Current Events > I bought $220.84 jeans

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It hurts that I'm $79.16 of an exclusive CE club tbh

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Well that was dumb

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I don't get it...300 wha?

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MabusIncarnate posted...

Well that was dumb

Go on

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I did that once, when I bout six pairs of jeans at the same time.

pinky0926 posted...

Go on

Make sure you never wash them and freeze them.

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pinky0926 posted...

It hurts that I'm $79.16 of an exclusive CE club tbh

*short
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But are they comfortable

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Do they showcase the bulge?

Plenty of people get laid with < $30 pairs of Jean's, so you're basically an idiot who spends money on shit that doesn't matter if you're not going to be featured on an episode of Jersey Shore.

Ic3Bullet posted...

Plenty of people get laid with < $30 pairs of Jean's, so you're basically an idiot who spends money on shit that doesn't matter if you're not going to be featured on an episode of Jersey Shore.

lmao what a spicy and sad take

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Try not to spill anything on them

Why does he have to be trying to get laid by doing this? Maybe he just liked them and/or clothes in general?

Malfunction posted...

Why does he have to be trying to get laid by doing this? Maybe he just liked them and/or clothes in general?

Nobody buys clothes because they like them. The only purpose of buying non-work clothes is to get laid.

Ic3Bullet posted...

Nobody buys clothes because they like them. The only purpose of buying non-work clothes is to get laid.

Nvm I'm probly wrong and he bought a pair of $200+ Jean's to wear around the house that nobody will ever see.

Speak for your fucking self lol.

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Lol what

electricbugs2 posted...

Speak for your fucking self lol.

What makes you like the clothes you buy?

Ic3Bullet posted...

What makes you like the clothes you buy?

Quality and look mostly.

That said I do go out on the weekends, but I also wear my shit at home a lot too.

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electricbugs2 posted...

Quality and look mostly.

Things that you think make you look more attractive, I see. So far I'm still not wrong.

Ic3Bullet posted...

Things that you think make you look more attractive, I see. So far I'm still not wrong.

What about people in committed relationships who still enjoy wearing nice clothes in public lol

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Ic3Bullet posted...

Things that you think make you look more attractive

I mean sure, but that isn't what you said.

You said no one buys clothes because they like them, which is nonsense, and that people buy them to get laid, which I don't.

To flex? Yup. To fuck? I mean, if someones offering, but that isn't the purpose.

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scar the 1 posted...

But are they comfortable

Very

Ic3Bullet posted...

Plenty of people get laid with < $30 pairs of Jean's, so you're basically an idiot who spends money on shit that doesn't matter if you're not going to be featured on an episode of Jersey Shore.

There's so much wrong to unpack here I really don't quite know where to start

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This was a thing a couple years or 10 ago.

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Zurkon posted...

What kind were they? What fit? What color?

Some Acne Studios north stay black.

I checked for APC/nudie/naked and famous as those brands tend to be as good and a bit cheaper, but just couldn't find the pair that fit right.

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I never understood people being obsessed with fashion. Never.

Plus, the $200 jeans topic was funny. What year was that, anyway? 2009? 2008?

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Sunhawk posted...

I never understood people being obsessed with fashion. Never.

I never really understood your obsession with trolling GameFAQs either so eh

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Sunhawk posted...

I never understood people being obsessed with fashion. Never.

Plus, the $200 jeans topic was funny. What year was that, anyway? 2009? 2008?

I would argue that fashion is one of the few "hobbies" that everyone has to take part in to some degree, and is so important to human culture and history that thinking of it as a hobby seems incorrect to begin with. Eschewing fashion is also a fashion choice, annoyingly.

That said I don't expect anyone to give a fuck about expensive jeans, but then I don't tend to judge people for the expensive things they like to buy either.

I'm sure @Ic3Bullet has some nonsense he spends a lot of money on that is worth it to him but to others would seem a waste, like a hideously expensive graphics card or jacked up suspension for his car or whatever.

