BBC - h2g2 - Clothes

All over the world, chains of clothing retial stores are popping up, splattering the surrounding buildings with grass and dirt; the other buildings wish they would quit sprining up like that, but they do anyway. Allk of these stores sell exactly the same clothes for exactly the same prices, but for soem reason each chain claims it is different! It is the BEST! They talk about the loyal customers, the fascinating clothes, the seasonal colors, not realising that the loyal customers also shop every other clothing retial store in town, the fascinating clothes are exactly what every other store carries, and the seasonal colors are exactly the same from year to year. They can however, predict the latest fashion; if it's expensive, it's oging ot be fashionable. No matter if you have a shirt just like it in your closet; if you didn't pay this much for it, it's not in fashion1 this compels many people to right home and throw away every peice of clothing they own and go buy an entire new wardrobe, knowing subconciosly that the fashion will change again in approximately 2 minutes. Many retail stores make their money by selling "name-brand clothing", meaning that they persuade innocent teenagers tobuy shirts that have the name of the company or designer emblazoned across teh front; in essence, the teens are paying $40 to advertise for the company. But this doesn't matter, it is *fashion*! Many retail stores pride themselves on their wonderful sales, never realizing that the customers absolutely *hate* the sales because anything they might concieveably want is either sold out or reduced form $60 to $59.99. But at least the employees are cheerful, providing the coffeepot and Coke machine are still in working condition.