well, there is travel Hockey ( which is more expensive and travels more), travel basketball, baseball, and soccer. Name the sport, there is travel at the youth level. They are all expensive and a cash play, but that is the time we live in. The days of the kids getting on a bike and ridding to the school yard to play and returning at dinnertime are long gone. Most of us are just trying to keep the kids engaged at a sport they enjoy and excel at. If little johnny his sweatshirt with his matching socks, so be it. Why deter him ? there are worse things our kids could be involved in.