Limit my speech, my actions, but leave me my thoughts!

In the Nation of Rebels, it talks about how clothes indirectly restrict who we want to be because how we dress depicts so much of who we are and what messages we want to get across. So by moving with the social trends marks us as a conformed society reacting to the changes of others and letting it affect our own mark of independence. This limitation on what society deems appropriate or socially normal, does it affect how we think or who we want to be? Well if you look back to early Greece or the Renaissance, periods of great achievement and success in the way of the arts and knowledge, there were no logos, no trademarks, and people made things with enormous amounts of detail and quality for pride and to better themselves and their society. Now, to get something with high quality or originality it will cost you an arm and a leg. Everything else is cheap, and mass produced over seas in sweatshops in order to serve the masses.