Buyer beware: One luxury item can spark shopping spree

[Metlin]

Originally Posted by RSS

What about a guy with an expensive watch, expensive shoes, rp speech, and good grammar?
Clearly, he's either my grandpa's age or deranged. I kid, I kid.

 

[RSS]

Originally Posted by Metlin

Clearly, he's either my grandpa's age or deranged. I kid, I kid.
You may be correct in my case.

 

[patrickBOOTH]

Originally Posted by mr monty

If you have no idea, how did you come up with $3K? There are $3K+ bags, but most bags sold are around $1K or less. It's a very good chance the bags you saw were fake

If they were fake then that is even worse.

My LV briefcase was about $2,400 and it isn't as large as some of these girl's bags.

 

[The Thin Man]

Originally Posted by RSS

Ah yes. He has often been my avatar. Below is my favorite shot.

The best Style Forum threads should be read in lockjaw.

 

[Metlin]

Originally Posted by RSS

You may be correct in my case.

On a more serious note, however, the only thing that would probably give you away is the RP speech.

It tends to be a tad anachronistic, especially in the States.

 

[JesseJB]

Reading this thread makes me want to buy something.

 

[Threadbearer]

Originally Posted by JayJay

This phenomenon is called the Diderot Effect, and is not new. It was first characterized in an essay by Diderot regarding receiving a new dressing gown as a gift, and how the gift lead to him replacing his entire office.
Scholarly.

I like it!

Originally Posted by The Thin Man

The best Style Forum threads should be read in lockjaw.
Abshuloutley, ducky.

 

[Jarandas]

Originally Posted by musicguy

Yup... it all started with my first nice suit. I quickly realized I needed better shoes, better shirts, better ties... *******'s neverending!

Originally Posted by Jay

So true. I've been working on replacing most of my wardrobe after discovering SF.

Same here, replaced most of my wardrobe, watches, shoes ... somebody should check if SF is sending some kind of encripted subliminal message ...

 

[Pantisocrat]

The desire to match is a damning desire, for all sorts of things not just for clothes and accessories. If you look at black guys, even the dandy ones, they don't give a flying hoove if it's pinstripe trousers with Campbell clan jacket and purple socks. Conventions, esp. English ones, are so dam boring as it's dictated by a group of people resistant to change, which is the reason they're still around, because the wind of change blew through Oct. 1917.

 

[TC (Houston)]

Originally Posted by JesseJB

Reading this thread makes me want to buy something.

Yeah I think I'm going tv shopping today.

 

[JayJay]

Originally Posted by Pantisocrat

The desire to match is a damning desire, for all sorts of things not just for clothes and accessories. If you look at black guys, even the dandy ones, they don't give a flying hoove if it's pinstripe trousers with Campbell clan jacket and purple socks. Conventions, esp. English ones, are so dam boring as it's dictated by a group of people resistant to change, which is the reason they're still around, because the wind of change blew through Oct. 1917.

 

[Metlin]

Originally Posted by Pantisocrat

The desire to match is a damning desire, for all sorts of things not just for clothes and accessories. If you look at black guys, even the dandy ones, they don't give a flying hoove if it's pinstripe trousers with Campbell clan jacket and purple socks. Conventions, esp. English ones, are so dam boring as it's dictated by a group of people resistant to change, which is the reason they're still around, because the wind of change blew through Oct. 1917.

Yes, and most of the people who dress like this also look like absolute idiots. Just because you put a bunch of unmatched things together does not mean they actually work well as an ensemble.

The same could be said of some Italian dudes as well -- or for that matter, anywhere -- just look for the ones that are dressed like morons.

 

[FidelCashflow]

I can attest to this research. I hadn't logged into SF for a few months and started to think "well, I just don't care about clothes anymore - so much for that phase" until one day I got a $100 off certificate for a local store in the mail. It started with a pair of pants and led to a $3500 month long clothing bender

 

[MTLGuy]

Originally Posted by TC (Houston)

Every once in a while I take a step back and realize that our consumption (meaning that of my wife and I) has gotten completely ridiculous. At what point did we start expecting to have only the very best of everything?

The problem is not splurging on a luxurious item here and there, as in, you see something in a store that is nice but more than you planned to spend, but you buy it anyway. The problem is the quick and easy access to expert resources and research for virtually anything you are thinking about acquiring. A mild case of OCD coupled with financial resources and internet access is a veritable disaster. Most of us probably stumbled upon SF looking for information on some mundane item of clothing. Fifteen minutes later you decide those items are total shite, and two years later you have a $XXk wardrobe. WTF?!

The only solution is to be an ignorant consumer. I haven't bought a TV is about 4-5 years. I suspect the technology and picture quality is light years ahead of the stuff we have in our house, but I wouldn't know because I refuse to look into it.

+1

Couldn't have said it better myself.