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Please don't pay $375 for Zegna. With a little patience you can get it at many us outlets for under $100
Please don't pay $375 for Zegna. With a little patience you can get it at many us outlets for under $100
I would LOVE to see that.
Is there ever a reasonable excuse for paying near $400 for a shirt?
Please don't pay $375 for Zegna. With a little patience you can get it at many us outlets for under $100
Why would "Because I want to" not be reasonable? Also, this statement is about as obtuse as saying "Is there ever a reasonable excuse for paying near $5000 for a suit?"
I do not know cost comparison to Zegna's OTR shirts as I am too humble to afford such luxuries.
It's not obtuse my friend. I'm talking about the people not in the small subset of very highly-paid money-merchants jousting with clothes - and you can be sure most of these do not have the time or inclination to fool about on the internet in a clothes forum.
Now you have the fun task of describing the difference between a reasonable excuse and a legitimate excuse, since you're splitting these hairs."Because I want to" is a legitimate reason from a personal perspective, if someone has more money than they know what to do with, but not reasonable.
Again, define normal in your context. Using what I would think of as normal, which does not violate your example as stated, if a normal man has saved the money to be able to buy a suit from huntsman without endangering his life or livelihood in the process, then the specifics of his personal purchases above and beyond that become arbitrary. What he spends his luxury money on is his own decision. Whether it is reasonable or not supposes knowledge as to why the purchase was made. Moreover, let's expand "Because I want to" into "Because I like it, in the process I am not causing harm to myself or my surroundings, and I feel that said purchase from huntsman will increase my personal quality of life as well as generally increasing my overall level of happiness." This is a perfectly sound judgement where there are no negatives and only positives to the purchase, which would make something perfectly reasonable to me.Among normal people, no there isn't in most cases any reasonable excuse for paying over the odds for a suit. If a rich man wants to pay for a Huntsman good for him, if someone is selling his soul to afford a Huntsman he probably has disorganised priorities.
Whether it ever happens or not is an entirely separate question from the one you initially raised. The likelihood of the man who saves and buys from huntsman is low, but not zero, which by necessity makes his existence possible. Given that, it will again fall down to how you want to define reasonable, and whether or not anyone accepts your definition. Even then, I'm pretty sure whatever definition is come up with will not preclude the existence of a "reasonable excuse."So on balance there probably is a time when there is a fair reason to pay top whack for clothes; for most of the people on here it never happens.