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storyofmylife
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than if you purchased a £2 top for example. When it comes to shoes I think you have to naturally spend more than your average £5 maybe. I find shoes in New Look or Primark don't have the same quality feel or quality itself.
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Good things ain't cheap, cheap things ain't good.
The real quality stuff is made to measure, isn't available on the high street, and if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it.
If you're not at that level of purchasing, stop panicking about the £50 shoes vs the £79 shoes. No one will be able to tell.
from the poundshop, you can get an item which will do the job, and will last years.
for only £1
I wouldn't expect much from a £5 shoe. But if they lasted a season then I wouldn't complain. On the other hand I don't see the sense of spending £500 on a pair of Louboutins either. I would expect them to last 100 times as long and they won't and if they did I am not sure I would still want to wear the same shoes for years to come.
Having said that the best pair of shoes I ever had were bought in 2006 from a factory shop for £3. I had to throw them away last year but I wore them to death
I sometimes buy tshirts or shorts for holidays from asdas or tesco and they always seem to outlast some much more expensive clothes from other places.
I was looking in a well known shoe store in Covent Garden last week, first name rhymes with bustle, second is a town in Kent, just past Beckenham.
Prices for decent looking shoes started at £165, and went up to over £500, average was around £185 to £225.
Last time I saw shoes for £100 was in Faro, Portugal a couple of years ago.
I think Steve Cram once said with regards to buying running shoes once you have reached £100 than anything over that there is not anything else they can do to a shoe to make it better.
BIB - excellent point. I hadn't thought of it like that before....
If I find clothes and shoes that I perceive to be nicely made and for some strange reason they're bargain basement prices, I tend to look after those ítems much better, as they're alot harder to find.......
Meaning anyone can go and buy really expensive clothing and shoes, so the appreciation isn't the same.
But rifling through markets and coming across something great, and only costing pennies, I tend to give alot more value to that.
Casual shirts for general every day wear - peacocks, primark, tesco, asda etc. are fine.
Agreed. Shop around for quality and price. Why pay M&S £25 or more for a mans traditional shirt when the identical shirt - if anything is of superior quality and cut at Primark for £6 or less. More than 5 years later and at least 200 washes the Primark collars are just beginning to show slight signs of wear.
But on the other hand at the beginning of summer I brought a bunch of long strap tops/short dresses from ebay, they were cheap buy it nows and the intention was just to have them for the summer, they're still going strong and I think they'll probably last for a long time.
In my opinion and experience slightly more expensive clothing is made to fit better than cheap clothes
I'm sorry but Primark shirts ( and other clothing ) are definitely not superior cut and quality ! Cheap shite and everyone knows it ! My 20 something sons buy stuff there and it's alright for them of course. If you're young and haven't got much money and you want cheap disposable fashion then fine, go to Primark. If you have more money and good taste then you go to independent clothing shops for quality.