Friday, April 22, 2011

What Can You Get for $350?


Survey: Would you pay $350 for this shirt?

No, I didn't get this shirt...
For $350, I got six shirts, and and fifteen $10 bills... sort of.
Our neighborhood postman does not like headphones, and instead clips a small portable radio to the outside of his letter bag and enjoys sports radio at the tiny devices tinny-trebled strained maximum volume.  He knows which names go with which faces, the history of nearly every house and its inhabitants, and can accurately speculate as to the goings-on based on what is being received through the mail-slots.  This morning, an early-bird delivery was buzzed into our robed and pajama-clad city house.

"Gud Mawnin'!Mawr stuff from London!Sign heeya!Summaz comin' soon!Howzya kid?!Havaniceday!"  He said in his rapid-fire early-morning friendly half-shout.

Shirts from London...  a package of TM Lewin (from whom I have never been offered or accepted any gifts, etc. by the way).  I wait and wait and wait until I get them with free shipping and at clearance prices.  I paid $200 for all of these:

$200 for 6 fine shirts

I did a quick search for what $200 could get me elsewhere.  I was [not] surprised to find what $350 could get me... though I would not.


$350 for one shirt... likely very nice.


Instead of dropping $350 for one shirt, it seems more sensible to be patient, and then strike when opportunity presents.  Who wants to read a blog about people spending $350 on a damn shirt?  You can pick up any magazine and see models draped in $450 undershirts if that's your thing.  Back in reality, a patient $33 for a nicely cut shirt is a bit better.

6 comments:

  1. So much better. I like the red stripe, a lot.

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  2. wearing a TMLewin shirt right now... love thir barrel cufflinks too. http://tinyurl.com/3rf4q4r
    Free shipping... now THAT is a deal. great tip YWP.

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  3. For 350$, which would be the equivalent of 240€, you will get the finest besboke tailored shirt with all details you want at G.Venturini in Vienna ... only to show the relation

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  4. Absolutely agreed, Sir. It also makes shifts the focus from mere "shopping" to the more tasteful (IMHO) to the far more pleasant "clothes finding". Well played.

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  5. These are really nice looking shirts. Are they MOP buttons? You'll have to do an update down the road and let us know how they wear.

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Let's keep it clean... but if you DO have to get foul, at least give it a bit of wit. Also, advertising disguised as comments will be deleted, unless it is clever.