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Not to offend anyone, but how old are you guys that are spending hundreds of dollars on a pair of jeans? And do you work pay for them yourselves? I am 37 yrs. old and work pretty hard for my money and I am guessing it's my age, but IMO, it just doesn't make any sense. Maybe I ought to actually try on a pair of these jeans just to see. Only thing is, I don't even go into stores that sell clothes that cost that much.
For some reason, reading threads about wasteful, expensive things like this makes me mad and sad at the same time. "God, why are you so unfair? These people spend hundreds and even thousands of $ on a pair of jeans while you let some innocent young children else where in the world starve and abused to death. Why, I ask thee, why?"
this reply is stupid.
go through your closet and
tell me what brands they are,
and where it's made.
i'll tell you all about their labor ethic.
you are the one who's supporting the factorys in china
with labors working 15 hours a day with 15 min. lunch break
by buying all those gap, wrangler, levi... etc. cheap shiet.
who's the hypocrite now?
my jeans?
it has lables inside that list individuals who
designed them, cut the pattern, and constructed them
along with their contacts incase it needs repair.
last time i called them they were having a party at
maxfield's of beverlyhills so i don't think we should worry much.
not that i'm trying to justify any of these insanity,
but it's actually how they are made.
i work for the industry so this is what little i know of it-
material, treatment, wash, construction all factor in.
for example,
let's say you want to use exotic high quality organic cotton,
with some trick printing, plus multiple enzyme or soda wash process,
cut and sewn instead of using preexisting patterns,
in a small run-
wholesale cost can go as much as $100 or so,
and that's when you source them out of china or india, ignoring, "ahem" your moral conscious about child labor. .
if you wanna make it more exotic by making them in, say, usa, japan, or italy?
selling $150 per shirt won't give you much profit.
it's not as simple as using $1 hanes tee with some cheap heat transfer prints then charging people $100 for it.
sure some retards are going to fall for it
but a lot of kids in the market these days, are pretty well educated and hard to please.
Somebody like me, unfamiliar with this segment - would I be able to tell a difference in quality between a mass-produced Hanes and a one-at-a-time handcrafted (but not custom!) evisu shirt?
[QUOTE=kumainu,Nov 30 2007, 11:56 PM] I would go away if you'd donate to a children's charity, but knowing how "crafty" you are with money, I'd doubt there's any truth to that.
"God, why are you so unfair? These people spend hundreds and even thousands of $ on a pair of jeans while you let some innocent young children else where in the world starve and abused to death. Why, I ask thee, why?" 
I like Diesel, True Religion, Rock and Republic, Joes, Paige and Paper Denim
