Friday, October 25, 2013

my imaginary uniform


$575 is too rich for my blood, but I'm clicking through every fucking day waiting for this sucker to go on sale.

Related: These platform booties are KILLING ME. Loeffler Randall is have a huge sale -- 20% off everything until October 28 -- but now that I'm un(der)employed again my shoe budg is pretty much nil.
Posted by esb at 11:31 AM
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13 comments:

  1. AnonymousOctober 25, 2013 at 1:17 PM

    I'm sorry but that jumpsuit looks like the Ghostbusters uniform.

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  2. KellyOctober 25, 2013 at 2:15 PM

    Looks like something a mechanic would wear. Coverall plus alterations = a whole lot cheaper than $575

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  3. 17 beats.October 27, 2013 at 6:51 AM

    The model isn't selling me. She needs to look a little more stoked about the fact that she's wearing a 600$ cotton jumpsuit.

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  4. 17 beats.October 27, 2013 at 6:52 AM

    PS. shoes would be an investment. You can't afford NOT to buy them !

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    1. esbOctober 28, 2013 at 10:57 AM

      sigh.

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    2. VanessaOctober 29, 2013 at 2:34 PM

      No. Shoes are not an investment.

      I really wish people (mostly women) would stop describing expensive purchases as "investments". It almost always sounds like a way to rationalize or peer pressure what are often bad financial decisions. You may get a lot of enjoyment and good feelings from owning nice shoes, and that's ok, but it doesn't make that purchase an "investment". When you make an investment, you give money expecting to get more money back. Calling expensive purchases "investments" helps to perpetuate the stereotypes that women are a) bad at math and b) bad at making responsible financial decisions.

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    3. esbOctober 29, 2013 at 2:54 PM

      17 beats is being flip, but the idea behind "investing" in high quality shoes/clothes is that they'll last much longer than the cheap versions, saving you money in the long run.

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    4. esbOctober 29, 2013 at 2:59 PM

      @Vanessa also, I judge you on your shoes

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  5. VanessaOctober 29, 2013 at 3:33 PM

    Judge away! I love my shoes no matter what you think of them :)

    I get that spending more money on better quality materials and construction can save you from having to pay for replacement and repair. Still, for as many times as I've heard that argument, I know almost no one who actually really wears their shoes out before buying new ones. For as many times as I've heard "oh but these $400 shoes are an investment" I can also probably count on one hand the number of people I know who even go to the trouble to weatherproof their shoes.

    I'm not saying "don't buy expensive shoes" - that would really be the pot calling the kettle black. I absolutely think you should buy the best quality you can afford, even if it means having fewer shoes/clothes overall. But it's a sunk cost, and if a person rationalizes a purchase that is out of his or her current reach by saying it's an investment, it probably won't save the person any money in the long run.

    I know I'm out on a limb ranting about an offhand comment that was meant to be fun, and I don't mean to pick on 17 beats.

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