PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE????

Clothing, yes.

You know those shirts people get that are half shirts or pretend double shirts or you know? A nice stripe of a pattern starts right in front and for some, perhaps 'convenient' reason they suddenly end at the side seam? You look in the mirror and might think, "WOW this is a cool shirt." Then everyone sees your back side. Is that a plain blue sweater I see there? OH WAIT, no...they turn around and its got shit patternin' out all over. WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH THAT?

Firstly, the public 'future' is lazy and ignorant. Obviously we can tell when your shirt collar is sewn onto your sweater. Is it too difficult now to put on two shirts? We only have the energy to pull one thing over our heads in the morning these days? Or, do you really think I cannot tell the difference? Perhaps this form of laziness in appearance widely accepted among our citizens these days. By the Ugg count on any given day, regardless of season, I might be able to support a yes.
And the designer, oh my goodness. Only enough energy to sew the stripe on the front side. It's all that matters, the front, right? There seems to have been, sprouting in the mid 1960s, a sudden trend in disregard for quality and thoroughness in products. What really gets MY goat is that garments are the vessel we use to show our faces to the world. I would not hire you in a pretend shirt. I also wouldn't take you seriously.

Secondly, this entire concept in itself offends and opposes my views of styling completely. If you are what you wear, where might this take us? Several roads. If we are impersonating who we want to be when we wake in the morning, or the part of our own selves that we want to shine, I'm sure that nobody wants to come off as fake. If you wear a pretend shirt you are only implying your own shallowness, ignorance, and your inability to properly adjust to change (and as labeled before, laziness.) You can't fully commit to doing something out of the ordinary, you are used to putting on one shirt and two just won't fly. You think that what anyone else sees besides what you see in the mirror in the morning is irrelevant. You fail to see your own flaws. You have false self confidence. And you have no appreciation for the authentic nor the original. This can be tied to an adolescent moratorium; a child believes that if he goes to hot topic and buys a pair of widelegged chain-covered pants, that he will indeed become "goth." To an adult, we can see through his role playing, but to a peer it might be less obvious. The cd is better than the record. The movie was better than the book. All of these thoughts are very misguided in my opinion, and I suppose the adolescent moratorium experience and outcome may have a lot to be responsible for among adults...and the lack there of.
Down further roads, we all know that spending more money on your appearance doesn't make your personbality any better. But we can use the idea of quality in the "you are what you wear" idea. Do you want to be a walking billboard for a half-assed job? For a lack of appreciation?
We do not. And obviously here, I'm not considering post modernist takes on the subject so never mind satirical interpretations of reality.
If I wear a stripe, I am that stripe. If I wear a pattern, I am the pattern. Humans are 3d. We can't all be walking around with 2-dimensional ideas of an aesthetic, we aren't on the computer popping up windows of argyle patterns and closing them at will. If we want to be this color, picture, or pattern, we have to consider every side of the cube. Designer, wearer, or buyer, no matter.
Being something is about more than the idea you are trying to flash us, more than a picture hanging on a string around our necks of who we want to be when we grow up. Being something is letting it seep out of your every pore, creating your own unique scent that floats around you and waves around you fingers at every conversational gesture.

If you want to be something, all you ave to do is act like you already are and it will follow with time. Remember that when you show your face to the world.