When You are Covered in Labels and Logos
Lesson 21 from: How to Dress Better and Improve Your LifeJennifer Baumgartner
When You are Covered in Labels and Logos
Lesson 21 from: How to Dress Better and Improve Your LifeJennifer Baumgartner
Lessons
Class Introduction - Psychology of Dress Principles and Parameters
10:51 2History of Psychology and Fashion
23:31 3Psychology of Dress Principles
16:50 4Psychology Questionnaire of Dress Behaviors
43:52 5Wardrobe Analysis: The Process
07:58 6Wardrobe Analysis: Examination
08:47 7Wardrobe Analysis: Formulation
08:10 8Wardrobe Analysis: Change
21:15Wardrobe Analysis: Exploration
10:31 10Wardrobe Analysis: Future
08:10 11Wardrobe Analysis: Case Study
12:49 12Audience Case Study
03:28 13Dr. B's 9 Dress Difficulties
02:04 14When You Buy More Than You Need
19:50 15When Your Closet is Overflowing
14:41 16When You are Bored with Your Look
14:31 17When You Avoid Mirrors
08:54 18When You Bare Too Much
04:45 19When You Are Not Dressing Your Age
04:18 20When You Find Yourself Forever in Work Clothes
03:21 21When You are Covered in Labels and Logos
04:17 22When you Live in Mom Jeans
09:00 23Color Psychology
21:43 24Wardrobe Psychology
23:25 25Simple Fashion
10:34Lesson Info
When You are Covered in Labels and Logos
The next one is the work, I'm sorry the logo mania when your covered in labels. And a lot of people do this, reasons, because we talk about the association. It is set up that brands that we like have kind of a story with them. We're emotionally connected to the story they present. And we buy these clothes not cuz of logos, the logos have mean-, no meaning, but because we believe that we become part of this brand. It's a link, so a lot of times the association. The association helps us cover what we may not feel that we have, that we don't have, that we might want, or that we have, and we want to enhance. It's also a way to establish rank. So we really don't have a hierarchy in this country that's spoken, there is no, um monarchy of royalty, there's no caste system that we can really define, that we're stuck in. We're often relatively mobile, so our logos, our brands, our objects help us define a ranking system without having one that's imposed on us. So a lot of people use that in that...
way. Um, its also a feeling of belonging to people that we feel are like us and then removing those that are not. Um, and as we have more exposure to brands that we may have not normally seen or been able to afford, we habituate to the effects. A thousand dollar jean sounds completely insane. A thousand dollar shoes sounded crazy maybe five years ago. But now that we've seen people wearing a thousand dollar shoes, we hear about it, it's "normal," that we all of a sudden think that "well it doesn't sound so crazy if you got a thousand dollar shoe". So we start to habituate to the effects, um, of that. So that's many of the reasons why we buy these logos. So some of the questions I ask people are "Are you only buying designer?" "Do most of your clothes have logos?" "Do you feel uncomfortable wearing anything but logos?" "Do you spend more than you should on logos?" Ah, "If you tried not to wear logos, do you feel naked?" So those are just some of the questions I ask people, and if you feel that this is you, you may have an issue, really not with logos, but what is your own brand? What are you, without the logos? So here's some of the treatments that I use. Number one I'm looking at, any overuse of anything, looses its meaning. So if your wearing a logo and your wearing it all the time, and everybody else wears it, and your wearing it to kinda make a statement. It's loosing its meaning as its used all the time. Um, also reanni- reassessing, so trying to go out with somebody that you kinda want to asses you in a specific way, without any logos, without anything that has a brand attached to it. And do you feel uncomfortable? And if you do then maybe there might be an issue there. If you don't and you just like brands because you like brands that's different. Um, remove what you don't like, even though there's a logo on it. So I hear a lot of people say, "Well it's designer, I can't give this away, but I wanna keep it because its designer!" (laughs) So, I say "Well do you really like it?" "No I don't" well then remove it if you don't like it. I also have picture it, take a picture of your outfits, you mentioned this before Lisa, You know making sure you take a picture of how you feel to make yourself feel better, but you can also taka a picture to say "Am I doing this, does this look absurd?". Uh, I say stretch, go without the logo somewhere and see what it feels like. The sticker shock extinction, so when we see something that's overpriced, the shock of the price becomes extinct as we see it all the time, similar to habituation. Uh, look and find the look that you like for less and see if you can recruit it, and then really know who you are. You shouldn't wear anybody else's brand on you except your own, right? And you can really define your brand and what it is and make that tangible. Who are you without your stuff? Not just your clothing and if you can answer that question go ahead and wear the logos. But if your struggling then you might want to kind of internally develop who you are. And rather than looking for a brand story, create your own story, kind of cease and desist, put yourself on a logo diet, try to, to develop who you are and then move from there. If you still want to wear the logos, put them right back in your life.
Ratings and Reviews
Yolanda Azpiazu
Loved it! Incredible class, so interesting and filled with new concepts, I am a big fan of the author and I admire her for the way she suggests us to analyse things with curiosity and looking "bellow the water", rather than judgement. Thank you so much for this wonderful class Dr. Baumgartner.
a Creativelive Student
It's about how you dress, but really, it's about how to use the way you dress as a lens to better understand yourself. Packed with useful information and tips, highly recommend! Thanks Jenny!