Detail your latest clothes and slap related purchases here #2
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gaijingirl
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ok... I did mean to get it early but if it means no presents and it would bother you then that obviously wouldn't work. I recall Christmas is quite important to you... I think I've had things early and just been happy with a token/joke gift on the day but I appreciate that's not an option here.
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
Ibought some rings today, I find that the more rings I have he more I want to wear on every finger 
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Yes. My sticking point. All the 'new this year' coats are £25-£30 more than the older ones. This is pretty much the cheapest.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
No indeed. Xmas = srs business.
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
A coat has to be bought and coats can be such bland, utilitarian items that I think it is always wise to buy a coat that you really, really like. Especially during the horrible cold months.
I've got a few coats and jackets that were quite expensive and I had to think twice about it but they are lovely, I still adore them and wearing them is a joy.
If you think you're going to love it for a few years then I say to get the coat.
ShiftyBagLady
Thinks she is a flower to be looked at
See also: cost per wear argument
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Ok - Hell bunny's offerings (sorry, pics are fucking enormous):
£75
£95
£85 - Best length, but I'd have to 'do something' about the weird black doily attached to the collar.
£95
£75
£95
£85 - Best length, but I'd have to 'do something' about the weird black doily attached to the collar.
£95
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
None of which do I like more, and I suspect of not being especially good quality (the first picture, you can see it's that spongey textured fabric that ultra cheap coats from the supermarket are made of. Which is fine if it's ultra cheap.
gaijingirl
Well-Known Member
ooh.. that girl up the top is going to get very cold legs... 
Voley
Joyful and Recumbent
In other news I have bought a new suit, which I don't seem to be able to find a picture of for some reason. And it hasn't arrived yet which is a little concerning.
Anyhow, it's black and single breasted so you probably know what it looks like. Three new shirts to go with it (which I also can't find pictures of)
Need some decent shoes to finish it all off. A tie or two as well probably, although I have exactly twenty quid in my bank account just now so that seems unlikely.
Anyhow, it's black and single breasted so you probably know what it looks like. Three new shirts to go with it (which I also can't find pictures of)
Need some decent shoes to finish it all off. A tie or two as well probably, although I have exactly twenty quid in my bank account just now so that seems unlikely.
Voley
Joyful and Recumbent
I anticipate still having ample arse-padding to deal with this situation for the foreseeable future.
Voley
Joyful and Recumbent
What I really want is a pukka Alpha Industries M65 but I've got a feeling I'm gonna look like a bit too Vietnam-vet-thousand-yard-stare-Travis-Bickle-in-Taxi-Driver if I get one of them. I say 'It reminds me of 'Nam' too much as it is.
Having said that, Alpha Industries are American so I'm probably a medium in their size.
Having said that, Alpha Industries are American so I'm probably a medium in their size.
moose
like some cat from Japan
Nowt wrong with Travis as a style icon. Get one! I've got Alpha Industries coats I bought 25 years ago, you definitely get your money's worth.
Voley
Joyful and Recumbent
"One of these days a real rain's gonna come" etc.
I'd need the mohawk and shades really to complete the ensemble though. Yeah I've heard they're built to last. What with being worn through the Vietnam war and what have you.
zenie
>^^<
Yeh this^^^^ £175 is taking the fucking piss, collectif ain't £175 quid nice!! Will they have another sale?
Also how long are you gonna wear it, given i think you posted elsewhere you were back on the dust?
I really like the bottom greenish one
Miss Caphat
I want it that way
Ok - Hell bunny's offerings (sorry, pics are fucking enormous):
£75
£95
£85 - Best length, but I'd have to 'do something' about the weird black doily attached to the collar.
£95
I really love the top black one. want!
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
There will be a Christmas Day sale, I expect - usually half price on everything, but as some of you know, stock on pretty much everything is limited.
zenie - I am back on the dust. This morning I'm thinking I should go for the cheapest black, short hell bunny one. Because it's cheap, for one, and also because it's black and has a hood, which none of my other coats (stupid giant-length trench coat, excepted) are. So even though it'll be too big relatively soon, I can still wheel it out on occasions where my red/green/blue or coral-coloured coats aren't quite the thing.
