Good value mens clothes online

lol .. "credit crunch beating", how exactly is saving on jeans going to help the "credit crunch"? Sorry I just really hate how that saying is thrown around at everything now.

I agree with paradigm here, I buy a lot of stuff online but clothes is the exception for me as it's good to get a proper look at them which I don't think you can on the internet.
 
xen_ said:
lol .. "credit crunch beating", how exactly is saving on jeans going to help the "credit crunch"? Sorry I just really hate how that saying is thrown around at everything now.

I agree with paradigm here, I buy a lot of stuff online but clothes is the exception for me as it's good to get a proper look at them which I don't think you can on the internet.
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I just think you should save money where possible in times of recession. It makes sense to me. If I can get exactly the same product cheaper, then that's what I'll do. Like paradigm, financially I'm fine and this recession is extremely unlikely to harm me, but it may well harm others close to me, so that £35 saved go end up going on to me loan to my brothers / sisters. But wasted money from sheer impatience to me seems very very silly.
 
Ebay. Loads of stolen clothes on there! Managed to get two firetrap tshirts, brand new with tags and packaging, for 59p :p
 
paradigm said:
But if I've gone to town and found what I like, I... buy it.

Whats the point in waiting another 3-5 days, and then risk the item being damaged.

All to save a fiver? No thanks, I'm not that hard up.
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Stuff the money (to a certain extent).

If I'm wearing it, I can feel it, and am likely to feel it a lot. Clothes are not mobile phones or PC kit. I want to experience how it feels and fits.

I'll still buy online once I've tried it though, of course. But I won't buy online without trying the item on.
 
aproctor said:
Asos returns are very good...
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I got as far as this:
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and oh my god that shop is too camp even for Rupert Everett.
 
paradigm said:
Never understood the point of buying clothes online.

You don't get to try them on, you don't get to hang items in front of one another to see if they "go", you don't get to make sure that what you are getting a) fits properly, and b) isn't damaged.

Buying online just seems like a real lazy way of buying clothes that (potentially) ends up more complex and time consuming than actually getting off your arse.
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Completely agree with this. I would never buy online. In particular I want to see what material is used - because even "named" brands (which I hate, because they chuck their logo all over your clothes) often use cheap materials that won't survive a couple of washes.
 
Well not really, I'm sure all of us could save a lot of money if we wanted to, but it all depends on hassle. I'm not going to start drinking smart price coke instead of coca cola in an effort to spend less. I normally try to get a better deal and try not to waste money anyway.
 
caff said:
Completely agree with this. I would never buy online. In particular I want to see what material is used - because even "named" brands (which I hate, because they chuck their logo all over your clothes) often use cheap materials that won't survive a couple of washes.
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So just buy it online and return it if you don't like it...
 
I wouldn't go M and M if I were you, from what I've bought off them (~£300ish of assorted stuff) half of it has been spot on, but the other half were basically disposable clothes that looked great first time on, but shoddy every time after (It's alright though, fits in with the whole tramp thing I've got going on). I'm not sure but I'd take a guess that some of their clothes didn't make it past quality control.

At the minute I'm buying off http://www.devilwear.co.uk/ which aside from the Skiing rubbish seems to be the sole UK supplier of Jack and Jones bar the retail shops. Which is all nice good quality stuff and is therefore spoiling my trampy image :(

EDIT forgot to add in, never used ASOS personally (like someone else said it's a bit camp for my liking) but a mate of mine swears by it and dresses himself almost entirely from it. Apart from being a bit ridiculous at least it means they've satisfied him though!
 
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So just buy it online and return it if you don't like it...
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And then you wait another 3-5 days whilst you send that back, get your refund, and then another 3-5 days whilst you await something else.

In the mean time I've bought my clothes from a SHOP, used them, gone places in them, had fun. etc etc etc.
 
The biggest taker for me buying clothes online is that you can get INDIVIDUAL clothes. If I buy a t-shirt from top man/river island/other generic high street store I go into a club the next week and see another 5 people wearing it. Especially if its brightly coloured with a distinctive pattern.

I've even gone as far to order t-shirts from america before just due to thier uniqueness and for the creativity. It's definatly worth it when you have people daily commenting on how cool your t-shirts are just because they're like nothing they've seen before.

Some of my personal favourites include:

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paradigm said:
And then you wait another 3-5 days whilst you send that back, get your refund, and then another 3-5 days whilst you await something else.

In the mean time I've bought my clothes from a SHOP, used them, gone places in them, had fun. etc etc etc.
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lol, I have to say some of what you've said has been truly ridiculous.

You've gone to places and had fun in the time waiting? So in your old clothes you couldn't have fun, but your new ones and its wahey everywhere you go, presumably only till they aren't new?

Why do you keep saying 3-5 days, most of what I buy from most of the places i buy, i get it next day, which for most people who work and don't have time to shop in the day means they might get clothes midweek before they'd be able to go and buy the same stuff in the store at the weekend.

Likewise, if you're over 18 and don't know your size and can't mostly accurately guess what will fit I don't know how you cope with life.

Likewise, you don't have to buy one item of clothing, go try it on and waste fuel money doing so. What if you go to a town, spend you're £7.50 on car wear and tear, try in every single item of clothing and over the next 6 months, or in one order buy everything you liked. You could buy one pair of jeans for a £30 saving, or you could buy 50 items of clothing and save £30 on them all.

Theres entirely no difference to buying a monitor, or clothes online, or anything else, cheaper = cheaper and theres entirely nothing else to the argument.

infact the 2-3 items of clothing I haven't been happy with over the past 5 years that I didn't bother to send back due to being a cheap £5 t-shirt or socks or something, are FAR FAR outweighed by the money I've saved buying the rest online.

It doesn't matter how much money you have, or how well you're doing right now at the very beginning of a likely very VERY long recession, money is money, you're spending more for entirely ridiculous reasons.
 
EDIT: infact sod it.You want to save a few pence here and there, be my guest.

I don't need to justify my spending habits, nor prove to anyone that I'm financially stable for the forseeable future.
 
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