What's your most expensive clothing purchase?

Reality|Bites · 18 Jul 2016 at 19:06

Back when I was a teenager I would love to buy all the designer labels such as CK Polo Armani YSL etc, and think I was cool lol. Nowadays I look at it all as overpriced and no way would I ever pay for it.
Then just a minute ago I googled Tom Ford after seeing his label on a TV show called POWER. My jaw dropped as the prices. £800 for a jumper £600 for a pair of Jeans. Who the hell buys this and thinks it worth it?

The most I've ever spent was £80 on a Jumper and £150 on a pair of boots.

bored now but you know what I mean

cainer · 18 Jul 2016 at 19:07

Ralph Lauren puffer jacket, £180 ~14 years ago
wear it in the winter, still looks brand new.

teenwolf · 18 Jul 2016 at 19:07

£8.99 on a naffco 54 coat

Rannoch · 18 Jul 2016 at 19:10

I spent £800 on a Richard James suit about 5 years ago.

Note to self ---- don't drink in Harvey Nichols bar all afternoon and then go shopping.

The Funktopus · 18 Jul 2016 at 19:11

Roughly £350 each on a pair of suits that get used perhaps once or twice a year, if that. Gives me an incentive not to let myself go. :eek:

Yas786 · 18 Jul 2016 at 19:12

Spent £500 on a Hugo Boss suit as my old one was getting knackered.

Then spent £350 on a G Star bomber jacket for the winter, probably the best 350 I've ever spent lol.

Malevolence · 18 Jul 2016 at 19:13

I've never been one for designer labels and all that **** or allowing other people to dictate what I should be wearing because it's apparently "in fashion".

As for my most expensive purchase, I'd have to guess but I'd say it was my ¾ length black suede jacket. As a rule I try to never go above £100 on any item of clothing.

Rannoch · 18 Jul 2016 at 19:13

Yas786 said:
Spent £500 on a Hugo Boss suit as my old one was getting knackered.

Then spent £350 on a G Star bomber jacket for the winter, probably the best 350 I've ever spent lol.

Money well spent if you like it.

pooley · 18 Jul 2016 at 19:18

teenwolf said:
£8.99 on a naffco 54 coat

they were indeed naff

dink · 18 Jul 2016 at 19:19

£670 for the Hugo Boss suit I got married in.

Haggisman · 18 Jul 2016 at 19:20

Probably £250 on a wetsuit

Yeah, I'm a cheapskate!

lafemmefatale · 18 Jul 2016 at 19:22

£450 on a pair of shoes.

On the opposite side of this, I picked up a genuine Vivienne Westwood skirt for £20 in a pop-up charity store recently. Sold it for £280.

Salsa · 18 Jul 2016 at 19:26

£700 on my Kilt - much smarter than any suit

£400 on my Arcteryx waterproof jacket but it was well worth it!

/Salsa

Derek W · 18 Jul 2016 at 19:30

I was thinking that i don't really spend stupid amounts on clothing then I remembered my Kilt was over £800.

datalol-jack · 18 Jul 2016 at 19:31

Me, clothes... pfft? -- I wear nature's own circuitry. But I did once buy someone a onesie for 300 shinies!

Its sweatshop price is probably less than a tenner. Oh well. Whatever twiddles one's fibres, I suppose.

Tacitus · 18 Jul 2016 at 19:39

Spent £350 on a suit (Suit Supply) and I've spent £350 on a leather jacket (Soul Revolver).

Love both. Wear both most weeks.

lafemmefatale · 18 Jul 2016 at 19:41

A £300 onesie? :eek:

Wouldn't happen to have a link to said garment would you?

chaparral · 18 Jul 2016 at 19:44

Reality|Bites said:
The most I've ever spent was £80 on a Jumper and £150 on a pair of boots

I go through a pair of dewalt rigger boots about every 3 months... :mad:

And they cost me between £60 to £70 per pair each time..

datalol-jack · 18 Jul 2016 at 19:48

lafemmefatale said:
A £300 onesie?

Wouldn't happen to have a link to said garment would you?

We are talking seven years ago, the halcyon hipster days before hipsterism became mainstream.

The season's long passed. Searching by price on the Bay of Es returned no banana.

Still, pick any M&S monstrosity and imagine it in royal purple... with ears and a hood. No, I'm not joking.

lafemmefatale · 18 Jul 2016 at 19:50

I'm not gonna lie... that sounds awesome.