Male clothing designers get their names on the stuff, but mostly women are behind "high fashion" and give it value far beyond reality. Woman's handbags, for instance, they routinely cost $1600. Really?
So, I start looking on them for built in video systems, cellphone and portable fridge circuits to justify the cost, but ziltch. Just before Christmas, an old girlfriend sent me a link to this:
http://www.marcjacobs.com/marc-jacobs/womens/bags-and-accessories/c3112133/spotty-beaver#?p=1&s=12
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$4,695.00
Seriously.
Men do not understand this at all. Men do not recognize or appreciate that any of you women owning bags like this have spent that money on it or anything about it other than the ugly print or perhaps an unusual color. We do not know or care about the fashion designers who made the bag. That means the only place where having such a bag will have status is amongst other women, who hate to be upstaged and then go out and spend MORE than that on a handbag. It extends into dresses, shoes, belts and all manner of women's accessories. Women's clothes costs several times that than for men's clothes.
Men will not spend that kind of money on a briefcase or satchel. Men will not spend more than about $600.00 for a very high end shoe, and not much more than say...$900 on their "best suit" selections. A tux or specialized article might cost more, but still we are talking FAR less money for men's garments which are typically stronger, larger, and take more material. Men, even metro men, will not "accessorize" or spend money on products beyond shaving cream, deodorant, moisturizer, shampoo, conditioner, an exfoliant, perhaps a pumice/brush/loofah and a shaving kit (with interchangeable attachments for trimming beards, mustaches and sideburns as well as body hair). Women can sting a man's wallet with $10,000 in purchases for just one day of shopping on Rodeo Drive. Its obscene.
On top of it all, no woman is going to want to date any man who dresses in the ridiculous outfits they wear on runways in fashion shows.