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      Not just that, I went into a North Face store and their shit was insane. It was like $450 for a bitch basic puffer jacket. I don’t mind paying more if it makes sense, I have a few watches over $1,000 and half a dozen Tom Bihn bags that are like $300-$400 each but they’re actually amazing quality because they’re hand made in America. North Face is Chinese mass produced trash.

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    2 days ago

    What’s with that weird photoshopped eye in the left photo? Lol

    Makes him look like a Nintendo character

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    Reminds me of the time my wife asked me “why a computer monitor would cost so much (£500)”. This was straight after she had shown me a picture of a handbag she liked that cost £6000.

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        I love fashion and I think high end clothes are priced way more appropriately than anyone here probably wants to admit, and I have huge respect for the artistry and craft that goes into it. But a handbag is definitely not a much more complex piece of engineering…at best they could be relatively similar for certain bags. The price difference is because a lot of bags need more manual involvement by decently paid workers rather than factory slaves. And because the artists doing the designing also get a solid salary as that is the primary aspect of the product. Whereas monitor designs are comparatively not so demanding to dream up and not as important.