Is it fast fashion because You use it 1 month? Or You use it a month because it's fast fashion?

@@TexMackerson it's fast fashion because it's shit quality and unethically made

​@@TexMackersonA lot more goes into fast fashion than how long someone chooses to wear it.

I have fast fashion pieces lasted several years

Imagine spending money on big name brands to impress other people to make you feel good about yourself but at the end of the day no one cares

Definitely guilty of that!

100%!

Same, I get compliments all the time and the most expensive item I own is $100 boots. It's all about what cut, texture and color of clothes you choose to pair together. Anything else is convenience/luxury purchases. (Nothing wrong with that.)

@@Mezelenja well said!

by your friends? i mean if you are conventionally attractive, then you can wear anything and get compliments. but most cheap clothes are cheap for a reason: poor quality, poor fabric etc. that's not to say high end clothing can't be terrible either... there is a middle ground where the price and style can hit the sweet spot

@@martinvanburen4578 if you don’t buy current season there are always plenty of sales. There’s a sweet spot in the clearance rack too.

That's a really good point actually, where more luxury items are more 'specialised' that could easily be a negative for most potential buyers

agree

the age-old argument.. but if you outgrow the $150 pair, it costs way more to replace them all every few months or year, too.

​@@Highland_Paddyoutgrow? If you are spending your own money on clothes, one would assume you've stopped growing. If you meant outgrowing stylistically every couple of months, you don't have a style to worry about.

@@gitnjur No, I meant GAINING WEIGHT primarily, like happens to most college sophomores and then again after every 2-3 years for many adults or whatever.

I think you can’t just buy everything by equation. For starters, it eliminates SOME of the fun of curation. Also, I have a bunch of stuff that’s meant to be long-lasting quality and all that, but I live in So Cal, where much of it hangs in the closet unused most of the year. We had a long, hot summer and I was mostly wearing the same crap t-shirts and shorts over and over and laundering them pretty frequently and they didn’t all fall apart and I’ll have most of them for next year again, but there would have been no point in trying to wear heavy wool trousers to try and get my Money’s Worth out of the purchases. I still don’t consider them a waste of money, either, though, because they will still be durable and all that supposedly when they DO get worn.

Gal has baby; doesn’t fit nice clothes anymore. Now has to decide on her own wardrobe replacement vs. baby clothes and other stuff. [scenario ripped from today's headlines...]

sure, but then I think he contradicts himself somewhere in there because Thrift Stores are AFFORDABLE clothing.

Also a suggestion! It would be nice to see tags under items that aren't shown in their shop page. Like if you show something on yourself as a model shot, or put up a picture of a pair of shoes or pants and don't say their names out loud in the video, it would be nice to see the name of the product as a little caption to the image in the video. It would even be a cool visual to have like a 'spec list' looking pop up alongside your model shots to name the pieces you're wearing to make them easier to find?

Lmao I just watched the video and he talked about the same shoes 💀

this will largely depend upon your first real job, so you will have to factor in "office" or "workplace culture" with your budget and go from there. If nobody else wears suits, you might still wear sport jackets to look the part more, etc.

And regarding the graph, this was really useful. I've attempted to shop with this mindset, but I hadn't really considered the red "no buy" zones. This will be useful come the tail end of sale season. I deal with these issues often as my wish lists are generally split between Lemaire and Uniqlo U. At one point, I'd tried to convince myself that if I could afford L's pieces sporadically, I'd probably move away from U because it would be a lower quality substitute. More recently, I've accepted that many of my most worn pieces have actually come from the secondary line, so I am sometimes more excited for these collections than the mainline runway because I know I can more comfortably select what I like. From fall winter, there was a padded peacoat in a lovely azuki color added to the women's collection that is apparently a complete sales flop. It is down in the $50 range now, but I'd gladly bought it at $150 when first released. I ended up liking it more than a similar piece I had paid substantially more for at Lemaire. Also, the U suiting has served me quite well. They tend to make very masculine women's pieces that almost no one wants, so I've picked up some beautiful looking outfits for jaw droppingly low prices. I'm aware that the "quality" isn't comparable to a tailormade suit, but I've found myself more at home in their jersey suiting than in a lot of my more formal clothes. These pieces absolutely hit that sweet spot of affordability, frequent use, and excitement.

The mentality of designer always = better is very cringe

some items just can't be gotten for less, though.

yeah that's also true@@Highland_Paddy

And whaaaa, magic trick at 12:06 !

You're right, Koio definitely a better example! To their credit Axel do have a whole clothing line etc.

It's from Drought! They don't have this specific one any more but they release things occasionally with a similar retro tech theme

@@ThisIsAntwon Ok yeah I just checked them out and their stuff is sick, I will keep an eye out. Ty so much for replying btw!

Some sort of Stone Island liner jacket

If that helps :)

Haha wrote this comment before finishing the video, thanks for your response, he must’ve got a crazy good deal, I did a search and there are none from stone island in this price range

Yeah, we really lucked out on it! It was in a video last year about buying steals where me and Ando go over some tips for finding stuff like that cheaply

london fog holborn boots

The pfp fits 🤯

my man, this is a fashion channel.

Going to rage against the machine now?

Consumerism*. Materialism is the theory that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications.

@@NestorVass That's probably a translation issue, because in some languages "materialism" means consumerism.

@@ErebosGR Eh still, at least now people know.

I still like some of my CHEAP clothing but also wouldn't sit around in a 3 piece Armani suit to watch TV or rake the lawn.

OK, fashion forward is just ill-fitting nonsense that I could get WAY CHEAPER at Big-5 if I want a fishing vest????

Second-Hand shopping is more hit-miss than many would like me to believe. I've been to plenty of dreadful thrift stores and grungy yard sales and can almost never find pants that fit used at all.

"Affordable" is also a mushy term because you're not breaking it down by payscale and all that.

the age-old Cost-per-Wear argument.. but if you outgrow the $150 pair, it costs way more to replace them all every few months or year, too. [so works better if you can see the future or something and know what job you will have, etc.]