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Paul Smith near Nottinghill station - the guy who works in the off the rack suit section and the bespoke section is fantastic - can't think of his name.
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quote:Originally posted by Benny the Ball: Paul Smith near Nottinghill station - the guy who works in the off the rack suit section and the bespoke section is fantastic - can't think of his name.
*useless trivia* This is down the road from me... I may stake it out to ambush Vikram *useless trivia*
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Oh, I have been... But, me being me... The only things that fit were the shoes and the wallets.
Not being a big enough prat to wear the shoes, I bought a wallet.
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I had four bespoke suits made in China, which cost me about £20 each.
Air fare to Beijing: £450 Internal flights to & from Harbin, where I stayed: £66 Hotel for a week (the time it took to make them): £70 Food & beer for a week: £98 (and that's good food & good beer!) Taxis to & from airport: £16 Suits, inc. Material & labour: £80 Total: £780
Cost per suit: £195.00
I know what I'm doing when I next need a suit or four!!!
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Good one. They mentioned b3ta on Radio 4 at the weekend, and its sister site, which I'd never heard of before (behind the times as usual), sickipedia.
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quote:Originally posted by Doctor Agamemnon When: Cost per suit: £195.00
I was amazed that someone would be willing to spend 350 quid on a suit. Even 195 seems extravagant to me. Never mind four.
But seriously. 350 quid. On a suit. For work, presumably. What nutter spends that sort of money?
Oddly I can imagine someone (i.e. a shexhy woman) spending 300 quid on a top-notch pair of shoes, and thinking, well, yeah, fair enough, special pair of classy shoes, lovely, mmm.
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I think £350 quid is equivalent to about $750, ralph. I might have to edit that tomorrow, to $800, and the day after to $850, though.
My most expensive suit was reduced from £350, which places it as the most expensive item of clothing I've ever bought. I feel like a fucking idiot wearing it though. A real faker.
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My most expensive suit was 110 pounds from Marks & Spencer. It's alright I suppose.
My cheapest is a snazzy one I bought from TX Maxx on special for 40 quid, but in the wrong size (last one there), so I took it to a crummy bespoke tailor above a kebab shop to fix, which cost me 30 quid.
I buy most of my posh snazzy work shirts (Austin Reed, mainly) from charity shops for 3 quid.
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I have a £200 pair of shoes. I bought them while drunk and didn't remember until they arrived. Well...I still didn't remember buying them but their arrival suggested that I had done.
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my most expenive suit was about £250 i think. the trousers dont fit any more though so i had to spend another £90 or so on trousers that match. I did, however, once spend £300 on a coat. It was a gorgeous coat, real wool. It got stolen by a pikey in Swindon.
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The most I've ever spent is £200 on that wallet.
I felt like a real mug cuz I had a 'designer' wallet, but nothing to put into it!
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A friend, from the US of A, was always swinging his damned wallet around on one of those things, way back in the summer of 1997 - he's a minister now. I wonder if he has a small bible attached by a chain?
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quote:Originally posted by ralph: Did the wallet have some sort of chain attached?
I so did that in highschool. Stopped though when the little hook thing snagged on my car's upholstery and ripped a football sized hole in the seat. Fucking biker wallets!
quote:Originally posted by ralph: Or hasn't that phenomenon yet made it across the pond?
I've seen some freak emo/goth/mod kids wearing them... Not mainstream though... Usually the kind of people that will eventually hang themselves with it when someone smiles at them.
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quote:Originally posted by Benny the Ball: I wonder if he has a small bible attached by a chain?
God can't be chained Benny... Just His followers!
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