DougC
12-31-1969, 08:00 PM
Johnny Sunset aka Tom Sherman wrote:
>
> Shouldn't a rider get paid to wear advertising, not the other way
> around?
>
I read a book a couple years back where the author commented on the
matter of teenagers overpaying for shirts that had the clothing
company's logo writ large upon them.
He thought it looked funny, because when he was that age (back in the
1950's, in the US) kids wouldn't wear shirts with logos if they could
help it. Back then companies that would GIVE those shirts away for free
just for the advertising (nobody would pay for them, people though they
were garish). So only poor kids ended up wearing them, and no kid wanted
to look like he was poor.
~
>
> Shouldn't a rider get paid to wear advertising, not the other way
> around?
>
I read a book a couple years back where the author commented on the
matter of teenagers overpaying for shirts that had the clothing
company's logo writ large upon them.
He thought it looked funny, because when he was that age (back in the
1950's, in the US) kids wouldn't wear shirts with logos if they could
help it. Back then companies that would GIVE those shirts away for free
just for the advertising (nobody would pay for them, people though they
were garish). So only poor kids ended up wearing them, and no kid wanted
to look like he was poor.
~