[GoNative]

i think you summed it up pretty well. Even my aversion to fashion and and being overly concerned with how you look is a fashion statement in it's own way. My wife and I would barely spend more than a couple of days worth of our wages each year on clothing and beauty products. It is kind of liberating actually to not concern yourself with fashion or looks, just to buy things for their funtionality rather than fashion statement. It releases you from the pressures of having to try and compete with others and be led by marketing to make you buy, buy, buy. Of course economies would fall if all people were like me!