Buying Clothes

PostRe: Buying Clothes by **Green Gecko** » Sat Jul 29, 2023 4:34 pm

kerr9000 wrote:
Green Gecko wrote:
ITSMILNER wrote:I've been buying most of my tee's from Superdry, they usually do 3 for £50 on plain but nice coloured t-shirts and are really good quality. I've had some of them for years and they still come out of the wash looking great, nice fit's as well.

Jeans, I tend to go for Levi's as they last you years as well.

Trainers, i've been rocking different styles of Sketchers, super comfy and hard wearing.

If anyone seriously needs good quality blank T-shirts, contact me.

They're about £4.50 including VAT at wholesale or as low as around £2.20. That's a £36.50 / 370% mark-up from Superdry even on a bundle deal and I'm assuming a bit of embroidery or a screen print that's pulled and cured in under 20 seconds. I strongly suspect their actual direct cost for the T-shirt is closer to the £2 or lower depending on what factory they contract and how they protect their workers (they don't). Bought individually, well, there you go.

I'll just neck label them with GRCADE if you want the added value.

Or if you find some monochrome SVG file on the internet and can pay a few quid then fine go with that. Or send the money straight to a giant conglomerate that's basically burning the earth alive.

The (white British, not Japanese) founders of Superdry have a combined equity of 450 million and in 2019 Superdry had almost 1 billion pounds in revenue in that year alone.

I'm currently dieting as hard as I can right now, been on a diet 8 days and as my Misses is on a special medical diet for another 11 weeks I'm going to aim to continue dieting for an equal length of time, if it goes well I might contact you about this when all my stuff's baggy.

I know money is tight almost precisely because margins are inflated, so for my dudes and GR fam I will supply authentic GRCADE* street/casualwear plus stocking/logistics & shipping to cover my time (since I am meant to be spending it on paying bills not subsiding others and it does kind of take ages to process these things).

*literally blank with a pointless label on it to avoid breach of contract / blank supply restrictions

I already printed about 100 labels for no other reason than to eventually put something together and use up space on a Direct to Film process.

PostRe: Buying Clothes by **Green Gecko** » Sat Jul 29, 2023 4:37 pm

Octoroc wrote:
Zilnad wrote:Returning it all. Absolute gooseberry fool show. Nothing fits right even though it's all the same sizes as my other clothes.

Maybe your other clothes have stretched a bit? They do that to trick you into thinking you aren't getting old.

Anyway, I only ever buy T-shirts online because I know if something didn't fit me, I probably wouldn't send it back and feel bad about it.

I take my eldest daughter clothes shopping with me, she actually likes shopping so it's good support.

Tbh I'm the same. I have trousers that range from 30 to 36 inches that fit exactly the same, bloody piss take that is. Plus leg length, crotch etc.

I was happy with some workwear chinos I got cheap from Result though. I'm wearing them now. The sizing was accurate just needed to turn up the leg which is typically always the case with trousers anyway. Unless you're a hipster, skinny and short.

T-shirts on the other hand, I can fit small, medium, and large;- doesn't really matter especially with the oversize trend at the minute, and if I'm in good nick then a small shirt is just fitted.

PostRe: Buying Clothes by **kerr9000** » Tue Aug 01, 2023 6:04 pm

This is my latest pick up clothing wise.... lost 11pounds in a week dieting so figured why not treat myself to something clothing related.

PostRe: Buying Clothes by **poshrule_uk** » Tue Aug 01, 2023 7:05 pm

Zilnad wrote:Returning it all. Absolute gooseberry fool show. Nothing fits right even though it's all the same sizes as my other clothes.

Every shop has different sizing so what may be a small in one shop is medium in another. I vary between small and extra small depending on the shop.

Also a lot of them do vanity sizing.

PostRe: Buying Clothes by **Zilnad** » Tue Aug 01, 2023 7:32 pm

But how can 34" not be 34". It defies the universe!!!!

PostRe: Buying Clothes by **Grumpy David** » Tue Aug 01, 2023 7:52 pm

Zilnad wrote:But how can 34" not be 34". It defies the universe!!!!

Sometimes a 7 is better than an 8.

PostRe: Buying Clothes by **poshrule_uk** » Tue Aug 01, 2023 8:12 pm

Yeah it's gooseberry fool.

It's why I generally buy stuff in shops but it's getting harder to do this

PostRe: Buying Clothes by **Vermilion** » Wed Aug 02, 2023 1:50 pm

Zilnad wrote:But how can 34" not be 34". It defies the universe!!!!

This is why i generally go to proper clothes shops and try the stuff on first.

PostRe: Buying Clothes by **Knoyleo** » Wed Aug 02, 2023 2:24 pm

Zilnad wrote:But how can 34" not be 34". It defies the universe!!!!

Vanity sizing.

I wear a size 32 in most Levi's cuts, but measure the waistband and they're more like a 34".

PostRe: Buying Clothes by **Qikz** » Wed Aug 02, 2023 2:54 pm

Bought about £120 worth of this Airism stuff from Uniqlo Japan for about £40. Needed to order a size up but that should be enough to cover everything. I ended up having to pay nearly £40 in shipping but I still saved like £40 overall. Next time I won't be stupid and just buy it while I'm there but I didn't think of it at the time.

Got a bunch more T-Shirts, another nice parka and a Heattech turtleneck style longsleeve shirt which looks super comfy.

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