$10k for clothing

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Anonymous wrote:How long would a $10k budget for nice work clothes last you?

Is that a couple shopping trips? A couple years? 5-10 years? More?

Just curious.

Assuming I'm starting from nothing?
I'd use it to buy a timeless coat, bag and shoes. Should last 5+ years with proper maintenance

I would hope a “timeless” coat costing $5k+ lasts more than 5 years

I would allocate the 10k like this
- coat - 5k
- bag - 3.5k
- shoes 1 - 750
- shoes 2 - 750

2 pairs of shoes because you can't wear the same pair of shoes every day

That is insane- I am in my early 50s and I make 7figures and I would never spend $5k on a coat or over 1K on a bag. Ridiculous

It is truly wild. Clothes and accessories are like wine- you get to a certain price point and the increase in quality is entirely negligible in most cases. Certain fine jewelry would be an exception to this but $3500 (or like you say $1000) for a bag is irrational.

Yeah it's not really for "quality" reasons if you actually enjoy fashion. Some of us pay for designs, because you cannot find a similar thing for cheaper. Some of us pay even more to have a piece of history. I like collecting, and it's fine if you don't, but men get to have irrational hobbies too and nobody says anything.

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10k for clothing would last me more than 10 years, probably 15. I don't care about trends, I buy classics that are well made and last forever. I recently replaced an REI raincoat that I'd had for 20+ years!

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It would likely last me a lifetime. I mostly buy 2nd hand.

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Anonymous wrote:It sounds like a lot of money - but I think I spend $5k/year on clothes now, and I work from home. Things wear out, you need a dress for something, whatever - and I am not even a big $ spender. I get a LOT secondhand on Poshmark and eBay. But stuff costs money, it just does.

I don't understand how someone spends $1000 on clothes for a year. Don't you ever want a refresh or need something for an event, or just enjoy having something new to wear? I can see if you're living bare bones - or you've reached a stage of life where you have everything you could possibly want to put on for any occasion. But otherwise? Clothes and shoes are *expensive*!

Maybe we want stuff but we just can't afford it 😅 it's all good

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Anonymous wrote:It sounds like a lot of money - but I think I spend $5k/year on clothes now, and I work from home. Things wear out, you need a dress for something, whatever - and I am not even a big $ spender. I get a LOT secondhand on Poshmark and eBay. But stuff costs money, it just does.

I don't understand how someone spends $1000 on clothes for a year. Don't you ever want a refresh or need something for an event, or just enjoy having something new to wear? I can see if you're living bare bones - or you've reached a stage of life where you have everything you could possibly want to put on for any occasion. But otherwise? Clothes and shoes are *expensive*!

Maybe we want stuff but we just can't afford it 😅 it's all good

No you're totalyl right - I put that very wrong! I mean if you have the ability to spend more but don't. Sorry, my brain is mush today and I said this in a stupid way.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How long would a $10k budget for nice work clothes last you?

Is that a couple shopping trips? A couple years? 5-10 years? More?

Just curious.

Assuming I'm starting from nothing?
I'd use it to buy a timeless coat, bag and shoes. Should last 5+ years with proper maintenance

I would hope a “timeless” coat costing $5k+ lasts more than 5 years

I would allocate the 10k like this
- coat - 5k
- bag - 3.5k
- shoes 1 - 750
- shoes 2 - 750

2 pairs of shoes because you can't wear the same pair of shoes every day

That is insane- I am in my early 50s and I make 7figures and I would never spend $5k on a coat or over 1K on a bag. Ridiculous

Hey rich person, don't tell me how to spend my own money. I only make $350k and yes that's what I spend.

[Anonymous]

that would last me about a year, in the midwest.
Putting cute outfits together is one of my only hobbies. I'm more quantity than quality and like to be trendy.
It's funny though, when I get home from work I put on the same shorts and cut off tshirts (I have 5 of each) that I've worn for at least 10 years.

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Anonymous wrote:It sounds like a lot of money - but I think I spend $5k/year on clothes now, and I work from home. Things wear out, you need a dress for something, whatever - and I am not even a big $ spender. I get a LOT secondhand on Poshmark and eBay. But stuff costs money, it just does.

I don't understand how someone spends $1000 on clothes for a year. Don't you ever want a refresh or need something for an event, or just enjoy having something new to wear? I can see if you're living bare bones - or you've reached a stage of life where you have everything you could possibly want to put on for any occasion. But otherwise? Clothes and shoes are *expensive*!

I find that there are years when I spend more than that, usually a year when I’ve gained or lost weight or switched jobs, and there are years where I buy almost nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:How long would a $10k budget for nice work clothes last you?

Is that a couple shopping trips? A couple years? 5-10 years? More?

Just curious.

Assuming I'm starting from nothing?
I'd use it to buy a timeless coat, bag and shoes. Should last 5+ years with proper maintenance

I would hope a “timeless” coat costing $5k+ lasts more than 5 years

I would allocate the 10k like this
- coat - 5k
- bag - 3.5k
- shoes 1 - 750
- shoes 2 - 750

2 pairs of shoes because you can't wear the same pair of shoes every day

That is insane- I am in my early 50s and I make 7figures and I would never spend $5k on a coat or over 1K on a bag. Ridiculous

I agree with this for bags, but I do think if you spend $1500 or $2000 on a coat vs $600 you can get a much nicer coat. I probably wouldn’t go to $5k unless I really loved it and didn’t want to look for a less expensively branded version. And that would be valid, imo. Sometimes you just want to get the thing you have in hand that solves the problem and accept that it’s not a great value.

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Anonymous wrote:It sounds like a lot of money - but I think I spend $5k/year on clothes now, and I work from home. Things wear out, you need a dress for something, whatever - and I am not even a big $ spender. I get a LOT secondhand on Poshmark and eBay. But stuff costs money, it just does.

I don't understand how someone spends $1000 on clothes for a year. Don't you ever want a refresh or need something for an event, or just enjoy having something new to wear? I can see if you're living bare bones - or you've reached a stage of life where you have everything you could possibly want to put on for any occasion. But otherwise? Clothes and shoes are *expensive*!

Maybe we want stuff but we just can't afford it 😅 it's all good

No you're totalyl right - I put that very wrong! I mean if you have the ability to spend more but don't. Sorry, my brain is mush today and I said this in a stupid way.

No problem. I mean I can afford it and have no desire to spend $100 every week (on average of course). But this thread is pretty interesting.