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@antipodean said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
I use Mr Porter more than I should.
Dropped in there to look at some shoes. Thank fark they don't have my size - GBP1500 for a pair of shoes?!?
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@nzzp said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@antipodean said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
I use Mr Porter more than I should.
Dropped in there to look at some shoes. Thank fark they don't have my size - GBP1500 for a pair of shoes?!?
fuck!!
I get all my shit from Politix, because i know it fits perfectly straight off the rack.
@shark have you checked out Chunk t-shirts from the UK? They have good ones.
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@mariner4life said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
if ever there was a thread to invite Mrs Mariner in to my Fern world (which she acknowledges is a real and essential thing) then this is it. She is the motherfucking queen of online shopping.
The shear number of packages that arrive (mainly to her work) leading up to something like a race day is a sight to behold. And she has the whole system sussed.
I think this might be one of the last bastions to be broken down on TSF, partially inspired by the amount of us who clearly love a good cook-up on the food thread, and in part attributable to boredom.
Mrs Shark is also an online shopping queen. She's able to do it a little less obviously than me normally because I'll be at work when most of the packages arrive. As a result I'd taken to having some stuff delivered to work, prior to the lockdown. But when she gives me grief, I have a rough enough idea of what she spends on her expensive make-up, skin care and perfumes that I can retort in kind. Plus to be safe every now and then I'll order her something to keep her off my back.
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@mariner4life Politix fucked me off recently when a jacket never arrived. Got refunded eventually.
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@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@mariner4life Politix fucked me off recently when a jacket never arrived. Got refunded eventually.
shit, i have never had a problem with them! that's unlucky mate.
They have incredible sales too.
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@mariner4life said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@mariner4life Politix fucked me off recently when a jacket never arrived. Got refunded eventually.
shit, i have never had a problem with them! that's unlucky mate.
They have incredible sales too.
Have you seen the 'Zealand' jacket?
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@nzzp said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@antipodean said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
I use Mr Porter more than I should.
Dropped in there to look at some shoes. Thank fark they don't have my size - GBP1500 for a pair of shoes?!?
OK on the bakc of this: most expensive item of apparel ever purchased?
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@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@mariner4life said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@mariner4life Politix fucked me off recently when a jacket never arrived. Got refunded eventually.
shit, i have never had a problem with them! that's unlucky mate.
They have incredible sales too.
Have you seen the 'Zealand' jacket?
no. i have not
just checked it out. Wow. It's like a casual dinner jacket.
Not really my thing. Nor do i have too much use for it, living where i do. I alread have more jackets (blazers) than someone who lives in the tropics has any right to own
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@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@nzzp said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@antipodean said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
I use Mr Porter more than I should.
Dropped in there to look at some shoes. Thank fark they don't have my size - GBP1500 for a pair of shoes?!?
OK on the bakc of this: most expensive item of apparel ever purchased?
dunno, i would have to think. It wouldn't be much i don't reckon, i don't pay full price, and i don't buy many items that are overly costly, simply because i don't have the reason to wear them
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@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@nzzp said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@antipodean said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
I use Mr Porter more than I should.
Dropped in there to look at some shoes. Thank fark they don't have my size - GBP1500 for a pair of shoes?!?
OK on the bakc of this: most expensive item of apparel ever purchased?
When I lived in London, once a month I would buy a new shirt from Interno8 which was the distributor for https://angelogalasso.com/collections/shirts.html Most comfortable and amazingly styled shirts.
I never paid 1000 quid for one but remembered spending more than I should have.
Every now and then I will order one if a horse gets me a good collect
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@nzzp said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@antipodean said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
I use Mr Porter more than I should.
Dropped in there to look at some shoes. Thank fark they don't have my size - GBP1500 for a pair of shoes?!?
Guessing they were Lobb Oxfords? They're very nice. Get them resoled and they'll last decades.
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@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@nzzp said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@antipodean said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
I use Mr Porter more than I should.