So... probably the short black hooded coat from hell bunny. £75.
Unless I change my mind.
zenie - I am back on the dust. This morning I'm thinking I should go for the cheapest black, short hell bunny one. Because it's cheap, for one, and also because it's black and has a hood, which none of my other coats (stupid giant-length trench coat, excepted) are. So even though it'll be too big relatively soon, I can still wheel it out on occasions where my red/green/blue or coral-coloured coats aren't quite the thing.
So... probably the short black hooded coat from hell bunny. £75.
Unless I change my mind.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
See, all my other coats are vintage styles anyway, so it's not that I'd want to replace them for newness reasons. They just don't fit.I am wearing out the last three year's "new coats". They are all perfectly ok and means I am saving a load of money and rediscovering old favourites. But I do want a new coat
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
I think both the top 2 are lovely and decent value for £75 unless the quality is shit.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Coat buying just doesn't feature on my list if exciting clothes shopping opportunities. I think I've bought precisely two winter coats in my life, with the intention of buying 'the right coat'; the rest have been scrounged from friends/clothes swaps, given to me by well-meaning relatives or bought for the lols (yes you, smelly old astrakhan from the student vintage shop).
It's only in the last year or so that I've come to realise that the right coat makes an outfit
It's only in the last year or so that I've come to realise that the right coat makes an outfit
Cribynkle
squawk
Help me.
After our expensive holiday, and in anticipation of winterval, I have been trying to buy a little less by way of clothes. I did have a mini splurge last week to celebrate a weightloss marker - but otherwise pretty good.
Problem is, I need a coat. It's getting fucking freezing and although I have three fabulously stylish coats and a warm jacket, the largest of them is still about two sizes too small. I have a black trenchcoat but that is long enough to come almost to my ankles (bought online) and anyway, not v. warm. I have a cheapy leather jacket for weekends, but for work I've been making do with a winter-weight suit jacket. It's not tenable.
Anyway, a coat will have to be bought. I have given myself permission for that.
But then today, Collectif launched this:
Which instictively I love... but it's £175! I mean it's the most flattering length and the waist/full sirt thing is exactly right, and I really love the colour of that fur trim. All my other fabulous coats are collectif... but still, £175... and also, in full rationality, is it not a bit 16-year-old-loli-goth? It has bows on the pockets and another on the back of the waist... and I'm forty and a size 22. I won't look like ^^^ that.
I don't know - advise me.
I'd stick it on a Pinterst board with the other contenders and ponder it for a week, if it's perfect then you should get it regardless of whether it's £175. But you're not 100% sure so you probably shouldn't get it. If you give yourself a week to think about it you'll probably find a good alternative
Cribynkle
squawk
I love a good coat! I just don't feel right if I don't love my winter coat and they always have to be green. I had a blue winter coat one year and it was just rubbishCoat buying just doesn't feature on my list if exciting clothes shopping opportunities. I think I've bought precisely two winter coats in my life, with the intention of buying 'the right coat'; the rest have been scrounged from friends/clothes swaps, given to me by well-meaning relatives or bought for the lols (yes you, smelly old astrakhan from the student vintage shop).
It's only in the last year or so that I've come to realise that the right coat makes an outfit
monsterbunny
Well-Known Member
The modern Alpha Industries M-65 is very poor quality compared to the pre '68 model. If you can get a genuine second-hand one then go for it. It will have a silver zipper and a popper on the exterior for attaching a cold weather hood. Very hard to come by. The Real McCoys do a good repro but it's over £500!
Avoid the snides on eBay, an M-65 should be made of DWR 'sateen', not plain old cotton which soaks up water like a sponge. The M65 hoods are useless too, they're designed as windstoppers worn under a helmet. And there are no internal pockets.
Alternatively you could go for the previous era (Korean), the M-53 which has the fold down lapels or the much more stylish M-41. My personal fave.
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