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On the back of the fancy jeans thread - how much value do you place on clothes?
Back of a fag-packet working out I think I'd be lucky to hit £500 including shoes/trainers/wellies. My last trip to a clothes shop was July last year before I went on holiday. And I've bought x3 band t-shirts at gigs since then!
Hard to say really.. Tend to just buy stuff as needed and don't really think about it.
I think I've only bought socks and keks in the last 12 months and a tshirt or two.
Oh and a suit, but I only bought that as I had a funeral and my old suit is too tight.
I honestly thing I'd struggle to hit half of that! Couple of pairs of jeans/shorts a year from Next, couple of hoodies, pair of trainers per year. Have a bit of a thing for nice t-shirts so 4 or 5 a year...
I live in jeans/hoodie or shorts/t-shirt so aren't the most expensive person to dress 🙂
No idea tbh. I used to buy anything from TK Max but over the last few years I’ve started to care more about where my clothes come from. I tend to buy t-shirts, hoodies, jumpers etc from Rapanui and then occasionally treat myself to something nice from HebTroCo or similar. Whatever I buy from the expensive end will be worn until it’s dead.
Somewhere in the £1-2k bracket these days but def reducing as I get older...
I try and buy everything from charity shops. General clothes, t-shirts, shirts, trousers is easy. Plenty of tech tees too. Hard to get footwear. I think men hold on to shoes and boots until they are dead (the shoes or the men). I can usually find football boots and smart shoes but have to get walking boots, cycling shoes and running trainers new. Coats is another tricky one, lots or average ones but nothing good, who gives a good gore-tex coat to charity? Keeps the budget well down. Maybe £200 a year average. Wouldn't dream of buying fancy jeans. Expensive purchase would have to be an outdoorsy jacket or walking boots but that'll be only every 5+ years. All that said the deals this year have probably pushed me up quite a bit. New cycling boots, some new cycling trousers, found a good deal on trail shoes too and have stocked up. Probably close to £500 this year but have a few years worth of supply
Hard to say on a yearly basis. I tend to buy decent quality stuff so it lasts years. This year I think I bought a pair of Naked and Famous Selvedge Jeans @ about 170 a Howlin’ cardigan for about the same and some cheap cords.
I’ll expect I’ll get another HebTroCo overshirt as soon as stock comesin. So there’s another 150ish
I have built a collection of trickers over the last few years but they could last a decades tbh.
Surely depends on big/new your wardrobe is already – example I could probably go for the next year without spending anything, but that’s only because of what I’ve spent in the past.
That's a good point.. previous year I bought some leather 'business' shoes, some crocs, some slippers, some walking shoes and some trainers, so a fair wedge...but with those on rotation, along with some older 'dossing about' pairs mean I won't need any footwear for a long time as theres not a huge amount of wear on any particular pair, compared to say if I just had one pair of 'all purpose' trainers and one pair of 'office' shoes.
Probably £200-300, if we exclude sporty clobber.
I have a lot of good-quality staple garments in anyway.
Probably £200-300, if we exclude sporty clobber.
Pretty much that. Topped up with birthday/Xmas gifts from Mrs S.
It probably helps that I don't have work clothing to think about, we rarely get "dressed up" and our hobbies are basically all outdoor pursuits. Don't ask for a budget on the latter...
I was the OP on the jeans thread. Spending £200+ on jeans is a lot of money. But though I'm not wealthy, I can afford it.
I'm now into my 60's and probably have most of the clothing I'll ever need. I have enough shirts, sweaters, fleeces, outdoor gear, cycling stuff etc etc. I even have a suit somewhere, though even at funerals and weddings I refuse to wear it.
So, other than socks and underwear I need very little.
My argument being if I spend £200 on a pair of jeans that I get enjoyment. from, then that will just be about my annual budget.
Yeah, I'm in the £200-300 per year. Last year I bought 3 pairs of jeans that cost about £120. Maybe a couple of shirts and T-shirts plus pants and socks.
Without cycling kit I'd have to work particularly hard to be over £300.
I tend to avoid buying clothes unless it is absolutely needed - caveat there is I don't do that for my biking gear - but that is still when it needs to be replaced...
I could go a year with spending less than £50 on clothing, but the next year it could be £400 or £500 (that would be the extreme high end of my spend) - depending on how long my footwear lasts...it really depends on when things stop being useable as until that happens they don't tend to be replaced. Which makes me sound like some sort of saintly figure, but I do seem to have plenty of t-shirts and shirts that have been collected over the years - I really need to have a clear out of all this stuff I think.
I don't tend to budget for clothing as I just see it as something to hide my embarrassment at having such an ugly naked body - I don't mind people laughing at me, I draw the line at panicked screams...
Yep - another in the 'few hundred quid' camp here - jeans when the current ones get holes in them (usually Levis when on silly cheap offers or Next ones). Almost all of the rest of my stuff comes from TK Maxx, apart from the odd bit of fitness stuff from Decathlon or Primark (Primark's gym tops are great value at about £8). Every two or three years I will buy a new winter coat which is usually Decathlon and usually around £100.
Probably more than I think. But equally I've been through a phase the last ~2 years of trying to wear some old stuff out then bin it. I've probably got 50+ T-Shirts, of which only about 10 are suitable to be worn as anything other than a base layer under a jumper! Same with shoes, there's 4 pairs of converse that need wearing for another couple of months then binning.
But still in the hundreds even including cycling kit.
I have a one in-one out policy, so I buy only when I need to. Most of my clothes tend towards the 'pay a bit ore to get a quality piece' as opposed to fast fashion from the high street. Big money spinners for me are things like a winter coat, or replacement jeans. The last pair of jeans I bought were Howies at £75.00 in the sale and now after 3 years, they're just beginning to wear in nicely
Edit: oh, cycling gear is just when I need it, again I tend to buy better quality rather than cheap, but the thorns and crashes sometimes have other ideas.
Big money spinners for me are things like a winter coat
Yeah I spent about £300 on a nice herring bone wool overcoat...but that was 12 years ago, lol! and it's still going strong, just gets dry cleaned maybe once a year, so it's worked out quite cheap!
Must look pretty sweet with your Fez too 😀
Cycling and outdoor kit - £500 a year.
Ordinary clothes - £200 maybe?
It shows, and I need to make more of an effort to get my act together.
If I need clothes, I buy clothes. I don’t need them very often. Long gone are the days when I’d go looking for a new item of clothing for fun, or to make myself feel better.
on the other hand, I spent a lot on bike clothes last year. A lot for me, but around £200
Very little to be honest but like mentioned above if I see something I like I'll probably buy it ....
Eldest is coming on 18 and I still have t-shirts I wear that are older than him.
Not including cycling gear or work wear for the farm? It would be in the region of about £50 a year I guess.
Now I’m older I’m comfortable buying clothes from more upmarket shops than I was when the kids were little and priorities were more pointed (was always a case of grab an armful of stuff from Tkmax) but these days whilst I’ll happily pay full whack for Japanese denim, I’m a lot more discerning so I probably spend less overall.
I’ve had some astonishing deals on vinted - well worth having a search for any brands you like on there
Yearly it's one pair of jeans, some pants, socks and a t shirt or 2. Jumper every few years, but some of those last for 2o + years so not that often. So < £100 I think in the last 12 months but some years will be more. But as per the jeans thread, if a £90 pair lasts 2 years or more, then that's better than a cheaper pair once a year. My son is now bigger than me, so I am also getting the odd hand-me-down (up?) from him too. My old insulated jacket went missing just before the winter, handily at the same time as he grew out of his, so I gained it.
Technical stuff? Well I barely ride so haven't bought anything for a few years.
