Vogue Magazine Subscription

I have been a VOGUE subscriber for about four years now, since I started my college education. I have become increasingly aware, over these past four years, of Vogue's discriminating and condescending flavor for those reading who are not of socialite status. Given the small amount of socialites in this country, to whom Vogue seems to be tailoring its articles for, I would have to say the magazine is offensive to a large majority of its readers. Take for instance, the magazine's writing regarding fashion (uh-which is just about all of the writing in the first place but ANYWAY...). Excuse me if the pashmina and power bead bracelets, once available to the general public whose incomes are not a governmental tax offense, are now out of fashion because of the very fact that they are now available to the general public. How do these words..."Now that the pashmina has been relegated to the likes of shopping malls across country..." ring in the head of this middle class American? Well, not only am I offended at this snub that the fashion elite do not want to wear something just because other normal people are, I am disgusted with the disregard this magazine seems to have for the pride in hard work that many of its readers engage in. Pardon me, if it would take me three weeks of work-study paychecks to purchase a pashmina that will be out of fashion twenty-nine seconds thereafter. Honestly, who really wants to shop all day at Tiffany's only to come home at night to have Pierre cook you a four course meal while you are sifting through an endless number of unworn, over-priced shoes and clothing that are predominantly hideous anyway and snorting a line of cocaine so that the emptiness will subside until dinner is ready? Well, to be brutally honest, that is not the type of life I would find fulfilling. The money and clothes and the big penthouse on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan...it just doesn't bring the same satisfaction as working myself into a tizzy to finish writing that perfect paper for a class I want an "A" in, and therefore, I certainly don't want to read about this lifestyle in any magazine...especially one that idealizes it and makes it seem seductively appealing.
In sum, I think VOGUE contributes to the huge amount of dissatisfaction many Americans have for their lives, especially young women of middle class rank. We look to the media, to fashion magazines, for pointers and tips, not for comments of snobbery and distaste for our current status on the economic ladder. Not everyone can be so rich that you lose your sense of what's important, and to be realistic, do you really want to be that way? If you think you do...read VOGUE and you'll see through the farce of wealth and fame if you're smart. Imagine a life in which fashion fads that fade in and out with every passing second, faster than a 7-11 is built or a new dot com is created, dictates your every move and you live in fear of being relegated to the shopping mall.
Thanks VOGUE, but I'll stick to the shopping mall, to my GAP clothes and my hard working lifestyle. Self-sufficiency, intelligence, and an ability to think past the inventory of my material possessions allows me to hate this magazine and take comfort in knowing that all that it prints is shallow and meaningless.