Brand Name Clothing Disease.

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------->Dear Calgary Corner:

To the ladies, I hope you all got a chance to review my note on facebook "Beautiful Girls Travel In Groups" (its also on this blog, please scroll down to read), just some insight on how girls become friends in the city, pretty sure it runs the same way everywhere else.

The controversy on brand names. INSERT BRAND NAME HERE ON T-SHIRT, BAG, JEANS, JACKET, HAT.

Now I myself, am a victim of the buying for brand name crime. I like certain fashion lines, fits, styles. Sometimes (most times) If I feel its worth it, I will spend x amount of dollars on a leather jacket because of where it comes from, what brand it is and how it fits and looks. Mind you, most of my purchasing choices are based mostly on price, fit, style, look, then.. brand. I've out grown buying clothes that stamp the name of their brand all over their sh*t. There really isn't any personal style involved in buying these clothes. The argument? Some lines can be pretty brandy, some are based more on style and keep their name only on the tag, & some lines are jst f*cken idiotic. Now we all want to look good, classy, expensive. Money is status & power & runs our society. (Into hell hahaha) [ side note: I have GOT to stop swearing ] Anyhow, there still are a few of you stuck in the buying of brands crimes. How do you justify G-Star clothing for example? I will argue that yes, it's style is edgy, modern and some times are worth the purchase. (I myself have a few G-star things in my closet) But f*cken white T-Shirt that says "G-Star" on the front for f*cken $100+ dollars?

GIVE ME A BREAK.

G-Star isn't the only one... Now your going to ask me. "What about designer bags April? I know you've got a few". I've got a different opinion on monograms. Most designer bags focus on a monogram of their logo all over their bags, some styles don't even have any monograms printed on it (marc jacobs). Bags are a different story, especially designer ones. Louis Vuitton for example started out as a suitcase company, and is well known for its durability. Any bag thats x amount of stupid dollars has to be made with the best quality leathers, materials and machines. I swear by all my designer bags and most are purchased because of style and compatibility, rarely any are very brandy.

When I mean brandy, I'm talking mostly names. Jackets that have "DOLCE & GABANNA" written all over it, shirts that have "CHRISTIAN AUDIGIER" written all over it. Brands can be excused when subtle. Most stylish, classy lines are very subtle with their branding. Some clothes you can look and just know who designed it because of the way it looks. BUT there are just too many brands who make plain clothes and stamp "DOM REBEL" or "SMET" on the front with lame looking writing to make it expensive.

Wake up Calgary & get some style, sheesh. I'm one to talk though, I've got some brandy stuff. I guess thats just society though. Where does the line cross between being stylish and being brandy. Me? I love to cheap shop. If I can find something a jacket that fits me awesome and looks chillin' thats 30 bucks and find another one that LOOKS JUST LIKE IT at say... Urban thats 150. Hell, I'm gonna rock 30 bucks and say "yah, I got this from stitches". I got a car to pay off ya'll. I wanna say if I had the money to blow I wouldn't be such a saver shopper but thats not true, clothes come and go, especially with girls. Girls clean out their closets almost 5+ times a year, but new clothes and give away most. Plus they just cover your body. Remember adam & eve? They only had leaves! hahaha... Anyways, Calgary, what I'm really trying to say is, for all you who rock super brandy expensive clothes and think your above me in society, you just look like a carbon copy of the rest of the people who dress like you because they can afford it, and your style reads "straight up wasted my money on these clothes because I can't figure out my own personal style, thats right, my style is BALLLINNNNN" =)

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Beautiful Girls Travel In Groups.

First wrote this on Fbook. Decided to post it here since my good friend dat liked it enough to tell me to start up my rants and other sh*t on a blog. Haven't really been on here lots but re-updated my blog and will be posting as much as I can.

----------->Shout out to Dat!

Anyways, Beautiful Girls Travel In Groups.

Its funny how pretty girls gravitate towards other pretty girls and then become friends, a friendship based on looks, when underneath it all it's just a competition or a encouragement to be pretty or feel pretty because your surrounded by other beautiful girls.

Fake BS.

If you want to appreciate your friends' looks, that's awesome. Good on you for that.

All women are beautiful beings, it's more that possible a group of girlfriends might all be good looking who have been friends before they even cared about their looks.

BUT GIVE ME A BREAK.

It's like all the pretty girls in this city MUST be friends and then as soon as they realize its all fake and backstab each other, they just decide to find other pretty looking girlfriends.

Then the wars of groups begin. Girls stick to their group of beautiful friends and hate on every other group that comes together. It's like one huge f*cken contest of who can have the better looking group of girlfriends.

Eventually in these groups of fake friendships and jealousy and competition, girls backstab each other and then seek out a different group of beautiful girls.

A lot of the groups communicate simple "hello's" & "hey girl, you look beautiful" to each other every now and again at the bar or mall. This only happens though if they've collected enough girls in the group to be intimidating. The "better" the group, the more often girls can't be cocky towards you, so then send a fake greeting because they can't do anymore more than that. Or... the more social status a girl has gained, the more fake greetings she'll receive.

You know when I was younger and didn't do a lot to look very pretty or dress up or be very in style, girls used to look down on me and be rude to me and give me dirty looks. Then I decided to become more feminine, wear more make up, find more personal style, started meeting people through mutual interests, musics, socializing and then BAM all these girls who were such bitches to me are all of a sudden so nice to me?

It's a social lion pit!

Like hello? Do you not recognize me? I'm that girl you used to condescend...

Maybe I should dress like a bum all the time, so I don't have to deal with all your fake greetings.

Even working at bubbles, sometimes i'm too damn lazy to do the whole 9 beautiful yards, funny the reactions I get on those days, sometimes some of those girls act like they don't even know me and then that weekend at the bar when I'm all dolled up,

"April, Hi! Omg you look so good, who are you here with?" lol.... Uhh didn't I just see you at my work and you completely ignored me?

And on a rare occasion, you'll find girls who are just nice and friendly to everyone because they are chillin. Like me ;) hahaha

Seriously.. If i'm nice to you one day and see you another day, I could give a flying f*ck how you look, of course I'm still going to say hi.

Anyways, It's all such a joke.

And i'll admit, ive been there.

But one day I woke up realizing the reality of, "omg you look so good" is a.k.a "f*ck she looks better than me". And I've done that myself. Then we beat ourselves up because we can't stand the fact that were not the best looking or as good looking as our friends.

The only reason why we think this is because the only reason we became friends in the first place was because we were attracted to each other by looks.

Its the inevitable outcome, our friendships based merely on the attraction of each other, gravitating towards each-other because of our looks!

If your a real friend to your girlfriends, you should encourage your girlfriends to love who they are, and stop pointing out all the beautiful women you wish you all could look like.

I did a little experiment, whilst walking through the mall, or the bar, Instead of giving a girl that "stare" that cocky "i'm better than you stare" or that "who the fuck are you stare", I instead smiled, at every single one, and out of lets say 20 girls, I got 4 smiles back, 12 "who the fuck are you stares" and 4 "i'm better than you stares" back as well.

*sigh* So what should we do about this? Maybe we need to re-evaluate why we are friends with the girls we are friends with, if we truly care about them or if they truly care about us? We got to pick out our friends blindly, as if we had no idea how they looked.

And to the girls who have proven friendships based much more on just the attraction of each other's looks,

Thanks for keepin' it real. Sorry to all those I was ever fake to & to every girl who has been fake to me, know you deserve to have real friends despite your tendencies, I've been there and back and beauty is truly only skin deep. I hope we can all find deeper beauties in all our friends.

Thanks for reading my rant! Hope you learned something from it.