Hmm.. I probably buy 2 x pairs of trainers a year at £50-60 each, a pair of jeans at around £40, a couple of tops/hoodies at maybe £40 each, maybe 2-3 T-shirts at £25 each, etc..
i bought a pair of Timberland Chelsea boots last year a £150, but probably won't do that again for 2-3 years.
I don't mind spending decent money on good quality technical/outdoor stuff if its going to last - same with cycling gear - to me Rapha bibs at £100ish are well worth it.
I reckon accross, work, casual and sport i probably spend £400 - £600 a year on clothes.
I think I spent £950,000 or so. Plus Vat.
I tender to buy lots of the same thing at the same time
Set of work shirts 8
Set of jeans 4
Sent of Undies 20
Set of socks 10
Ill buy the odd print tshirt i like
but the rest is shuff I've had for up to 20 years a t this point and I dont seem to be to heavy on clothes overall - any given year it will be £500 or nothing
nickjb: I try and buy everything from charity shops"
I try charity shops and see nothing even close to wearable, if you have any tips I'll be all ears please.
I buy when the item is worn out, I only replace not add to the volume. Happy to pay a proper price for things that get worn a lot and trying to get everything from places like community clothing and hebcotro. Probably about 400 a year when considering socks, pants, Ts, jumpers, footwear but this is averages over xyears...
£250 max including footwear. Only but stuff if I absolutely have to. "Nice" things (artisan trousers etc) are usually presents.
Christ knows! I have enough socks and pants to wear a pair a day and only need to put them in the wash once a month. Tee shirts and other shirts again I’ve got more than most people would consider reasonable - I’m still wearing band tee shirts from gigs I bought in the mid to late 90’s. I’ll never need to buy another pair of jeans. I’m currently wearing a pair of Vans I had new soles put on that must be over twenty years old.
Generally, I might buy something just because I like the look of it, not because it’s essential.
My Meindle Desert Fox army boots need re-soling, all four pairs, because the foam midsole has literally turned to powder, despite the actual sole being fine, as are the uppers, and that’s around £80-100/pair! I’m really torn between binning them and buying some more off eBay; the most I paid for a pair was £38, new they’re £170, but a resole is around £100. I’m struggling to work out which way to go, I can’t justify the waste throwing out perfectly good boots with years of wear, but it’s still a lot of money to get the soles replaced. 🤷🏼
Dunno, but hebtroco have had about £1200 from me in the last 12 months 😅
I have recently given several suits and shirts to charity but still have far too many clothes Including shoes, boots, belts, cufflinks - many unworn.
The only definite purchase this year - and in the foreseeable future - will be a bespoke 3 piece suit; I supplied the cloth and lining to my tailor about 4 years ago - his prices to measure and make have increased by 20% in that time so...in the next few months.
Other than that - nothing.
I spend less now I'm on the office less. Probably spent around £1,200 in the last 12 months. Half of that was on footwear.
The only time I actually spend my money on clothes is when it's work related and then I just put that through my business. Around £200-300.
Normal clothes I just ask for stuff at Xmas/birthday and customers often give me vouchers I spend on clothes.
Cycling clothes, no cost.
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I try charity shops and see nothing even close to wearable, if you have any tips I’ll be all ears please.
Mostly it's about going to quite a few. You don't need to spend ages as they usually only have a couple of rails for men. Nip in, see if there is anything, get out. Don't usually make a trip of it, just pop in if I'm passing. There's loads round here. Can also go in on a run or a dog walk. Had some great stuff over the years. Probably 80% of my wardrobe now.
Another tip is not to overthink it. If you aren't sure about something just buy it. Worse case scenario you are a fiver down and a charity has some money. You can always re-donate for a win-win
Over the last four years probably less than £200 / yr on normal clothes.
And that includes £100 on my first shoes in 6 years.
But I do spend a lot more than that on biking gear - maybe £500 this year, including a new winter jacket (replacing one that was a decade old). I also wear my bike kit out and about - Keela Roadrunner trousers and the like.
I looked a right state at the GP clinic this morning (but I did cycle there) 🙂
I like clothes so my annual budget is probably around the £1,500 mark. Having said that I expect it to reduce significantly since I discovered Vinted.
