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Re: Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year

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Post by dragonsky »

hhmc wrote: post #27
Jaruzel wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in the following: - 2 pairs of jeans, on rotate - About 20 t-shirts - 20-ish sets of underwear + socks - About 3-4 sweaters/jumpers/hoodies - 1 pair of boots - 1 pair of worn out trainers That's basically it. Some of my t-shirts are over 15 years old, in fact 99% of what I wear is over 3 years old. Spending over $500 in a year on clothing is totally alien to me! Einstein had it right: "Albert Einstein reported…

> Spending over $500 in a year on clothing is totally alien to me! If you care about ethical production it's difficult to spend less. > "Albert Einstein reportedly bought several variations of the same grey suit so that he wouldn't have to waste time deciding what to wear each morning." This sounds incredibly joyless -- the aesthetic equivalent of eating huel for every meal.

One of the only things I used to love about having to wear a uniform was the lack of attention needed to spend deciding what to wear each day.

You may like clothing, playing with what you wear may give you joy, but for some having to find clothes they feel comfortable wearing, then having each day to select something to wear, ensuring that they meet some criteria that will avoid negative perception from their community is nothing short of hell.

When I find something that fits well, is comfortable and reasonably inexpensive, I purchase a bunch of them and wear them daily for the next couple of years.

Re: Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year

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Post by dragonsky »

prvit wrote: post #98
casion wrote: post #30

> Current Wardrobe Value: $3,907.65 I don't have any friends (and I'm happy with this), so I have no reference: do people normally really spend this much on clothing!? My entire wardrobe is worth around $150, and that's 70% socks.

I have many individual pieces of clothing worth more than that. Nice cashmere is expensive, but soooo soft. A basic sweater from Loro Piana can easily run a few k, but is absolutely worth the price. Sky is the limit when it comes to outerwear, I’ve paid around $15k for a nice fur-lined coat. Worth it? Depends on the weather, sometimes I have doubts, but then the winter comes.

I find it amazing that anybody could spend the value of a small car on a piece of clothing.

If you think historically, this is in the range of cost that a knight would have spent on his armour, so more in the range of the utility of a main battle tank in modern terms.

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Post by 2muchcoffeeman »

rmk wrote: post #104
casion wrote: post #30

> Current Wardrobe Value: $3,907.65 I don't have any friends (and I'm happy with this), so I have no reference: do people normally really spend this much on clothing!? My entire wardrobe is worth around $150, and that's 70% socks.

Let me get this straight: You own $150 worth of clothes, and $105 of it comprises socks (I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that they are the white, crew kind?). With $45 worth of 'clothes', I'm assuming you have boxers and such, which probably take up another $30. Do you even wear anything other than boxer, undershirt, and socks? I mean, unless your comment is pure hyperbole, I am having a difficult time visualizi…

Even if you’re super charitable and assume they live in a climate that is warm/tropical all year round, and they can get the basics at Kmart or thrift stores (not knocking Kmart, I will buy certain items from there if I think the quality is sufficiently good) this is hard to compute.

Re: Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year

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Post by vasco »

prvit wrote: post #98
casion wrote: post #30

> Current Wardrobe Value: $3,907.65 I don't have any friends (and I'm happy with this), so I have no reference: do people normally really spend this much on clothing!? My entire wardrobe is worth around $150, and that's 70% socks.

I have many individual pieces of clothing worth more than that. Nice cashmere is expensive, but soooo soft. A basic sweater from Loro Piana can easily run a few k, but is absolutely worth the price. Sky is the limit when it comes to outerwear, I’ve paid around $15k for a nice fur-lined coat. Worth it? Depends on the weather, sometimes I have doubts, but then the winter comes.

$15k is not worth it for any piece of clothing, at this price point you're just signaling.

Re: Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year

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Post by prvit »

vasco wrote: post #124
prvit wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have many individual pieces of clothing worth more than that. Nice cashmere is expensive, but soooo soft. A basic sweater from Loro Piana can easily run a few k, but is absolutely worth the price. Sky is the limit when it comes to outerwear, I’ve paid around $15k for a nice fur-lined coat. Worth it? Depends on the weather, sometimes I have doubts, but then the winter comes.

$15k is not worth it for any piece of clothing, at this price point you're just signaling.

It’s the most comfortable garment I’ve ever touched, every moment wearing it is pure bliss. The fur is hardly visible to the outside, so little signaling value.

Re: Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year

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Post by yosito »

laserlight wrote: post #86
yosito wrote: post #84

This seems to me like a case of premature (or unnecessary) optimization. If one really wants to optimize their wardrobe, following a more Steve Jobs-like approach, and reducing the number of garments owned is the way to go. Due to my carry-on-only lifestyle I own ~ one week of warm weather clothing, combined with a few warmer layers that I wear in colder weather. I wear almost the same thing every week, and I wear it…

Can you expand on highly technical clothing? I don’t know what technologies are there in clothing, but I’m very interested in trying them.

By technical clothing, I basically mean layers with carefully chosen materials. Merino wool underlayers, outer layers appropriate for the activity: rain jacket, fleece, spandex.

Re: Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year

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Post by vasco »

prvit wrote: post #125
vasco wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$15k is not worth it for any piece of clothing, at this price point you're just signaling.

It’s the most comfortable garment I’ve ever touched, every moment wearing it is pure bliss. The fur is hardly visible to the outside, so little signaling value.

You're signaling right here, and I bet you've mentioned this before. It's not a problem, people do all kinds of things for signaling, but I hope you're not genuinely convinced you can't find similar bliss for an order of magnitude less than what you paid. That being said, do you have a link to see it?

Re: Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year

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Post by dwd »

indentit wrote: post #58
casion wrote: post #30

> Current Wardrobe Value: $3,907.65 I don't have any friends (and I'm happy with this), so I have no reference: do people normally really spend this much on clothing!? My entire wardrobe is worth around $150, and that's 70% socks.

In my experience, socks are pretty expensive (at least here in Lithuania) and wear out pretty fast, so for me its reasonable to spend most of the clothing budget on socks...

Holeproof Explorer socks (wool inner, nylon outer) seem to last forever.

I have a few pairs that predate having kids (so 20+ years) and they are still wearable.

Re: Tracking Everything I Wore For 1 Year

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Post by prvit »

vasco wrote: post #127
prvit wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s the most comfortable garment I’ve ever touched, every moment wearing it is pure bliss. The fur is hardly visible to the outside, so little signaling value.

You're signaling right here, and I bet you've mentioned this before. It's not a problem, people do all kinds of things for signaling, but I hope you're not genuinely convinced you can't find similar bliss for an order of magnitude less than what you paid. That being said, do you have a link to see it?

> I hope you're not genuinely convinced you can't find similar bliss for an order of magnitude less than what you paid

I’ve got extensive experience commissioning various garments in workshops around the world, buying furs from auctions and hunting around the world for fine fabrics.

An order of magnitude simply isn’t realistic, you could create something similar for 33-50% of the money if you were willing to accept a cheaper exterior fabric and a lesser grade of fur. Keep in mind that regardless of materials a well crafted coat will tend to cost a few thousand euros, fur lining requires significantly more work.

If you were to just walk up to a decent tailor and ask for a quote, it’s unlikely they’d give you a number below 10000 euros.

> That being said, do you have a link to see it?

Similar to this one, from a past collection https://it.loropiana.com/en/p/man/coats-and-trench/winter-vo...

Little signaling value outside of anonymous internet conversations, visually indistinguishable from the significantly cheaper (5k) cashmere version without fur, except for the colorway that some sales rep or a true enthusiast might recognize.

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