Dropped in there to look at some shoes. Thank fark they don't have my size - GBP1500 for a pair of shoes?!?
OK on the bakc of this: most expensive item of apparel ever purchased?
Oh don't ask that. Do you mean the actual cost or the price I tell Mrs JC?
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@JC said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@nzzp said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@antipodean said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
I use Mr Porter more than I should.
Dropped in there to look at some shoes. Thank fark they don't have my size - GBP1500 for a pair of shoes?!?
OK on the bakc of this: most expensive item of apparel ever purchased?
Oh don't ask that. Do you mean the actual cost or the price I tell Mrs JC?
i just asked Mrs Mariner, and it's really not much. She buys it all on sale. Less than $400
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@mariner4life said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@JC said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@nzzp said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@antipodean said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
I use Mr Porter more than I should.
Dropped in there to look at some shoes. Thank fark they don't have my size - GBP1500 for a pair of shoes?!?
OK on the bakc of this: most expensive item of apparel ever purchased?
Oh don't ask that. Do you mean the actual cost or the price I tell Mrs JC?
i just asked Mrs Mariner, and it's really not much. She buys it all on sale. Less than $400
Suits. I had a suit habit (possibly an addiction). Gieves and Hawkes, at least one per year, all of them north of 5 grand (Sterling). One Ozwald Boateng one that was a work of art. Now they're all in storage as I have absolutely no reason to wear them. So I've started on Armani jeans. Always J26 cut because I know they fit well. Different colours and fabrics. Maybe 15 pairs? I need an intervention probably.
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Not really wanting to interrupt all you hipsters but not that expensive but indulgent. I had a cashmere suit made in Singapore for about $800.
Why is it indulgent? Because I wear it one day a year during Art Deco festival. The tailor kept on checking with me that I really wanted 500mm wide trouser cuffs...
Also had a 30's blue pinstripe suit and some vintage shirts made in Hanoi from photos I found online. They were cheap as though.
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I bought a Gieves and Hawkes white cable knit jumper this time last year in Hong Kong. Still haven't worn it.
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fucking lol, the courier just dropped off a package for the wife. Dress for the races we aren't even allowed to go to yet!
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@shark It is closed for sales at the moment but every now and then it is worth looking at TK Maxx.
It may be a clearance store but they get some pretty good stuff to clear sometimes.I have brought £150 John White Chukkas for £40 there. A £300 Deisel denim jacket for £70. I used to buy Ben Sherman jeans that I knew where a great fit on me from there at half the price of at BS.
Some of the best bargains are in the socks and undies where quality branded stuff is at crazy prices.You can pick up some real quality if you search enough. Trickers shoes, Trench Coats from the likes of Hackett and Dunhill at crazy prices (like £1,000 off), Timberland, Geox….all sorts of brands that you would expect and all guaranteed as the real McCoy.
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@JC said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@mariner4life said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@JC said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@nzzp said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@antipodean said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
I use Mr Porter more than I should.
Dropped in there to look at some shoes. Thank fark they don't have my size - GBP1500 for a pair of shoes?!?
OK on the bakc of this: most expensive item of apparel ever purchased?
Oh don't ask that. Do you mean the actual cost or the price I tell Mrs JC?
i just asked Mrs Mariner, and it's really not much. She buys it all on sale. Less than $400
Suits. I had a suit habit (possibly an addiction). Gieves and Hawkes, at least one per year, all of them north of 5 grand (Sterling). One Ozwald Boateng one that was a work of art. Now they're all in storage as I have absolutely no reason to wear them. So I've started on Armani jeans. Always J26 cut because I know they fit well. Different colours and fabrics. Maybe 15 pairs? I need an intervention probably.
I used to work round the corner on Bishopsgate from G&H in Spitalfields (?) Market I think it was. I remember purchasing my first ever pink work shirt from there. Only biffed it a couple of months ago so it was nearly 15 years old!
