Th is article is a part of a critical perspective analysis of modern society. Th e author is convinced that such choice of the research problem: discourse about school costumes and fi rst communion costumes, may help to understand the processes of social change taking place in Poland for at least twenty-fi ve years. Th e article is an attempt to show the symptoms of anti-consumerist attitudes in the Polish society on the examples of the discourse about school costumes and fi rst communion costumes. Th e theoretical frames in which the author puts his analysis are composed by notions created by Rolandes Barthes and Pierre Bourdieu. By implementing a discourse analysis in some texts chosen from Internet, the author shows three types of argume...