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Strangely Normal | Menswear | Tailors | New Zealand
50s and 60s Style Menswear and Bespoke Tailoring. Strangely Normal 19 O'Connell St, Auckland CBD, 1010, New Zealand. Phone: 09 309 0600
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@mariner4life said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@JC said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
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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?!?
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!
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@Hooroo said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@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!
I've got a few of those, they are quality
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@mariner4life said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@Hooroo said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@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!
I've got a few of those, they are quality
Also got a Hugo Boss and Armani suit from them. Neither were in the realms of @JC's cost. (Which I love that you paid that much for quality!)
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@Hooroo said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@mariner4life said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@Hooroo said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@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!
I've got a few of those, they are quality
Also got a Hugo Boss and Armani suit from them. Neither were in the realms of @JC's cost. (Which I love that you paid that much for quality!)
i wear suits to the races and no where else. So i don't pay much for them.
Would love to get a good one, but for no real reason.
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I have 1 suit, worn it half a time...I say half a time as when I got it, the leg needed to be adjusted, so got that done...
Went to GC last year for work, took suit for an event, as I got dressed the pants were so fucking small, I was like WTF...looked at label and they had a low number...both wife and I had some adjustments done to pants (same colour) at same time, so I had packed hers instead of mine...
No one else had any to fit me, so I wore jeans to the black tie event, luckily lighting was low, so no one actually noticed, even when our CEO called me out when he was on stage, everyone thought he was talking about the other guy with same first name as thats the kind of thing he might do....
So am yet to wear the pants to my suit, hence the half time wear!
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On suits, I'm the same as many of you ie wearing one is a rarity. Typically it'll be once a year to a regional House of the Year dinner (I hire a dinner suit for the national event) and historically I would wear a suit to the races. But these days I'm more inclined to mix up chinos and blazers with an open collar shirt at Riccarton for the Cup because it just doesn't feel all that formal there these days even in the members'. So I wouldn't have spent more than $700 on a suit normally, but the last one I got from Working Style cost me around $1300.
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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 have a jacket problem. Not suit jackets but the likes of trench coats, leather jackets, moto jackets etc. I'll spend up to $1,000 on a jacket (Boss, Scotch & Soda, Belstaff, Allsaints etc), but the worst of it is I'll only wear it a handful of teams in a season and then flick it off on trademe for a fraction of what I paid for it. Only very occasionally will I regret moving a jacket on and only because I realise in hindsight it was quite unique.
Back when tax and duty were never included in the price of an item coming from overseas and they were typically added to products coming into NZ, I got stung a couple of times, inflating the price beyond what I'd expected. I bought a Scotch & Soda 'gentlemans' coat' from a joint called Probus NYC. It was on sale so down to something like USD250. The conversion wasn't ridiculous but I ended up paying something like another NZD250 inflating the total price to around $700 for what was supposed to have been a good deal. Same thing happened with a Belstaff jacket but it ended up being around $900 and wasn't even a leather one!
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@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@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 have a jacket problem. Not suit jackets but the likes of trench coats, leather jackets, moto jackets etc. I'll spend up to $1,000 on a jacket (Boss, Scotch & Soda, Belstaff, Allsaints etc), but the worst of it is I'll only wear it a handful of teams in a season and then flick it off on trademe for a fraction of what I paid for it. Only very occasionally will I regret moving a jacket on and only because I realise in hindsight it was quite unique.
Back when tax and duty were never included in the price of an item coming from overseas and they were typically added to products coming into NZ, I got stung a couple of times, inflating the price beyond what I'd expected. I bought a Scotch & Soda 'gentlemans' coat' from a joint called Probus NYC. It was on sale so down to something like USD250. The conversion wasn't ridiculous but I ended up paying something like another NZD250 inflating the total price to around $700 for what was supposed to have been a good deal. Same thing happened with a Belstaff jacket but it ended up being around $900 and wasn't even a leather one!
check out fucking moneybags over here!
Mine used to be sneakers, but i have resisted for ages. I am down to half a dozen pairs of Onitsuka Tigers, and just a couple of others.
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@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
Same thing happened with a Belstaff jacket but it ended up being around $900 and wasn't even a leather one!
Waxed cotton jackets are their thing...
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@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@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 have a jacket problem. Not suit jackets but the likes of trench coats, leather jackets, moto jackets etc. I'll spend up to $1,000 on a jacket (Boss, Scotch & Soda, Belstaff, Allsaints etc), but the worst of it is I'll only wear it a handful of teams in a season and then flick it off on trademe for a fraction of what I paid for it. Only very occasionally will I regret moving a jacket on and only because I realise in hindsight it was quite unique.
Back when tax and duty were never included in the price of an item coming from overseas and they were typically added to products coming into NZ, I got stung a couple of times, inflating the price beyond what I'd expected. I bought a Scotch & Soda 'gentlemans' coat' from a joint called Probus NYC. It was on sale so down to something like USD250. The conversion wasn't ridiculous but I ended up paying something like another NZD250 inflating the total price to around $700 for what was supposed to have been a good deal. Same thing happened with a Belstaff jacket but it ended up being around $900 and wasn't even a leather one!
That's the risk of offshore clothes shopping. And if you use a freight forwarder like NZ post it becomes complicated if the item isn't right and you want costs to and it back
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@antipodean Either way. This was just a lightly padded moto jacket. Not leather OR waxed.
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@mariner4life sports shoes are so much cheaper from the US
