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@Hooroo said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@JC said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@mariner4life 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.
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
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@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@canefan Yeah and I knew that, to a degree. I recall still being surprised by the size of the tax/duty component though!
If you exceed the 400NZD barrier (old rules) and they flag you, not only do you pay GST there is a hefty processing fee as well. I've been caught before and lost any monetary advantage I gained from buying it offshore
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@canefan said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@mariner4life sports shoes are so much cheaper from the US
i bought my favourite pair in NY for what i thought was fuck all. Jesus that's coming up 4 years ago!!
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@mariner4life said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@canefan said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@mariner4life sports shoes are so much cheaper from the US
i bought my favourite pair in NY for what i thought was fuck all. Jesus that's coming up 4 years ago!!
I have boxed up mizuno runners and a couple of pairs of tiger ultimate 82s boxed and hidden away. I'm a sucker for the 82s
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@mariner4life said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@canefan said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@mariner4life sports shoes are so much cheaper from the US
i bought my favourite pair in NY for what i thought was fuck all. Jesus that's coming up 4 years ago!!
Sneakers were so cheap in NYC! I bought a couple of pairs in 2017, firstly from this mad, mad Nike store and then when my wife and I got a ridiculous deal on multiple pairs at another retailer; I think we ended up paying NZD50 each for three pairs of adidas sneakers and next to nothing for kids' shoes.
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@canefan said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@canefan Yeah and I knew that, to a degree. I recall still being surprised by the size of the tax/duty component though!
If you exceed the 400NZD barrier (old rules) and they flag you, not only do you pay GST there is a hefty processing fee as well. I've been caught before and lost any monetary advantage I gained from buying it offshore
Yeah I think maybe it was the processing fee that made it excessive. One of the times I collected an item there was almost an interrogation from some old fart customs guy too.
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@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@canefan said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@canefan Yeah and I knew that, to a degree. I recall still being surprised by the size of the tax/duty component though!
If you exceed the 400NZD barrier (old rules) and they flag you, not only do you pay GST there is a hefty processing fee as well. I've been caught before and lost any monetary advantage I gained from buying it offshore
Yeah I think maybe it was the processing fee that made it excessive. One of the times I collected an item there was almost an interrogation from some old fart customs guy too.
Then to cap it off the farking thing doesn't fit and you end up selling to some lucky bastard on trade me
