How much do you spend on clothes for yourself and your family per year?

moneyistooshorttomention

Knit_Witch wrote: »

I got a cloak tailor made, sleeveless but with a half cape over the top (I wasn't able to wear coats because of crutches!)
http://id3430.securedata.net/cloaksofireland/Highwayman.htm

That one wouldnt do for me - but I've had a quick look at some of the others and I'm lusting after them....

Shame about their badly-done website - but some of those cloaks are rather nice. Fingers crossed they'll re-do the website to be modern-looking/fully workable and put the price in £s as well as euros and dollars.

I can follow the reasoning re spending more money if "conventionally styled" clothes don't "work" for some reason or other. I know my feet aren't very happy with a lot of conventionally styled footwear and now that wide width footwear is being called "standard width" (at least by Clarks), then I'm just resigned to the fact of "I have to spend what I have to spend on footwear" (as most Clarks footwear is now too wide for "standard width feet" me).

Yep...footwear that is "healthy/comfortable style" and still stylish isn't cheap. I'm not going to say just how much over £100 a pair of shoes I've just bought was.....but they are very comfortable and still have some "style" - so it is what it is imo. Other people spend their money on cars/holidays/etc that I don't - so....

Nargleblast

I agree you have to spend whatever is necessary for footwear that fits well and is comfortable, and a well-made pair of shoes should last for years. It is the obsession some folk have with designer labels that I find baffling, especially since many of the desired items are made using workers who are paid a pittance for the job.

Hard_Up_Hester

I spend more on shoes than anything else, I buy sketchers as they are safest on the boat, but what with the amount of walking I do plus the frequent soakings they get they only last 6 months or so.

monnagran

As I've said before, my feet were designed for herring boxes without topses and I find that whether I buy expensive or cheap they mostly wear out in about the same time. I find certain styles in Footgloves comfortable and some of Cottontraders are OK once I've beaten them into submission.
The most comfortable and stylish shoes I possess came from a CS and cost me a fiver. They are still comfortable and good looking after 6 years wear and are the only shoes I have ever worn that have won compliments.
I will never see their like again.

Another pair that I liked, also picked up for a song in my favourite shop, were equally nice to wear but met an unfortunate end in the jaws of my DILs Dalmatian puppy. Well, one of them did, I've kept the other one for sentimental reasons. I really must discard it, even though it still gives me sparks of joy

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My shoes cost £36.99p and they are VERY comfortable!

moneyistooshorttomention

Envy at being able to spend £37 on shoes and get comfortable ones.

The cheapest I've been able to buy recently were £60. Fingers crossed I'm sorted for footwear for some years now - just might need a pair of stylish black more "court" shoe type shoes. I just hit the ground when I found some online - and then checked the price out_pale_

Though I do think we all need to do a little calculation in our heads of prices we deemed perfectly "ordinary" to pay for clothes back, say, 30 years ago and then add 30 years of inflation on to see what price the exact same clothes would cost now (ie the exact same quality). I remember buying a Marks & Spencer (ie not expensive then) blazer back in the 1980s and vaguely recall it must have cost around £70/£80. I only got rid of it because it had 1980s shoulderpads - and it wasnt showing a trace of wear. Similar blazers I spotted in M & S recently were around the £30 mark all these years later - and one could take one quick look from the other side of the room and see that the material and cut were both rubbish. Not interested in "fast fashion" as it's called. I bought a cheapie teeshirt , for instance, the other day to do me whilst I'm waiting to lose the rest of the weight I'm in the process of losing - £5 in a sale. It had only had a couple of wears and not even been washed yet - and it already looked "worn/needs replacing" !!

Nargleblast

Shame you didn't keep the blazer and just remove the shoulder pads, it would have done you a few more years, being quality stuff.

Hard_Up_Hester

Viva la Diva court shoes, wide fitting, with heels and still very comfortable, I've had my pair for 8 years now.

FBO, there is nothing nicer than a man in a kilt. Many years ago I had a friend who wore one to a particular type of social event, he wore it the traditional way, he also had a selection of piercings, so he tinkled as he walked.

monnagran

Hester you have the enviable gift of painting an irresistible picture.

moneyistooshorttomention

Hard_Up_Hester wrote: »

FBO, there is nothing nicer than a man in a kilt. Many years ago I had a friend who wore one to a particular type of social event, he wore it the traditional way, he also had a selection of piercings, so he tinkled as he walked.

I'm going to try not to think about exactly where those piercings might have been:eek: - might put me off my breakfast:rotfl: