Uniformity - There are some retail apparel workers in California who are suing their employers because they "being pressured" into buying the brand of clothing sold by the store in which they work. You know, for a seasonal employee, $500 seems like an awful lot of Gap clothing you'd need to own. $35,000 in Polo clothing? Why not buy one or two nice, versatile outfits and leave it at that? But, maybe I'm missing the whole basis of the lawsuit. As a one-time Retail Professional, I am definitely not convinced that anyone forced or coerced these employees to buy that much clothing. Yes, retails managers DO pressure employees to make purchases and to wear clothing that is from the brand for which they work. But I don't feel much sympathy for people who are so easily manipulated and won't stand up for themselves to challenge the attitude of managers when it clearly goes against the written corporate policies.