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Everyone can have beautiful clothes....you don't have to be rich. You just have to have a sewing machine and a few skills. They used to teach sewing in middle school, along with woodshop, electric shop, cooking, and driver's ed. But now they've done away with all that, and most people simply don't have those skills.

And to anticipate some arguments, no, you don't have to be rich to own a sewing machine. My grandmother was fresh off-the-farm, illiterate, urban ghetto dweller, and she had a sewing machine.

Joanna

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wojtek S" <wsoko52 at gmail.com>

Doug: "What's wrong with wearing beautiful clothes?"

[WS:] Nothing.  In fact they should be available to everyone, not just
rich snobs and wannabies who can afford them.  It does not take much
more resources to produce beautiful stuff than it takes to produce
crap.  The main reason why beautiful things are scarce and crap is
plentiful is the appeal to snobbery of the former - it is the scarce
and expensive that makes them appealing to upper classes (or
wannabies.)