"Homeless chic" used to flog £500 trainers

[killer b]

Personally, I think any wankstain that pays £600.00 for a sweatshirt should be put up against a wall.

What's your upper limit for a postage stamp?

 

[Sasaferrato]

did you spunk £600 on any single item of clothing when you were a teenager? the most expensive things i bought were dms (£50 iirc) and a leather jacknet - again £50.

I have never spent more than £50.00 on clothing other than suits and a leather jacket.

My daughter is having the bad manners to be getting married again, necessitating the purchase of a new suit, rather than continuing to live over the brush, which doesn't.

I had a wee recce on Saturday to price suits, I had to lie down in a cool dark place for a while after I got home.

 

[Wookey]

Humblebragging

sorry, good for you.

Someone clearly has time to follow my career (the Royal British Legion event was YEARS ago) so I thought they might like an update.

 

[Wookey]

You get paid to save the world, now?

Don't mistake my reply as the beginnings of a conversation, it wasn't.

 

[killer b]

Someone clearly has time to follow my career (the Royal British Legion event was YEARS ago).

it was an all-time classic thread though. absolute humdinger.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Personally, I think any wankstain that pays £600.00 for a sweatshirt should be put up against a wall.

I don't think we should go that far, but it does tend to suggest that there's an imbalance in society's values, especially when you see "rich people of...." popping up on YouTube wearing them, proving what assholes they are.

 

[likesfish]

Hugo Boss still get upset if you ask them for anything in black with skulls so don't do that

Paid £40 for a sabaton hoody for my son it's printed all over both mine were less than a tenner off flea Bay Apprantly hollister aren't cool and trendy any more according to my daughter she's annoyed a got a pair of timberland boots for £50

 

[Sasaferrato]

What's your upper limit for a postage stamp?

Depends on the budget. The most I've paid for a single stamp is circa £150.00, but now it could be sold for about £200.00. Catalogue value is pretty meaningless really, I have a stack of Germany 1 - 10, which catalogue about €1000.00, but you regularly pick them up in £20.00 bulk lots.

Every collector knows that they are going to be sold sometime, and tries to maximise the value of the collection.

 

[Sasaferrato]

My 16 year old bought a pair of pre-ripped jeans from Hollisters over the holidays which cost her north of £40 which I thought ridiculous, I suggested she get a pair from Primark and I would lend her a Stanley knife
I was accused of not getting fashion which is probably true but it's hard to see how one set of holes can be more fashionable than another.
But she would find a £600 hoodie as ridiculous as I do, a £40 hoodie maybe, you could at least understand that it might be much better quality than a £15 one but paying £600 is just pure added snobbery, look at me I am so rich I can afford to pay 10-12x what a regular person would pay for the same hoodie because I am so rich that I can.

That made me LOL!

 

[killer b]

Depends on the budget. The most I've paid for a single stamp is circa £150.00, but now it could be sold for about £200.00. Catalogue value is pretty meaningless really, I have a stack of Germany 1 - 10, which catalogue about €1000.00, but you regularly pick them up in £20.00 bulk lots.

Every collector knows that they are going to be sold sometime, and tries to maximise the value of the collection.

Would you have collectors who'd pay £600 for a stamp lined up and shot? If not, what's the difference between him and someone who would pay £600 for a hoodie?

 

[Sasaferrato]

ting is I can see myself talking myself into the 500 pound trainers if I was reasonably wealthy, yet not the hoodie. Trainers somehow different. Obvs the display is a bit fucked but *alan voice* these people.

The thing that makes me piss myself laughing is the top of the range trainers that never move faster than a shuffle.

My gym trainers are Sketchers, cost £30.00 in the Sketchers discount place, and are wonderful. Really comfortable, and enough heel padding to take the hardness out of the treadmill.

 

[Athos]

it was an all-time classic thread though. absolute humdinger.

It was a belter.

