Online Shopping - Clobber
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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.
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@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
I've bought a couple of suits and several shirts there over time, all g. But their merino crew necks may as well be mesh they're so thin, and their shoes are of horrific quality.
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Skinny motherfuckers like me can wear the shit out of superdry. I just hate how big the logo is most of the time
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@shark said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@Crucial Yeah fucking Superdry. I'm nearly always a XXL, but the fit of their long sleeved tees is fucked and I need a fucking XXXL to get the girth but the sleeves are then like I'm a dwarf in a sack.
I like some of their stuff. But I usually have to buy a size or two up in t shirts
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@mariner4life said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
Skinny motherfuckers like me can wear the shit out of superdry. I just hate how big the logo is most of the time
I’m skinny too. I just hate having to buy fatboy sizes to get something that fits.
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@mariner4life said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
Skinny motherfuckers like me can wear the shit out of superdry. I just hate how big the logo is most of the time
I don't buy the big logo stuff anymore. But their T shirt styles are quite good
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@Crucial said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
@mariner4life said in Online Shopping - Clobber:
Skinny motherfuckers like me can wear the shit out of superdry. I just hate how big the logo is most of the time
I’m skinny too. I just hate having to buy fatboy sizes to get something that fits.
I think you meant "buff sizes". Pretty sure that's what you meant.
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I am actually waiting on something from Superdry atm. Ordinarily it ships from the UK and via DHL I think. But this item is coming from Australia via Australia Post and as of last Tuesday the tracking only shows it as having been prepared for despatch. Meanwhile only a few days ago I've bought Mrs Shark some sporty g-bangers from The Iconic (this is a ham-fisted attempt to throw her a bone which she'll see through immediately as an attempt to make her butt look hot even in boring sports undies) and myself a cap and socks from Culture Kings and those items' tracking have them nearly here. The CK stuff is Australia Post just like the Superdry order. Bah.
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@shark god i miss when Mrs Mariner used to wear hot undies. Now everything is functional. Or, if we are going out, fucking spanx. so hot...
