FUCK THIS NOISE

I would like to make this very clear to anyone sitting in the back row.  FUCK THIS ASSHOLE.

None of these numbers apply to a “limited” budget.

Not one single person I know now, or in the past “think’s nothing” of spending $3,000, or $60,000.

That is the talk of someone who is rich and has no idea what the rest of the world lives like.  $2,000 is over 6 months rent for me.  It is probably more than my food budget for a year.  It is not something that I could (or again, anybody I know could) ever afford for clothes even really nice ones.

And I don’t spend my (limited budget) money on things I don’t care about.  I buy mostly food, booze and clothes.  Occasionally gas when I have somewhere to go, and rent and bills.  That’s it.  The “lot’s of people” throwing around thousands of dollars on frivolities that Mr. Talese is talking about are, and again let me be very clear, FUCKING RICH ASSHOLES WHO HAVE A WILDLY SKEWED RELATIONSHIP WITH MONEY.

I’ve been concerned that PTO has been falling into the pit of “rich-guy-itis” since Die Workwear started blogging there.  This is a perfect representation of that.  $5000 is probably what I’ve spent on clothes in my life.  Not on a suit.  I realize that there are people with more money than me.  But if you can spend $5,000 on a suit, $2,000 on shoes, $3,000 on golf clubs, or $60,000 on a pool you’ll never use you do not have a limited budget. 

What’s more, by saying that a “limited” budget includes $5000 suits, implies that you can’t dress well for less than that.  That a $5,000 suit is the baseline for “a limited budget.”  That if you “appropriated your money” better you could dress well, but since you’re not you must not be doing that.

Tell me you can dress well on a limited budget and that you spend $1,200 on a suit, $300 on shoes.  Then I know you’re thinking “save for a couple months, then buy something nice.”

Telling me to buy 6 months of rent worth of shoes and you’ve moved to saying that only high incomes can dress well.  And that makes you a fucking asshole.

This might be the bump that makes me stop following PTO.  

putthison:

“You can dress well on a limited budget. It is a matter of how you appropriate your money. I don’t spend much on anything that doesn’t matter to me. Lots of people will think nothing of spending $3,000 for a new set of golf clubs, or $10,000 for a sloop, or $60,000 for a swimming pool that they’ll use four times a summer. I think nothing of spending $5,000 for a suit, or $2,000 for a pair of hand-made shoes.”

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- Gay Talese

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