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@canefan said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@Snowy said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
Fuck I am struggling with this thread.
This lockdown has to end. What next bloody knitting?
Some of can't make or wear skin suits so we have to buy our clothes
You should learn. I mentioned knitting right?
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@Smudge said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@canefan said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
Locally I like the stuff from 3 wise men. Good patterns, decent quality for reasonable prices. And regularly on sale
Same here. Have two suits and three blazers from them and a number of shirts. All on sale, although it helps I'm friends with the local manager so she gives me a heads up on when the sales are coming up.
The girls they hire are usually easy on the eye too. Not a deal breaker but it's nice
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@Rapido said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
I fucking hate online shopping.
I just want to go into the shop and buy the fucking thing.
I just bought my first piece of online clothing during lockdown, a macpac padded vest so I can cycle during lockdown in freezing Wellington. It's too big. What a pain in the arse exchnaging it is going to be.
I'm wary of buying anywhere that doesn't have an excellent returns policy. Mr Porter overcharges, but at least they'll take something back no questions asked.
There are things that off the rack are basically guaranteed not to fit me. In Ginza I waltzed into the Hackett store looking for a sports jacket. Of course one that fitted across the shoulders was made for three of me in the waist. By the time it was tailored it would look like a detective's suit from Lowes.
Almost anything nice in Japan won't fit.
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@antipodean said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@Rapido said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
I fucking hate online shopping.
I just want to go into the shop and buy the fucking thing.
I just bought my first piece of online clothing during lockdown, a macpac padded vest so I can cycle during lockdown in freezing Wellington. It's too big. What a pain in the arse exchnaging it is going to be.
I'm wary of buying anywhere that doesn't have an excellent returns policy. Mr Porter overcharges, but at least they'll take something back no questions asked.
There are things that off the rack are basically guaranteed not to fit me. In Ginza I waltzed into the Hackett store looking for a sports jacket. Of course one that fitted across the shoulders was made for three of me in the waist. By the time it was tailored it would look like a detective's suit from Lowes.
Almost anything nice in Japan won't fit.
All of Asia is a write off
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@canefan said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@Smudge said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@canefan said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
Locally I like the stuff from 3 wise men. Good patterns, decent quality for reasonable prices. And regularly on sale
Same here. Have two suits and three blazers from them and a number of shirts. All on sale, although it helps I'm friends with the local manager so she gives me a heads up on when the sales are coming up.
The girls they hire are usually easy on the eye too. Not a deal breaker but it's nice
when i was much younger, i was in Politix in Sydney, and the shop assistant was hawt as fuck. She essentially joined me in the change room, tucking my shirts in to my pants etc
I bought so much. Certainly more than i could really afford! Brilliant salesman shit
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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!
That wouldn’t have been G&H, they are in Savile Row and only do bespoke. There used to be a Thomas Pink in Spitalfields, and a really good menswear shop in the arcade at 175 Bishopsgate whose name escapes me. A Scottish guy used to run it and it eventually became a Pret A Manger. I worked at 155 Bishopsgate for about 10 years!
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@antipodean said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@Crucial said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
I do sometimes tempt myself looking at the “classic” special re-runs you can get online from Levi such as a US$1200 60s suede trucker
cashed up hipsters
Hipsters wear late 70s and 80s trucker jackets with ugly sheepskin or leather collars.
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@mariner4life said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@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.
Every man should get one handmade suit before he dies I reckon. There’s nothing like wearing something that fits you exactly. A great tailor knows how to disguise all your faults (and i’ve got plenty!). My first measurement took a couple of hours, and the first suit took another 4 fittings. Subsequent ones were usually 3 fittings each. By far the biggest part of the cost is the fabric you choose.
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@JC 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!
That wouldn’t have been G&H, they are in Savile Row and only do bespoke. There used to be a Thomas Pink in Spitalfields, and a really good menswear shop in the arcade at 175 Bishopsgate whose name escapes me. A Scottish guy used to run it and it eventually became a Pret A Manger. I worked at 155 Bishopsgate for about 10 years!
That's the one. You could buy G&H from there though?
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@mariner4life said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@canefan said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
Most of my biggest mistakes were from leather or suede jackets. I think the idea of them is better than the reality
Yeah I burned through three in quick succession last year before scoring a Boss Orange leather / fabric hybrid on sale for $700. It's so much more versatile than an out-and-out leather jacket.
i have never found a leather jacket that didn't make me look like and extra on the Sopranos
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
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@antipodean said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@Rapido said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
I fucking hate online shopping.
I just want to go into the shop and buy the fucking thing.
I just bought my first piece of online clothing during lockdown, a macpac padded vest so I can cycle during lockdown in freezing Wellington. It's too big. What a pain in the arse exchnaging it is going to be.
I'm wary of buying anywhere that doesn't have an excellent returns policy. Mr Porter overcharges, but at least they'll take something back no questions asked.
There are things that off the rack are basically guaranteed not to fit me. In Ginza I waltzed into the Hackett store looking for a sports jacket. Of course one that fitted across the shoulders was made for three of me in the waist. By the time it was tailored it would look like a detective's suit from Lowes.
Almost anything nice in Japan won't fit.
Almost anything from Superdry won’t fit.
I’m not large but struggle to work out how anyone fits into anything of theirs less than XL -
On the whole I don't give a shit about clothes - my uniform is faded black jeans (the gap type, not the super tapers), and a band t-shirt, or a nice polo if I want a happy wife. We're pretty casual at my work, and I've been doing the gilet thing the last couple of years. So much so that when I don't wear one, everybody points it out.
However, every once in a while I go mental. You know, when your on one of those rare occasions you go shopping with the wife, and she says you should try something on. So you do, and it blows your mind.
Most expensive is around 2k USD on a Zegna suit.
My saddest purchase was when my wife bought (with me) a leather jacket for my birthday. It was around 800 quid. I returned it as it was the wrong size (the one I tried on in the shop and the new one they got me from the back were not the same size) and they didn't have a replacement. This thing was the nuts for fitting and style. Never found another one since, and thus my leather jacket search rolls on ...
Side note - if I drive my caterham in al leather jacket, I think I win mid-life crisis.
