sweater made of a fluffy white material.
It was also nice not having to try anything on. At their age you just buy on the slightly larger size and they'll grow into it within a year.
The crowds were also not as bad as I feared, or at least Walmart had it down to a science getting them all through the few dozen self checkout points.
I'm an unabashed capitalist, but even I sometimes forget the modern marvels right in front of my eyes.
One of Gwern's ordinary life improvements since the 90s was that clothing is now 'too cheap to meter'.
My wife and I both like clothes, our minds were blown when we saw that people in the 1950s on average spent 10% of their income on clothing. Which would just be a mind-boggling amount for us to budget on clothes, how on earth would we spend $30,000 a year on clothing?
I imagine you could throw it away pretty fast on boutique bullshit. $900 Gucci polos, etc.
Leaving aside absurd Veblen goods, I could buy the highest quality stuff at full price. But I'd very quickly accumulate too much of it, because top quality stuff doesn't wear out in a year. I can only own so many suits and leather jackets!
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