I always thought this about cars. You should get a discount by letting them stick their name and symbols all over it for their free advertising.

the one that makes me irrationally angry is the used car dealership advertising. like the decals are annoying, but the license plate covers/border things that people don't take off.

like do you really want to be advertising chuck and donna's used car emporium every time you drive your car?

Not even if its cheaper or free, they should pay you. I used to work at a musical instruments store and got lots of free brand shirts, I still wore them inside out to hide the logos.

Isn't the idea that the brand advertises the wearer?

Only idiots wear shorts with logos on them.

Ahh… more downvotes. Thanks in advance.

all vehicles have big brand logos on front and back, and we all drive around like is normal

As someone who detests shirts with logos, and so buys ones without them, I'm okay with the current state of affairs. I don't want to feel like buying a normal shirt is a premium purchase

hey guys, thrift stores are a thing, and a great way to get quality clothing for cheap.

One small sense in which I’m proud of my younger self is that I had a similar insight to this around like 11, and pretty much decided then and there that I wasn’t going to pay to wear someone else’s logo (excepting bands & similar) and I would avoid wearing someone else’s logo if I wasn’t being paid to.

And I’ve pretty much stood by that. I’ve made some exceptions for smaller companies that I felt were doing something positive and worth promoting, or for open source things.

I think all of my shirts either have no logo, or have a logo for something i like and want to talk about (eg: a band, a local attraction).

I wouldn't want to advertise some soulless megacorp like adidas

Even better, clothes without branding are cheaper than those that are branded.

When I was a teenager, one year I got 3 nike shirts. Two were gifts, legitimate (as far as I could tell) nike ones with just the swoosh logo, one embossed with some plastic, the other printed I think. The other one was a cheap knockoff I bought at a farmer's market.

The embossed one started falling apart the quickest, right at the edge of the plastic crap where the stiffness wore the threads faster.

Then the other legit one started coming apart at the shoulders.

The fake one lasted like 5 years longer than either of the real nike ones.

So now the popularity of a brand makes me weary of it because they might be using their name to create an illusion of quality.

Similarly, if a celebrity endorses something, it's most likely because they are being paid a lot of money to do so, not because they care so much about how good it is that they want to spread the news.

Pretty sure none of the shirts I have with any official logo were actually paid for, they were all given to me for free in one way or another. I have paid for shirts with parody logos though!

I mean those types of shirts are cheap af compared to stuff you’d get at a nice men’s clothing store…

You can buy plain t shirts at Michaels and they are nice. I have a bunch lol. I never printed anything in them I just wear them

I buy my shirts by the pound from a wholesaler. A buck or two a pop. They adequately keep the sawdust out of my chest hair.

Ironic, Mr. Spiderman

As much as I agree with the sentiment, this would only really work if the brand doesn't specialise on branded clothing, but something that doesn't insist on advertising itself

Me over here turning my free tote bags inside out, to not make ad impressions, and people ask me why.

Actually, no, I disagree.

If anybody pays top dollar for branded material, congrats, you've proven to everyone how much of a gullible corporate shill you are. Wear that badge of shame proudly!

Lol this is a complete misunderstanding of how brands work.

People generally buy shirts with brands on it to say "look, I am an (insert brand here) type of person".

You're not advertising for the company. You're paying to advertise yourself as one of their customers. It functionally acts as advertising for the brand, sure, but not in the way an actual advertisement does.

This was the first invasion of privacy. Just like cellphones we willing chose it.

Same with clothes and grocery shopping bags.