 

[killer b]

Worth pointing out (again) that while £600 is a high price to pay for an item of clothing, the current prices paid by consumers for high street fashion in the UK is artificially low, paid for by poor pay and bad conditions in the countries they are manufactured, and unemployment here because domestic industry can’t compete on price.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Would you have collectors who'd pay £600 for a stamp lined up and shot? If not, what's the difference between him and someone who would pay £600 for a hoodie?

A postage stamp selling for £600.00 is a miniature work of art, a classic that will appreciate in value as the years roll on.

A sweatshirt is just that, I suppose if people are deluded enough to believe the hype, they deserve pity rather than anger. No sweatshirt is worth £600.00, not now not ever.

It is a sign that a serious readjustment of tax rates is overdue.

 

[Sasaferrato]

Worth pointing out (again) that while £600 is a high price to pay for an item of clothing, the current prices paid by consumers for high street fashion in the UK is artificially low, paid for by poor pay and bad conditions in the countries they are manufactured, and unemployment here because domestic industry can’t compete on price.

You seriously think that these garments aren't manufactured in the same sweatshops? I recall an investigation in Bangladesh by one of the TV companies, the reporter holding up top name labels, all made in the same appalling conditions.

 

[killer b]

A postage stamp selling for £600.00 is a miniature work of art, a classic that will appreciate in value as the years roll on.

A sweatshirt is just that, I suppose if people are deluded enough to believe the hype, they deserve pity rather than anger. No sweatshirt is worth £600.00, not now not ever.

A postage stamp is just a little bit of printed paper. The value is created by the collector, not by the intrinsic value of the item.

The resale value of fashion to collectors is often well beyond the original retail price fwiw. I doubt that will be the case with this hoody, but who knows?

 

[Sasaferrato]

I don't think we should go that far, but it does tend to suggest that there's an imbalance in society's values, especially when you see "rich people of...." popping up on YouTube wearing them, proving what assholes they are.

It's a half like, I want to see them up against a wall.

 

[Sasaferrato]

A postage stamp is just a little bit of printed paper. The value is created by the collector, not by the intrinsic value of the item.

The resale value of fashion to collectors is often well beyond the original retail price fwiw. I doubt that will be the case with this hoody, but who knows?

I've got £100k of catalogue value in this room, about £20k real world resale value. Try doing that with sweatshirts, you would need a very very big room.

 

[NoXion]

The style of New Rock boots that I'd be interested in having generally go for about £200-£250. But at least they actually look different to the £65 Caterpillar safety boots I'm currently wearing.

 

[butchersapron]

it was an all-time classic thread though. absolute humdinger.

From:

The poppy cascade probably cost me about £2500 to put on, which mostly went on CO2 cannisters at £600 a pop.

 

[klang]

I've got £100k of catalogue value in this room, about £20k real world resale value. Try doing that with sweatshirts, you would need a very very big room.

there are plenty of one-of-a-kind vintage fashion shops stocking garments of ridiculous retail value.

 

[klang]

why are people here so shocked that there are expensive fashion shops?

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

It's a half like, I want to see them up against a wall.

TBH, in my darker moments, I do too.

 

[blairsh]

It really is Monday.

 

[killer b]

I've got £100k of catalogue value in this room, about £20k real world resale value. Try doing that with sweatshirts, you would need a very very big room.

at 600 quid a pop, I'd just need a medium sized wardrobe.

 

[killer b]

You seriously think that these garments aren't manufactured in the same sweatshops? I recall an investigation in Bangladesh by one of the TV companies, the reporter holding up top name labels, all made in the same appalling conditions.

I can't find anything about their hoodies, but the high end fashion houses tend to manufacture domestically - so I'd expect them to be made in France.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I can't find anything about their hoodies, but the high end fashion houses tend to manufacture domestically - so I'd expect them to be made in France.

Or even Spain given it's a Spanish company....

 

[not-bono-ever]

The same bollocks came out when some young Elizabethan guns decided to buy new ruffes in the latest continental style
Zzzzzzz

 

[killer b]

Or even Spain given it's a Spanish company....

yes sorry. brainfart.

 

[killer b]

(they are owned by a french company now though)