Branded clothes

[MK Shrimper]

Simple, do you care if they've got a "name" on them? Me, I get clothes when I have to in sales in cut price clearance Next in MK or only when there are sales on. £5 is the max I'd pay for a perfectly good T-shirt!

So, do you blow your dosh on clothes just because they've got a little symbol and name on them, or are you like me, a tight **** who still looks dapper in cut price clobber?

Thoughts....

 

[OldBlueLady]

Really haven't got time to do this justice, I couldn't care less, but try having two teenagers, one of whom is a very image conscious almost 14 year old! She's not as bad as some and will slop around at home in "ordinary" stuff, but does like labels if at all possible. I have a friend who's boy is 15 and has only ever worn designer for the last 3 years, she pays out about a ton for jeans for him!

 

[MK Shrimper]

First poll option Kay.....

 

[* ORM *]

Frankly I laugh more at people in designer garb than I do at those blowing their eardrums with Ipods. I don't recall ever having designer garb or for that matter ever spending more than £200 on a work suit. Hasn't held back my career.

 

[steveo]

Surely the ultimate designer badge would be of your own personal design.
You can go to an embroidery firm and get your own logo embroidered onto garments for a couple of quid. Buy some plain clothes and you can be up and running for less than a tenner a polo.

Is this the way forward or is it rubbish?

 

[Tinks]

Boils down to preference and whether you earn enough to maintain a certain style.
Most designer labels are over priced, over rated and cack (says the woman who spent £400 on a bag and £150 on a matching purse)
I buy clothes that I like rather than looking at labels and always buy clothes in the sales

 

[leeblue]

I with you 50% MK, I always look for the bargains and do indeed get a lot of gear from TK MAX but when buying SUFC stuff I only buy the nike gear

 

[Stats]

Three words

T K Maxx

Label's at a significantly cheaper price

If you can be bothered to hunt through the rails for a bargain

 

[leeblue]

patience ex gaffer

 

[Hector of the House]

My old coal sacks have got me by for years now. Tramp never goes out of fashion.

 

[londonblue]

I won't pay over the odds for anything, if it has a label and I can get it cheap then I will. But I am also quite happy wearing rubbish. However, if something has a label it has to be very small and very well hidden. I find things like D&G and Tommy Hilfiger to be extremely vulgar.

If I ever buy clothes (I have had one clothes shop in the last four years) I would go to an outlet village. Last summer me and the wife stopped off in Bicester on the way home from a weekend hiking in the Cotswolds.

The best outlet village I have ever been to is Woodbury Common. Now that is dirt cheap.

 

[Pubey]

i quite like (a buy quite a lot of) designer stuff, but i'm not a fan of having stuff with massive logos and badges... i get quite a lot of penguin and lyle&scott stuff cheap from my gf's brother, and the only stuff i really splash out on are jeans, my latest being some £115 replays. TK Maxx is really good for t-shirts and shirts and i suppose i'm quite lucky cos i just go scruffy to work too, so don't need a second work wardrobe

 

[MK Shrimper]

£115 for a pair of jeans.

I am seriously lost for words. I doubt I spend £115 a year!

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Was this really the best day to bring this topic up MK?
I can foresee a lot of wardrobe malfunction related comments tomorrow......

 

[Tinks]

£115 for a pair of jeans.

I am seriously lost for words. I doubt I spend £115 a year!

Tight a**e

 

[MK Shrimper]

Was this really the best day to bring this topic up MK?
I can foresee a lot of wardrobe malfunction related comments tomorrow......

Face. Bothered.

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Face

That's one magazine you certainly won't be appearing on the cover of......;)

 

[Pubey]

Tight a**e

that's what you need to get into my jeans!

 

[SUFC_Al]

I'm possibly the tighest clothes shopper in the history of the world. Only my trainers have a brand name 'Vision', whoever the hell they are! Other than my SUFC gear, i have nothing whatsoever with brand names on them.

 

[MK Shrimper]

That's one magazine you certainly won't be appearing on the cover of......;)

No, I'll save it for Playgirl :D