I wouldn't and couldn't justify spending £100 or more on jeans or even much beyond high street brands for everyday or work clothes. I'm increasingly buying in second hand places even.
But show me a nice new piece of outdoor or cycling kit, and I'll invest in quality every time.
But I'm also a huge bargain hunter.
Just ordered some new running shoes, I think that's the first item of clothing this year.
Although some Air Max 90s have taken my fancy and I have a casual wedding coming up soon too. I've bought some nice clobber from Vinted too, I could never bring myself to pay full price when it's a few quid on there.
I appear to be the opposite of most on here. As in I’ll cycle in any old kit. It’s going to get absolutely filthy and ruined with all the mud, brambles, rocks and falling off. No way am I spending lots on kit for that. Whereas, it might be quite shallow but, I care about how I look in normal day to day circumstances. Everyone looks like an utter **** on a bike.
For footwear I mainly wear Vivobarefoot stuff. Send it back to revivo when dead and I’m considering having a pair revived as I really like them and the uppers are in great condition. I keep thinking of returning to normal footwear but just find most stuf FB really heavy and cumbersome now (shakes fist at Vivo).
I spend good money on waterproofs, gloves, and boots for riding in, and running shoes, and threw a lot of.money at the Wiggle sale stocking up on Merino base layers and socks. But that's very infrequent, as evidenced by everything else I have falling apart.
Day to day clothes pretty much nil, I get socks and jumpers and things for birthdays and Christmas usually and have plenty so no need to buy any.
I do need some new boots though, been looking and they are £200ish😳 But also an infrequent purchase, my current ones must be five years old. They will be the only piece of non-sports clothing I will buy this year (and probably for a few more years until the rest of pants have fallen apart!)
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I work in the fashion industry...
Based on the last 12 months or so
Casual - around £1500
Bike - around £600
Workwear - around £1200
Other years, the whole lot could total less than £500
Clothes are a separate budget to footwear surely?
I hammer shoes as I walk lots with the hound and I'm 95kg again at the moment. So a pair will last me half a year at best usually. I destroyed some Merrell gtx boots in 8 months recently so replaced them with some innov8s which may last as long, or may not.
I tend to wear shorts for 8 months of the year and settled on liking Volcom Chino style ones, surfdome was my supplier of choice and I stocked up over a few years but a bunch I have now will fall apart this year and with no more surfdome I'll need to find a new supplier.
Haven't owned or worn jeans for years, but wear cheap next chinos, but the randomness in sizing is getting on my nerves as is the average at best quality. But trousers are a pain for tree trunk thighs.
Had to buy a new multi-purpose suit last year for weddings and a funeral it turned out and my old suit was for a larger meter. So I have a lightly used m&s navy blue suit in a 42" chest if anyone wants to get a bargain!
I still enjoy being told I'd never get a good job if I didn't dress smartly and being threatened by the deputy head about not wearing my blazer everyday. I've never had a job I need to dress up for, I wear a t-shirt and shorts to work all summer, as does my bosses boss.
I’m not sure, but I think that nice blue submariner jumper on the hebtroco website will probably use it all up.
Excluding cycling stuff... about £100
£600~ on running shoes (!)
250-300 on normal clothes, 50%~ are second hand from Depop
once you own a load of cycling/ other sports kit, you then don’t need to buy much more of it. Hate to think how much I’ve spent on it - but absolutely a worthwhile investment
Excluding cycling stuff… about £100
Socks & undercrackers for a year plus 7 cheap-cheap t-shirts and a pair of jeans costs more than this - do you all think you're in a 4 Yorkshireman sketch?
I'd have to go through all my Tesco receipts to find out.
But yesterday I found why my feet were getting cold this last few weeks so I'll need to invest in a new pair of wetsuit boots.
7 cheap-cheap t-shirts and a pair of jeans costs more than this
Every year? Surely that is 5 years min of T shirtage.