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I always liked the idea of having a nice pair of jeans, but mine inevitably seem to tear at the crotch so I've always been too anxious to go for it

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Acne are well regarded I think. Really have liked some of their sweatshirts and jumpers over the years but have never pulled the trigger

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The thing I did wrong ITT was call TC an idiot. TC has been pretty friendly with me in the past, so for that impulsiveness, I am in fact the idiot.

The thing I did that I'm still not convinced is wrong, is assume sex appeal is a large portion of the decision making that goes into spending money on clothes, and that you can achieve that desired effect for like one-eighth of the price mentioned in the topic title.

Ic3Bullet posted...

The thing I did wrong ITT was call TC an idiot. TC has been pretty friendly with me in the past, so for that impulsiveness, I am in fact the idiot.

The thing I did that I'm still not convinced is wrong, is assume sex appeal is a large portion of the decision making that goes into spending money on clothes, and that you can achieve that desired effect for like one-eighth of the price mentioned in the topic title.

Do you have me on ignore or something because I did a post

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Raw denim is fucking stupid

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I suppose if I paid more they would in theory be of better quality and hold up better, but I'm always climbing around in rafters and doing weird things at work and tearing my jeans, so I just get the cheapest Walmart has to offer.

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Ic3Bullet posted...

The thing I did wrong ITT was call TC an idiot. TC has been pretty friendly with me in the past, so for that impulsiveness, I am in fact the idiot.

The thing I did that I'm still not convinced is wrong, is assume sex appeal is a large portion of the decision making that goes into spending money on clothes, and that you can achieve that desired effect for like one-eighth of the price mentioned in the topic title.

You can go down to the high street fast fashion retailers like H&M or Topshop or Zara and basically can't fail at finding an outfit that will make you look attractive and inoffensive and not untrendy. If getting laid is your goal, that's how you should do it. It's cost effective and very easy to look reasonably sharp. For $220 I could probably buy 2 or 3 entire outfits from one of those stores.

Better yet, spend your money on the gym.

If you like fashion though, this is pretty limiting because all those shops have are the same things that everyone else is wearing. You might feel the clothes don't represent you or what you want to portray. You'll start looking for clothes that have little perceivable details that matter to you but no one else is ever likely to see. And at the base price point there are so few of those kinds of clothes, so you just end up spending more for something more original.

All this said, it's not like these jeans are super unique or anything. They're fairly ubiquitous. But for what I wanted to get they're about as cheap as I could find without going on sale. That includes the little details that matter to me that honestly don't matter to anyone else and don't matter in the grand scheme of things.

I think people to argue that if you pay more for clothes you'll get something more durable or of higher quality, but I generally don't think that's the case. For the most part, you're just getting something that's a bit more original and has more of the features you were looking for that you couldn't find for less.


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I bought a pair of $850 jeans lol. Got you beat

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The Top Crusader posted...

I suppose if I paid more they would in theory be of better quality and hold up better, but I'm always climbing around in rafters and doing weird things at work and tearing my jeans, so I just get the cheapest Walmart has to offer.

The "pay more and you get better quality" only really holds up to a very base price point, to be honest. Sure, $50 jeans are likely to be of a higher durability to $20, but the returns continue to vastly diminish from there. It's not like $2000 jeans are made of adamantium. In fact they're probably far more fragile and the cost has gone into the designing, not the build quality.

There are a couple of stitching techniques which can take more time and some better materials that add cost, but generally it's not about that. I think for what you're doing cheap jeans is absolutely the way to go. No fucking way I would pay $200 for jeans I planned to do some concreting in.

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SF_Okami posted...

I bought a pair of $850 jeans lol. Got you beat

What were they?

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pinky0926 posted...

What were they?

Off-White. Got them at Kith. Seriously the most comfy jeans I ever bought

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Damnit, pinky!
You were supposed to give the price in pounds, so I could say "Those are some heavy jeans!"

https://i.imgur.com/M8tXDYb.mp4

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pinky0926 posted...

The "pay more and you get better quality" only really holds up to a very base price point, to be honest. Sure, $50 jeans are likely to be of a higher durability to $20, but the returns continue to vastly diminish from there. It's not like $2000 jeans are made of adamantium. In fact they're probably far more fragile and the cost has gone into the designing, not the build quality.

