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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I love and what I can afford are very different things!

My taste is pretty simple and classic. I appreciate it when people take interesting risks, but they aren’t for me, personally. I would love to be able to wear Max Mara or Burberry. I’ve always admired Bottega Veneta leather bags. Todd’s driving mocs. Chanel ballet flats. Hermès anything. :)

I can afford J. Crew. On sale.

I have an Hermès scarf that a relative gave me years ago. Anytime I take it out and try to wear it, I feel foolish and fold it back up and out it away. Putting it on a tote from the Tory outlet doesn’t seem right and goodness knows it looks lame with my J. Crew dresses.  [/quote]

This is where I am at (JCrew seems like a splurge now that we have 2 kids) and we have a HHI over $500k. How much do you have to make to dress like that? Or do most of you not have kids? [/quote]

How is that possible - how much do you spend on childcare and mortgage? We make a little less than you, mortgage is $800k and childcare about $50k but certainly j crew doesn’t feel like a splurge! [/quote]

Mortgage is $500k, childcare is $15k, I don’t know, I just feel like designer clothes seem so out of our range! I think we would have to have millions banked, college fully loaded, etc before I could justify buying a $2500 bag or $900 shoes! [/quote]

You’re either saving a TON or your spending it on stuff other than clothing.

We make a similar HHI, save a lot , and I probably spend $10-15k a year on designer clothing.  Plus another $2-3k in shoes.  I simply value dressing well and looking out together.

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I think we would just have to have all savings goals reached before considering spending money like that on clothes. For what it’s worth, I think it’s still possible to dress nice on a JCrew level clothing budget. Will people think you’re rich? no, probably not. Will it fit as nice? I would love that but I guess with two young kids it just doesn’t make sense right now.. a lot of my clothes get stained and ruined from the kids spilling on me. I just can’t imagine spending $18k a year on clothes for myself. That sounds absolutely amazing!

Most of our friends are in a similar income bracket and buy similar prices points as JCrew (on sale!) with some contemporary (usually nicer jeans or coat) mixed in or maybe one splurge bag a year. The only people I personally know that dress in mostly designer are making 7 figure incomes, have major family money .. so I don’t think I’m the only one who feels that is out of range on our HHI. [/quote]

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