Every year? Surely that is 5 years min of T shirtage.
All my T-shirts are from Last Exit to Nowhere. They last at least 10 years, some 15 years old now. They then spend another few years in the workshop as bike rags.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-68545114
This was timely. BBC weather presenter has just stopped buying new clothes....last year she spent £700.
Must admit, I'd have thought someone on TV would spend more on clothes than the average STWer
Since I've stopped needing to wear suits, which seem to never last, even when you buy two pairs of trews, a lot less.
Something like £500, but I've never really counted.
I won't pay full price though, usually shop in the sales twice a year for anything that needs replacing - the brands I know fit me have horrific RRPs.
Bike clothes don't count, that's sporting equipment 😉
That BBC woman, quote:
"She spent about £700 on clothes last year and estimates she currently owns about 200 items of clothing."
Pretty much bet that the "200 items" won't include underwear - if you'd 200 items of clothing when would YOU next need to buy something...
Are you including cycling clothes and shoes?
If so then I'd say it's about a grand in the last 12 months for me.
I’ll cycle in any old kit
I'm like this for the weekly night rides and local mtb/gravel Autumn/Winter/Spring rides. Most of my kit has been repaired and is multiple years old.
But it's nice to have some better kit for the summer rides, especially for big days out.
Varies last year got a tailored suit.
This year be a lot less. Though it depends on how fast I kill shoes
Riding gear, afew hundred quid probably (Tend to only buy stuff in sales and only things I really need) Casual clothes probably about the same, tend to wear the same stuff till its dead which can be upto 10 years going off some of my t shirts.
I spend a fortune on shoes, taking a UK size 14/ eu 50, it isn't easy to just go into town and browse a selection. I bought some lake mx201 and cx 201 in the past 12 months that alone was 500 just for 2 pairs of cycling shoes that aren't actually that good but actually fit which has been a rare luxury throughout my adult life. Also spent a fortune on lems and vivobarefoot shoes over the past 12 months as I stocked up while they had my sizes in stock. Probably about 2k on footwear over the past year, but I have enough now to not have to worry about not being able to find anything that fits when I need it.
For normal t-shirts I take a 3xl, but for cycle clothing that usually relates to 5xl which again means I tend to stock up when I find stuff available. And when fashions drifts to skinny shoulders and sleeves it gets even more difficult.
The big problems with outsize clothing and shoes is availability we have to buy when we can not always when we need to, they rarely get discounted and we usually pay premium prices for bog standard quality or lower.
Yearly doesn't make sense for me. I might spend a chunk on shoes from Northampton or tweed from Donegal then they last me for years and years. I also bring my averages down by buying stuff off Ebay.
Do running shoes count ? I seem to get through a pair every 3 months as they don't last more than 750km
I have a one in-one out policy,
That's a horrible image of Peter Beardsley and Frank Rijkard you just gave me 😬
"I have built a collection of trickers over the last few years but they could last a decades tbh."
Same here but i’m about to spend several hundred pounds on resoles for them along with a pair of redwings but looking at the cost of ownership over the years they are terrific value and make throwaway plastic trainers look like an extravagance. Have had them for over a decade and expect at least another out of them.
I guess I spend anything between £400-£1000 a year including cycling but tend to buy a mix of very high quality bought in the sales and reasonable quality ‘cheap’ stuff like Uniqlo V-neck jumpers, I find stuff lasts for years if you look after it.
I buy a good pair of selvage jeans every year or two and have about 6-7 pairs on the go in various stages of fade from smart to DIY use, when the DIY pair gets binned I’ll buy a new pair.
A friend is a Saville row tailor and I had a shirt made (sourced but not made by him as shirtmakers make shirts) and i’m not buying any shirts from the high st now but will get one made a year as once you have a proper fitting shirt you realise how uncomfortable your other shirts are.
Have loads of cycling kit for road/mtb and buy very little though had to get some new road shoes as the sole came off but they were about 8 years old.