There are a couple of stitching techniques which can take more time and some better materials that add cost, but generally it's not about that. I think for what you're doing cheap jeans is absolutely the way to go. No fucking way I would pay $200 for jeans I planned to do some concreting in.

Yeah generally this varies a lot with the types of clothing (obviously). Let's say you're buying an outdoors jacket meant for hiking etc. There you can expect higher price -> better durability/warranty etc. To a point, of course. A brand with a lot of prestige like Fjllrven will still be more expensive because you're paying for the brand/design and not just the durability.

People just really don't take a second to think about what "quality" actually means, because it very obviously means different things depending on the context. A suit or a pair of jeans of high quality aren't comparable to, say, hiking clothes of high quality, because the quality that you want in those items are different things. While I might want, IDK, a light fabric with certain visual qualities that breathes and stuff for a suit, for a hiking jacket I probably want something that isolates and doesn't tear. It's a very basic concept that you need to define quality before you start comparing things, but so many people just completely ignore that.

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scar the 1 posted...

Yeah generally this varies a lot with the types of clothing (obviously). Let's say you're buying an outdoors jacket meant for hiking etc. There you can expect higher price -> better durability/warranty etc. To a point, of course. A brand with a lot of prestige like Fjllrven will still be more expensive because you're paying for the brand/design and not just the durability.

People just really don't take a second to think about what "quality" actually means, because it very obviously means different things depending on the context. A suit or a pair of jeans of high quality aren't comparable to, say, hiking clothes of high quality, because the quality that you want in those items are different things. While I might want, IDK, a light fabric with certain visual qualities that breathes and stuff for a suit, for a hiking jacket I probably want something that isolates and doesn't tear. It's a very basic concept that you need to define quality before you start comparing things, but so many people just completely ignore that.

I saw an interesting post on MFA where a guy broke down his 90 Our Legacy sweater and you realise that by any objective factor it's of inferior "quality" to what you could get at Uniqlo for 15. The critical thing is that Uniqlo doesn't sell anything like his sweater, which is really all it ever comes down to for most things.

See if I can find it...

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scar the 1 posted...

Do you have me on ignore or something because I did a post

Committed relationships, right?

I've corrected myself and am now saying "sex appeal" instead of getting laid. Even people who are 99% positive they've found the person they want to spend the rest of their life with want to be perceived as attractive to the general public. If not, their partner still needs to be reminded that they got someone who is a snack, and will take time and effort to replace. If not, the person in question needs to retain a certain level of presentability so that his or her partner can feel proud to go in public with them. At least one of these things must needs be true for any self-aware person in a relationship.

As far as what clothing attributes to sex appeal, you start getting diminishing returns after spending a certain amount. In fact, I'll go as far as saying that the only reason to spend more than $80 on a pair of jeans is if you're hoping someone will ask you how much they cost someday.

can't wait until you downgrade it further to 'looking and feeling good'

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Ic3Bullet posted...

Committed relationships, right?

I've corrected myself and am now saying "sex appeal" instead of getting laid. Even people who are 99% positive they've found the person they want to spend the rest of their life with want to be perceived as attractive to the general public. If not, their partner still needs to be reminded that they got someone who is a snack, and will take time and effort to replace. If not, the person in question needs to retain a certain level of presentability so that his or her partner can feel proud to go in public with them. At least one of these things must needs be true for any self-aware person in a relationship.

As far as what clothing attributes to sex appeal, you start getting diminishing returns after spending a certain amount. In fact, I'll go as far as saying that the only reason to spend more than $80 on a pair of jeans is if you're hoping someone will ask you how much they cost someday.

I don't think I would agree with that. I have this effortlessly stylish looking friend who somehow looks like he just rolled out of bed and is about to go down a catwalk at the same time. Whenever I ask him where he got his clothes, it's some niche London boutique where the sweaters start at 150 and the jeans at 300. His outfits don't look any fancier than mine, they just look...nicer. Softer, richer, more interesting, sophisticated, etc.

