Some family friends recently visited China and upon their return brought some gifts to show their appreciation of all the partying I did at their house while they were away for the 2 weeks. One such gift was a blue polo shirt. 'Wicked' I thought. 'It looks quite nice, impress the ladies. Off to uni I go wearing blue polo shirt, taking no notice of the Ralph Lauren tag I cut off in the morning. Afterall, who is Ralph Lauren and what does it matter, the shirt is from China so probably a fake. But then someone notices the little black logo of a man on a horse (of which I couldnt work out what the logo was supposed to be) and is impressed by the calibre of clothing i am wearing. "Its a fake" I reply to their comments of appraisal "from China". But then closer inspection reveals that the shirt has all the makings of a real one, fakes apparently have many things different to the real thing. "No its a fake" I assure them. Only to find out later that day it is infact a real Ralph Lauren shirt. 'No biggy' I ponder 'real or fake it doesn't bother me. Who is this Ralph guy anyway?'
Just a famous fashion designer who sells shirts with tiny logos for ridiculusly high prices thats who! Probably the most expensive peice of clothing I have ever worn. I don't think I will be wearing it all that often now- wouldn't want soemthing to happen to it.
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Since most of the factories that make that stuff are over in the eastern countries, the workers who get paid very little smuggle as much as they can when they leave and sell it in the markets. also, the tiniest faults in the clothes mean they get thrown out, some lucky worker then 'empties' the bin, and reap the rewards.. Thats economy for ya.
Anymore kanoodling lately, sam?
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