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streetminimal said:

what on earth happened to hespokeshepoke?

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LonerMatt said:

Things neither fit the way I want them to, nor do items I like make much sense together.

Getting closer, but it's a lot of effort, plenty of frustration and one of those things that I feel would go away if I threw money at it (Which I'm disinclined to do because it's lazy).

I think I'm getting SWD done right a lot more though.

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Henry Carter said:

Yeah ok interesting. Something that might help, and without seeing your wardrobe it may not be applicable to you at all but I see time and time again on SF, many people not keeping it simple and not buying stuff that gels with other stuff and get far too wrapped up in buying this or that brand, even though it's not right for them. In short, it means buy more boring stuff that is stylish and fits well that goes with more other stuff, and that's not a bad thing at all.

By that I mean as an example -

Don't buy the olive green tweed trousers on sale for $100, buy the much more versatile grey flannels that you can wear with everything for $160.

Don't buy the light tan Lobbs on ebay because they are cheap, buy the dark brown loake oxfords that you can wear with everything. They are cheap because nobody will buy them.

Don't buy the Kiton blazer in salmon pink off shop the finest because it's on sale for $700, spend the $700 on a basic, perfect navy fresco blazer.

You prob get what I'm saying by now. More basics, less once a month wear items. Those can be added later when the basics are well and truly covered.

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Henry Carter said:

Yeah ok interesting. Something that might help, and without seeing your wardrobe it may not be applicable to you at all but I see time and time again on SF, many people not keeping it simple and not buying stuff that gels with other stuff and get far too wrapped up in buying this or that brand, even though it's not right for them. In short, it means buy more boring stuff that is stylish and fits well that goes with more other stuff, and that's not a bad thing at all.

By that I mean as an example -

Don't buy the olive green tweed trousers on sale for $100, buy the much more versatile grey flannels that you can wear with everything for $160.

Don't buy the light tan Lobbs on ebay because they are cheap, buy the dark brown loake oxfords that you can wear with everything. They are cheap because nobody will buy them.

Don't buy the Kiton blazer in salmon pink off shop the finest because it's on sale for $700, spend the $700 on a basic, perfect navy fresco blazer.

You prob get what I'm saying by now. More basics, less once a month wear items. Those can be added later when the basics are well and truly covered.

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Romp said:

Where do I get this kiton salmon jacket? =)

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fxh said:

One of Melbourne's best-known fashion designers has launched a scathing attack on Melbourne's retail landscape, describing store rents as ''exorbitant'' and likening the conservative business dress to a ghost town.

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

In this month's issue of fashion industry magazine Ragtrader, embattled designer Bettina Liano, who has just opened her first international store in New York, said Melbourne's high city rents were emptying our fashion lanes of everything but ''tumbleweeds''. Liano said she has turned her back on Melbourne for the Big Apple where rents are more affordable and there are ''actual people''.

''What I was paying for the Little Collins Street store was exorbitant,'' she told Ragtrader. ''It cost me over $20,000 a month but this store in SoHo is less than $10,000 a month. And there are people here. In Little Collins Street, there's no traffic, it's tumbleweeds.''

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/b...heaper-rent-20130320-2gg22.html#ixzz2O5EUdbVW

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Henry Carter said:

X-post

As a bit of a teaser as to what you can expect at the trunk show apart from my ties, Gerry has very kindly taken some photo's of some of the items Ludlows will have on special. Which is 30% off both Fox umbrella's and Geo F Trumper products. Kent clothes brushes will also be on special on the night. As you can see there is a great range of both in-store.

Anyway, a picture says a thousand words -

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fxh said:

One of Melbourne's best-known fashion designers has launched a scathing attack on Melbourne's retail landscape, describing store rents as ''exorbitant'' and likening the conservative business dress to a ghost town.

In this month's issue of fashion industry magazine Ragtrader, embattled designer Bettina Liano, who has just opened her first international store in New York, said Melbourne's high city rents were emptying our fashion lanes of everything but ''tumbleweeds''. Liano said she has turned her back on Melbourne for the Big Apple where rents are more affordable and there are ''actual people''.

''What I was paying for the Little Collins Street store was exorbitant,'' she told Ragtrader. ''It cost me over $20,000 a month but this store in SoHo is less than $10,000 a month. And there are people here. In Little Collins Street, there's no traffic, it's tumbleweeds.''

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/b...heaper-rent-20130320-2gg22.html#ixzz2O5EUdbVW

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fxh said:

One of Melbourne's best-known fashion designers has launched a scathing attack on Melbourne's retail landscape, describing store rents as ''exorbitant'' and likening the conservative business dress to a ghost town.

In this month's issue of fashion industry magazine Ragtrader, embattled designer Bettina Liano, who has just opened her first international store in New York, said Melbourne's high city rents were emptying our fashion lanes of everything but ''tumbleweeds''. Liano said she has turned her back on Melbourne for the Big Apple where rents are more affordable and there are ''actual people''.

''What I was paying for the Little Collins Street store was exorbitant,'' she told Ragtrader. ''It cost me over $20,000 a month but this store in SoHo is less than $10,000 a month. And there are people here. In Little Collins Street, there's no traffic, it's tumbleweeds.''

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/b...heaper-rent-20130320-2gg22.html#ixzz2O5EUdbVW

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Henry Carter said:

How's this Borelli bargain - $549. It's a steal

http://www.shopthefinest.com/p-19705-borrelli-pink-sportcoat-size-40-us-50-eu-sale-.aspx

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Journeyman said:

Entirely agree, and it's the same in Brisbane. A place with frontage on to the Queen St Mall costs over $10 000 per sq metre (and I've heard that in some of the newly-built or newly-renovated places, it can be almost double that amount). That's about the same as you will pay for space in central London or Tokyo - but we're talking about Brisbane!

Seriously, retail rental prices just seem ludicrously inflated and, of course, that pushes up the prices that stores charge as they have to cover their massive rental bills before they can actually start to make a profit.

I suppose that one reason that prices are so inflated in Brisbane, at least, is that the city has a very compact, centralised conservative business dress and so there is a limited amount of high-end retail space, whereas in Tokyo, for example, stores can look at a wide variety of areas including Ginza, Shinjuku, Aoyama, Harajuku, Shibuya and other places depending on the demographic they are targeting and the budget that they have.

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Gerry Nelson said:

Does that mean she's now making more of a profit, charging less or both?

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