I'm not suggesting that therefore price = quality. I'm just suggesting that there's no way in hell I could find those pieces for H&M prices unless I got insanely lucky at a thrift store.

Let me pin it to you another way, then. Do you think the trendy art chicks I am attracted to would ever fuck a guy who looks like he shops at the GAP?

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I think it's worth considering that 'quality' also includes things like the cut and shape of an item of clothing and isn't necessarily all tied up in a vague idea of resilience.

There's definitely gradually diminishing returns as you climb up the price ladder but you're still paying for a 'better' item at the end of the day

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NinjaBreakfast posted...

I think it's worth considering that 'quality' also includes things like the cut and shape of an item of clothing and isn't necessarily all tied up in a vague idea of resilience.

There's definitely gradually diminishing returns as you climb up the price ladder but you're still paying for a 'better' item at the end of the day

I found the reddit post I was talking about. It sums this up well:

https://www.reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice/comments/4n3uhx/how_do_you_tell_when_youre_spending_more_for/d40sr5q/

"Now I definitely get that more expensive clothes can definitely be cheaper in the long term."
This basically never happens.
The truth of the matter is that durability is really quite a minor part of "quality"; most cheap garments will last a very long time before they start physically falling apart.
On the other hand, factors like how the garment drapes, what texture it has, what material it's made of, any interesting details, the hardware used, and the design and fit all have a much greater effect on your experience of owning/using/wearing it. Luckily, all of these can easily be observed just by picking the item up and trying it on.
Of course, you don't really get "better texture" or "better drape" and certainly not "better fit" in any objective sense. Even "better material" doesn't really make sense, once you're spending enough to avoid shitty polyesters and acrylics. The point is that if you're looking for an interesting texture or drape or whatever, your options are limited by how much you're willing to spend.
Take this sweater (http://i.imgur.com/4tvq96m.jpg) of mine from Our Legacy. It cost me about 130, on sale. Its composition is 80/20 wool/nylon. Not cashmere or alpaca or whatever - just wool. Uniqlo sell wool sweaters too, for more like 30; a fraction of what this one cost. My sweater certainly isn't any more durable than a Uniqlo one; if anything it's more fragile, not to mention harder to care for, due to its fluffy texture and open knit.
But it looks cool. And it feels great. And, critically, Uniqlo doesn't sell anything like it. Indeed, I'd assume that nobody at Uniqlo's pricepoint offers anything similar. There's no defining trait of "quality" that makes this sweater worth it; it's just that if I want the whole package that it offers, I need to pay for it.
As a general rule, if you pick up an expensive garment and don't notice anything special or great about it compared to a cheaper alternative, it's not worth it - to you. Other people might be attracted to details that you missed or simply don't care about, and for those people the item might be worth the extra cost; but that doesn't mean the same necessarily applies to you.
On the other hand, if you like something and it's expensive, and there isn't a cheaper alternative that you like is much, then it's pointless worrying about whether the item is "worth its price" based on what it's made of or how much it cost to produce or whatever; the only variable you need to consider is whether you want the item enough to spend the extra money on it.

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Ic3Bullet posted...

Committed relationships, right?

I've corrected myself and am now saying "sex appeal" instead of getting laid. Even people who are 99% positive they've found the person they want to spend the rest of their life with want to be perceived as attractive to the general public. If not, their partner still needs to be reminded that they got someone who is a snack, and will take time and effort to replace. If not, the person in question needs to retain a certain level of presentability so that his or her partner can feel proud to go in public with them. At least one of these things must needs be true for any self-aware person in a relationship.

As far as what clothing attributes to sex appeal, you start getting diminishing returns after spending a certain amount. In fact, I'll go as far as saying that the only reason to spend more than $80 on a pair of jeans is if you're hoping someone will ask you how much they cost someday.

Alright why don't you iterate on it some more so you can revise "sex appeal" to "look good" and conclude that people wear clothes because they wanna like the way they look.

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i wouldnt waste that much for a fucking pair of jeans but good on you i guess... *shrugs*