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They're a distraction. My nephew is in high school, and he refurbishes $800-$1000 dollar shoes, for a price, or buys them for cheap and resells them at the almost new price. He's the new version of an old-fashioned cobbler, and he's really good at it.
For God's sake. What is WRONG with parents, that they will buy a $1000 pair of shoes for their kid?
Seeking to remove every possibility for causes of insecurity in our young is going about maturing them and equipping them for future disappointment backasswards.
We're not doing them any favours by raising the perceived cachet of a stupid jacket by banning the things. Nor are we teaching them anything by visibly signalling and legitimizing their right to feel "inferior" due to another's choice of expensive clothing. Now you've given the typical "spoiled little bugger" another stick to beat his "lesser's" with, to wit: "I can't wear my warm coat and have to wear a cheap one because that's all you can afford."
The nasty ones will always find a way to heap scorn on their perceived lower status peers.
This nonsense of 'banning' is going about it the wrong way around. We are indeed raising future "snowflakes" by very obviously insulating them from any and all forms of possible embarrassment. They need to learn as early as possible the future will hold all sorts of challenges to their egos and self-confidence. Putting those into some form of rational perspective is to their benefit, rather than the alternative of hiding our young from them.
The story is from a northern England backwater. It's not even the new world. They do lots of stranger things over there. It's still a class system fight, and you're not in London.
Well I had a Canada Goose coat given to me at Christmas one year, and I took it back.
I refuse to wear something where animals have suffered and died to keep me warm or to adorn a hood with fur trim.
There are so many warm and stylish, man-made alternatives.
At eider-down "farms" in Norway, where a lot of the stuffing for down vests and coats is produced, the eiders are not only unharmed, but they and their nests are guarded by the landowners. The nesting areas are fenced and small wooden nest shelters are placed at intervals. The female eiders know they will be fairly safe there and return every year. Only after the young are hatched and leave for the sea, is the down collected and separated from the grass and eggshells.
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