http://store.americanapparel.net/

Made in America, livable wage for employees, quality product.

I like the t-shirts and v-necks.

 

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The first thing I open... short sleeve button-downs. All of which START at a minimum of $52. Long-sleeve oxfords STARTING at $58.



I don't buy long-sleeves for work for more than $35-$39. And they're pretty nice. (Cheap stuff is around $19).

 

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You just don't know what expensive clothes look like.

It's probably pretty jarring if you're used to shopping at Kohl's. It isn't inexpensive clothing but it's not outrageous either.

 

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Just give 10 Dollars from what you earn back to your employer and then you too can get below minimum wage and support the economy!

 

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Just because I don't piss my money away on a label doesn't mean I couldn't. Nor does it mean what I buy lacks basic quality. (And in my case, I actually buy some recognizable labels... for $35-$40. Not $60+. The cheap stuff is $18-$26.

Not pissing away my money is a major reason why I still have my houses (2). And the foreclosed one I just partnered to buy for rental. And own my cars outright (3). And will be able to reach my base-line retirement goal by 50.

You want to piss away your money, be my guest. I'll be there to buy your foreclosed house when you're done bankrupting yourself.

 

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Typical socialist ... you are about theft ...


The constant raising of minimum wage has been one of the biggest job killers in the US .... like I said, Americans are going to have to choose


entitlements like the minimum wage that will break the economy

or

jobs that will build the economy

 

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LOL expensive clothes... /rolleyes

I could not agree with you more on this topic AA.

When I worked in fortune 50 pharma where business apparel was required (that means suits for those who might not be aware), I would buy my shirts 3 at a time from Mens Wearhouse. They were like $39.99 or something, or 3 for $100. They weren't tailored, but they were certainly good quality for every day wear. Now I had a couple "nice" shirts that were in the $50-75 range but they weren't for every day wear. Those were for special occasions.

My daily wear suits were no more than $500 apiece and I had 4 of them in regular rotation, getting once a week wear out of them all for upwards of 2 years each. I mixed in a couple sportcoat + nice pants combination outfits for quasi-casual Fridays and days when I had no meetings. My shoes were about $100 a pair - all leather soles and I rotated through about 5 pairs of them: wingtips in oxblood and black, cap toes in oxblood and black, and brown oxfords. I had a pair of penny loafers too but didn't really like them very much, so I wore them infrequently.

The reason for so many shoes was not to be a clothes horse, but that you get more life out of shoes by not wearing them every day than the sum total of days if you wear the same pair everyday. I.e. buying 5 pairs of shoes to wear in rotation would last me much longer than wearing one pair of shoes every day and replacing them when they wore out 4 more times.

Ties were problematic and I usually waited for sales to get them when I could lol. It pissed me off to spend more than $20 on a tie, in fact spending $20 on a tie pissed me off.

It does crack me the fk up to think about spending $175 on a casual wear shirt though... that's hilarious!

 

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/agree Cawlin

I'm about where you were on this... even the price points. Except when I'm wearing a suit it's usually for a big deal at work and only every few weeks, not just daily wear. Therefore I only have 3 suits in the closet right now.

 

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Right now at my job, I show up dressed in jeans, clean sneakers, and a polo shirt. I dressed without looking today and accidentally put on a pair of jeans with a small hole in the knee - realized it as I walked into the building - it won't be a problem as long as I don't wear holey jeans every day haha!

 

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How do you say this with a straight face?


If you believe that the American standard of living should consistently rise, the ONLY logical outcome is that wages, across the board, will rise to meet the standard of living for a particular period of time. It's a constant cat and mouse, standards go up, wages go up.


Now, if you want the American standard of living to decrease, and you obviously do, continue blaming unions or wages for the state we're in.


And, for what it's worth, China is now experiencing the very thing I've just identified....their standard of living is rising and with it wages....

 

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