My current question is just why they obses over shirts and jackets but no one cares about pants. Such a odd and fascinating culture.

Ask Disney, Maybe they can answer that :P

I would be pretty sure that pants just don't exist in their world.. but then there's that line/joke in the previous issue where they use the expression 'the pants in this relationship', so.. I don't know! O:

From Rick's FAQ

Q: Why do none of the characters wear pants?

A: Because it’s my story and I need to make it fun for me.

I enjoy the shameless nature of that answer

I knew that. :} Perhaps you should have replied to Faros.

I'm just not sure if pants even exist in this world. All signs point to no, save for that one joke featuring that expression.

"bottomless culture" is a common theme in the fandom. Nothing wrong with it.

There are no Levis stores in this world.

There probably is, but they only sell denim jackets

That's right, spend it all on superficial things that will be of no use to you in the long run.

she needs to replace her shirt, so why not

Nothing wrong with that in of itself, but blowing all the money on just clothing for herself?

Pretty shirts aren't useful? When did that happen?

When bills are piling up, your car isn't fully paid and you're with a child?

Newsflash: They are not. Unless you think draining your resources is useful.

Buying something nice when life's not going so great can be a huge boost.

-Signed, someone no longer in poverty who also has depression.

No one ever said Hilde was right about all this.

Still, I think it'll be good for Adrian's mood to buy one fancy item and then save the rest of the money for practical matters.

I'm somewhat in the middle here. Maybe not buying the most expensive clothing, sure. But at the same time, spending some money on quality clothing can save expenses in the long run, compared to buying cheap stuff at a thrift store.

I am somewhat curious about the no pants style used here...is there a meaning to it?

From Rick's FAQ

Q: Why do none of the characters wear pants?

A: Because it’s my story and I need to make it fun for me.

XD fair enough...

If that store is run by anything but gay hunting dogs I'm going to be disappointed.

There's this whole section of the store that's just empty shelves with blank signs. Nobody knows what's supposed to go there or why it's empty. "Well, now that you've got some nice tops, maybe you should also check out the...uhh...something or other. The gloves, I guess. I was going to suggest something, but it slipped my mind..."

Why isn't there a mechanism to like replies

XD

Peer pressure and I have a feeling going down this rabbit hole will lead to problems

Thanks for the link, I looked through the rest of this chapter and wow that's some really good relationship and character history exposition. You do a great job of showing how a relationship turned toxic, related to character traits/development, and interacted with social norms.

Dont do it!

Bills before thrills!!

Age before beauty?

Aww, I wanted to see mare butt.

I'm going to pop some tags, only got $400 in my pocket. Looking for cover. This is freaking awesome.
Even if you've got $400. Why would you waste your time going to a place like that? You get way better stuff at the thrift shop. And if you go to a thrift shop like value Village $400 won't get you very for don't know if you're familiar with value Village, but in the last two years. Their prices have gotten insane. I can literally buy brand-new close at Walmart for less than the used items in general at value Village pants that used to be $.50 a pair are 10 and $20 a pair. Shirts start out at $10 jackets will run you 25 and up. About the only cheap thing you can get there now is sneakers and shoes, if one of the clerks happens to screw up on the pricing I've literally seen shoes that were 30 and $40. Remember, I'm talking thrift store and to add insult to injury several Salvation Army thrift stores are price matching with value Village. You can literally go into a Salvation Army and listen to the customers vehemently complaining that it's just as expensive as value Village and what the hell's going on. Everything is donated why is it so expensive. Literally haven't bought anything new for clothing in over 20 years. We live in a wasteful society.see i quite frequently pick up massive amounts of clothing and take them to a group that sends clothing to Africa. It just blows my mind when I'm out picking up scrap metal and I start finding boxes of close out for trash or see-through bags of clothing you start going through the stuff and finding items with the tags still on them from the stores. Generally anything that's my size. I set aside and take home the way I ruined clothes due to the work I do. I'm not too particular as long as it fits not uncommon for me to ruin sometimes five or six T-shirts in a month and don't get me started. How many pairs of pants I go through and I take a size 44, which is getting harder to find. This girl someone after my own heart got a lover girl that knows to shop that a thrift store.

so what your saying is that that entire thing you just said could be said like this dont waste your money OLD RICK RUINING EVERYTHING

I've just never understood the markup for new clothing. I used to know people that work that places like Footlocker they get a pair of Nike shoes between 10 and $30 and sell them to the public hundred and 50 and up some shoes. They were getting as cheaply as five dollars a pair. Depending on the brand.

well i get nike shocks and mj's

mj?

you know MJ Michael Jordan

quite a few times I find Nike shoes at places like value Village trick is to find them where the clerks mis-labeled the shoes. Otherwise, they're very expensive. I literally gave one of my neighbors a pair of Air Jordan's the other day. They didn't look like they'd ever been worn and were in one of the bags of clothing somebody threw out that I was going through where I take clothing. Like I said, to an outfit that sends close to Africa. I'd set them aside to see if they fit my father and they didn't fit him neighbor had been over at the local secondhand store looking for pair of shoes. And when I found out I gave them to him. I pretty much live off of what other people don't want more literally than you might think all three vehicles that I own would probably surprise people and each one of them was going to the crusher. Two of them. I've bought from a used car dealer where he gets vehicles from seizure auctions and donate should auctions. The vehicles he gets are the ones that nobody bid on he get some for like 100 and 200 each puts them up for sale and if nobody buys them. After about three weeks or so. He crushes them for scrap metal. He literally got into selling vehicles where I got into this big argument with did he not grasp what some of these vehicles were worth that he was taking in for scrap the guy is a little bit of a shortsighted idiot. He gets into much of a rush about making money. He recently crushed a car worth about five grand in the kind of condition that would knock you down and literally didn't care about selling the car. He was too ticked off and wanted to see It crushed. Literally had 800 and was going to buy the car because of the condition it was in. Was a really nice single owner for grand Marquis. I don't usually even bother with vehicles like that because I don't particularly like owning nice low mileage vehicles for the simple and plain reason I feel like I'm destroying something. The Mercedes that I own is a fairly nice low mileage vehicle that nearly got sent to the crusher people I've bought it from were getting ready to take it in for scrap metal because it was in the way of them putting a building on their property. The other car and van that I own like I said in bold cases the guy was getting ready to take them in for scrap the Van in the condition it's in at a used car lot around here will literally run you about five grand and you don't want to know about the car , it might not be pretty, but it's a 2006 special edition and couple that I priced in similar condition with higher mileage started out at about 2500

This will end... hilariously

Great example to be setting for Lil' Joey!