Spend Save Mentality

I know I'm pretty cheap when it comes to clothes and maybe this doesn't really apply to me. I think that it is so ridiculous that people will spend five hundred bucks on (true religion) jeans and still look like they stepped out of American Eagle. If I was skinny enough and rich enough to wear that kind of stuff-- I would get basics on the cheap (i.e. 50 dollar jeans) and then try to spend money smart on mildly trendy pieces. Maybe its just me who feels this way, but expensive doesn't equal classy or chic.