what is the most expensive item of clothing you have ever bought?
out of pure interest like.
A suit for £600. it lasted years mid you.
A suit for about 400 quid.
Probably my down jacket
£500 for a suit. It did last quite a while. It had turnups.
Wedding dress. Only wore the damn thing once, too!
Three piece wedding suit was £500. For a single item, £400 for a winter coat. Both from Ted Baker.
Probably my snow board jacket £250ish. I doubt i'm gonna win this one with that though. 😀
My Kilt £600 🙂
Waterproof jacket, £230 ish.
Motorcycle leathers, best part of a grand.
My Kilt £600
600 quid for a skirt......... 😯
Kilt - and all the bits. Two sporrans, shoes, jacket, waistcoat, shirt, sock, sgeann dubh, garters, belt.... must have been around £1,200 and that wasn't recently 🙂
A Costume National Homme coat for £800 back when I was young, single and had no sense
Paid £200 for a pair of gloves 🙂
My Crowtree one piece made to measure motorbike leathers. Cost me about £900 but worth every penny.
$2500 + 8% sales tax in Barney's in NYC for a Georgio Armani suit in 1999 to be the best man at my mates wedding. A young kid at clapham junction mistook me for working as a train operative 😳
Suit only ever wore once, and I have never bought any Armani stuff since.
Harkila Pro Hunter Suit, Nowt better for those days out on the hill in real bad weather.
Motorbike Leathers £550
Motorbike Goretex Textiles £500
probably a pair of these for alpine climbing
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£300ish
£250 on a TLD helmet? Non bike, I'm struggling to thing of anything over £100!
£900 on a paul smith suit to get married in, still going strong 9 years later, still worn for weddings, job interviews and the like - got a lot of use this year and was worth every penny that my father in law paid for it.
Stuff that I actually paid for myself, probably winter climbing boots - done me 10 seasons so far, making them cheaper than most of the shoes I buy.
It was bought for me if that still counts, my Barbour jacket.
Mrs Zip bought it for my Christmas present years ago and if she wrapped it up and gave it to me every year it would still be all the presents I'd ever want.
North face Parker jacket, £ 350, it's cold up here!!
It was bought for me if that still counts, my Barbour jacket.
Mrs Zip bought it for my Christmas present years ago and if she wrapped it up and gave it to me every year it would still be all the presents I'd ever want.
Reassuring, bought one at the weekend in a mad moment. Also applicable for this thread as its by far the most expensive single item of clothing Ive ever purchased. Though I guess my Wetsuit was more if that counts.
As a proportion of salary a Marco Polo shirt and a pair of pants in 1980, 95% of my months wages.
Looking back I looked like a right a$$
Pair of sidi road shoes, £250ish.
I've just got myself a Barbour Wax Quilted jacket and it's seems superb so far!
I guess mine would be a dry suit at around the £350 mark.
Always hated them but for depths of winter puddle sailing was regrettably an essential.
I've got a custom Burberry Mac which I got through a close friend who knows the manufacturer. I got to go direct to the factory and choose everything from the buttons used, liner and everything. In a shop it would be well north of £1k but I paid a fraction of that - about £220 iirc.
Saying that it's still easily the most expensive item of clothing I've bought!
I've never spent over £100 on one item of clothing. Most I've spent on one thing is probably about £65 for a snowboarding jacket which I rarely wear.
My Arc-Teryx gore-tex jacket was £240. I tried on every waterproof jacket in Newcastle and it was the only one I liked so I held my breath and went for it. Lost my job the week after and cursed myself! I'll probably beat that if I ever need a decent suit.
I just broke my personal record for a pair of trainers at £95. Similar story. Walked all over the place looking for some and eventually caved and bought the only ones I liked.
Just realised I have spent my life in very cheap, no name, clothing.
Number 5 Dress Uniform (RAF) £1000 quite a while ago.
I don't buy expensive clothes for day to day so probably my Gore Bike Wear jacket that cost £90 off E Bay
Paid 650 for my Paul Smith suit for getting married in.
Otherwise I have several pairs of shoes that were more than £200 and a leather jacket that was about $600.
it seems certain things are worth the bunce. things that may last a lot of years, say a suit, or a tailored jacket, I have always been a sucker for good leather shoes.
Bike related - Gore Alp X 2 jacket.
Nearly £200, but well worth it.
Non pushbike - Wolf motorbike leathers. Still got them now.
No bike mind.
I get my suits from M&S.
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Probably a pair of sidi mtb shoes back in 2007, think they were £220 ish.
Don't own a suit/trousers/shoes so apart from the above mtb shoes i guess i'm a scruffy tkmax or sale items only clothes buyer.
Shush 🙂 £220 on a pair of boots last year, but don't tell my OH. Wedding dress bust the bank years ago I don't want to think what it cost.
£500 suit.
wear it every day.
it's in desperate need of replacing!
I don't think I've ever paid more than £150 for any particular item of clothing. I don't count eyewear, I've spent £260 on lenses, but they're not clothing.
Thing is, I've got a bunch of pretty expensive jackets and coats, but all of them have been bought in sales. I guess the most expensive is a Spyke leather bike jacket, which I saw in a Sunday supplement, and tried to get one about eighteen months later, as a birthday pressy to myself, and every dealer refunded my money, when they found the jacket was no longer being imported from Italy. Four I tried, including the manufacturer, before I found a dealer in Swindon selling off warehouse stock. Finally got one for £175, 50% off. I got a Barbour Stockman for 50% off, too, as well as various waterproof bike and cold-weather, snowboard jackets. Cheap's good, when it's an expensive item in the first place, and will last for years, properly looked after.
£725 on a stone island coat from harrods. And that was 14 years ago!!!
£1,100 for made to measure suit with 3 pairs of trousers, I still use the place in Singapore. Wore it to my daughters wedding, had considered buying something new but to be honest its still immaculate. Handmade trousers there are £100 and cheaper than off the peg designer stuff.
Probably biggest fail has been £300 for Crocket and Jones shoes, less comfortable than Russell and Bromley at half price or Dr M shoes for £75 worn every day for commuting. Pity there isn't a second hand maket for shoes or I'd sell them.
I don't buy expensive bike stuff in generel but given my riding ability I thought £120 for a POC helmet was well worth it.
£120 on a pair of shimano road shoes.
North Face 3 in one jacket for £180.
