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What is the most you have paid for a pair of shoes?
What is the most you have paid for a pair of shoes?
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I'm sure you are not endorsing slave labour and the use of children to produce the goods that come out of China , India, Malaysia etc ?
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^^^
Yes when there was a fire or collapse about 3 years ago in Bangladesh I think it was, the vocal right on activist types that now proliferate were on about boycotting stuff that was made over there in protest at their conditions. How signalling of virtue. But if that had been properly enacted, the people in those countries would have been plunged from "poor" to "absolute poverty with no other recourse" as these factories are their only option. I'm not saying the employers are great and shouldn't create better conditions but things aren't as black and white as some would see it. A few decades ago health and safety was iffy here, people died in factories and discos and so on as fire doors were locked as well. |
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That ^^^ was to screaming, not the deliberate post misintepreter. The "so you are saying we are lobsters" approach learned from Channel 4 news.
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don't get nostalgic them times will ne back after a bojo Brexit,chimmney sweep already booked
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'If the factory closes what could I afford to eat?'
By Kayleigh Long and Meta Kong Business reporters 13 December 2018 Sao Run is worried that if the clothing factory where she works closes down she won't be able to feed herself and her son. A 34-year-old widow, she has spent almost 13 years making coats and jackets at a facility on the outskirts of Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh. With overtime she can earn up to $250 (£200) a month, but the future of the workshop and others like it in the country is now uncertain due to a continuing political dispute between the European Union (EU) and Cambodia. Cambodia's garments manufacturing sector has boomed in recent years, in no small part due to the EU granting the country's exports tariff-free access to Europe, starting back in 2012. This has led to about 200 international fashion brands now using more than 600 factories in the country, lured by both the country's low wages, and the fact they don't have to pay any duties when exporting to the EU. However, at the start of October the EU warned that Cambodia's tariff-free access to the European single market could come to an end if the government did not improve political freedom and human rights in the country. ... For Sao Run, who has a three-year-old son to support, this is now a real concern. "The local union in our factory told us that the factory could close if the [EU] taxes are high," she says. "For me, if the factory closes, what could I afford to eat?" Another clothing industry factory worker, Yon Chansy, 24, says that she found out about the EU's threat via Facebook, and that she is also now worried she may lose her job. "I could consider migrating to Thailand if the situation in our country is very bad," she says. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45957193 I'm not saying this situation is ideal. And I'm not saying I'm comfortable with it. But, according to the labourers themselves, it's infinitely better than the alternative. That's the way it is. |
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About 300 Euro for a pair of Grenson boots about ten years ago.
I wear them all the time (except when dog walking). Never repaired, never soled. Value. |
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Some proper cheap skates around
200 for PCS a good buy You get what you pay for Look after things of quality and get years from them My shoes are stuffed on a rack and vaselined occasionally I don't have loads 6/8 in total |
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BTW re primark not everything they sell is crap, there are some real bargains in there, you just have to be selective :)
I think the saying along the lines that "you shouldn't buy something you wouldn't buy if it wasn't on sale" stands. |
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I'm with Ibra, Merrell shoes are strong and comfortable. Mine were £90 in a sale. I've never paid more than that.
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I paid £100 for a pair of Oliver Sweeney shoes in a sale (down from £250) about 10 years back.
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I recently bought two pairs of chelsea boots from Marks for £79 each. That's the most I've paid.
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Have never ever bought expensice shoes very rarely wear any bar funerals,lived in trainers which i spend on average around 160,would love to get a load of old adidas retro trainers but probably a bit old for wearing them..
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Have never ever bought expensice shoes very rarely wear any bar funerals,lived in trainers which i spend on average around 160,would love to get a load of old adidas retro trainers but probably a bit old for wearing them..
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you can get some nice hoodies to match Giggsy........
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Well as you all know I'm one of the Seniors on here. I can beat the lot of you.
I paid 250 quid in 1970 for a pair shoes (Baby Nile Crocodile) in Bally of Switzerland of Bond Street With the famous 'parawet' soles'. Work that out leopard. My suits were by Pierre Balmaian, work out the price for yourselves, My shirts, from Turbball & Asser, my socks from Dore Dore. In them days i was winning incredible amounts. Does that make me something special, does it fck. |
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Got some nice addidas hoodies pecker,some are 10 years old but in really good condition..
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Once paid just under £300 for a pair of Church brogues from their shop in the Burlington Arcade. In the shop had feet measured and,while stiff, they felt great. Then every time I wore them I got blistered toes and heel. Tried inserts, thicker socks, thinner socks, had them stretched. Probably kept them for about two years before selling on ebay at large loss. Never again.
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Never liked Churches Manoleeds for that very reason. Grenson, Loakes, Barkers of Earls Barton, just as good for half the price.
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I bought 2 pairs of Allen Edmonds 'loafers' in Boston, $300 a pop gave them aw.ay for the same reason. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmopROxBnBU
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The trick is to stuff them with wet newspaper for a week
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Tried that peckerdunne, also tried oil, wearing them 2 hours a day for a couple of months, plus other'tricks, gave up in the end,
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The great shoe debate!
Does that make me something special, does it fck. Yes it bloody well does! |
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Back to shoes and boots, ego aside.
A third of your life in bed, a third of your life on your feet! Never never never never never never never scrimp and save on shoes or beds and in future all my cars will have a cup holder as the other third seems to be spent in cars! I think Church shoes are magnificent if you get he right size, just kawlity through and through. Mine are over 30 years old but to be fair have not worn them in a long time. I liked Loakes which was a great shoe for the price. Proper shoes prevent back pain and the ache from the nerve down the side of your thigh. I don't got no back pain or femoral / sciatica whatever. |
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Chelsea Boots!
I have spent less on cars than I am currently spending on boots! I got some Jeffrey West Chelsea boots too and they make me feel like a million dollars when I wear them even if I haven't got a pot to piss in by comparison to the millionaires of West London. |