Attention hipsters: Hebden Bridge Trouser Co is the place.

[MarkF]

Well what do people pay? Is £40 too much? Well, I am sick of paying £40 ish for trousers that go out of shape after being worn 20 (ish) times. I like this story, I'd know what I was buying and they make a promise of longevity.

I found some trousers I liked last year, the brand was "Maine" and in Rackhams, they fitted bang on so I bought three pairs, a year later & all three pairs are fooked and I haven't worn them much. Of course, I was suckered in by "Maine", "Rackhams" and the displays & good lighting, they were perhaps also for sale in the market for a fiver, branded "Wanky pants".

I'd pay for a quality product with manufacturing & branding transparency. These might make my £40 trouser look expensive.

 

[Globalti]

This looks like the last gasp of British clothing manufacture before the people with the skills die out. There are odd pockets left (sorry!) for example in Radclffe 500 yards from my place of work is Lusso, with a team of seamstresses working away making those garments 100%. If I liked the Lusso styling more I'd buy more from them because they give me a hefty discount when I walk in.

The Hebtroco thing is a clever bit of marketing aimed at the cash-rich batchelor who is prepared to pay any money for a bit of the hipster image. I'm also sick of M&S cords, which wear out after a year so although I'm not a hipster as I don't have a beard and being bald I can't have a side parting; I'll drop in and have a look when I next visit Hebden Bridge. If nothing else we can have a giggle at the hipsters.

 

[mickle]

The shoe shop by the coop in Hebden is mega.

 

[Stephenite]

@Globalti Do Lusso have a shop in Radcliffe? If so, I'll have to pop in next time I'm over that way.

 

[Globalti]

No they don't have a shop but if you phone and ask nicely the secretary Doreen will allow you to visit and they will give you a big discount.

If you plan to drop in, send me a PM before and I'll make you a coffee at my office about 500 yards away.

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

I always used to buy Lands End, but not really bought clothes for a couple of years
http://www.landsend.co.uk/

Last item, I bought was a down-filled jacket (Jack Wolfskin) in Whitby, actually my wife bought it for my 50th (October 2015)

 

[SteCenturion]

There's a tiny little tailors shop in Clifton near Swinton that does some fine stuff, the whole tweed & countryfile type gear too.

 

[nickyboy]

This looks like the last gasp of British clothing manufacture before the people with the skills die out. There are odd pockets left (sorry!) for example in Radclffe 500 yards from my place of work is Lusso, with a team of seamstresses working away making those garments 100%. If I liked the Lusso styling more I'd buy more from them because they give me a hefty discount when I walk in.

The Hebtroco thing is a clever bit of marketing aimed at the cash-rich batchelor who is prepared to pay any money for a bit of the hipster image. I'm also sick of M&S cords, which wear out after a year so although I'm not a hipster as I don't have a beard and being bald I can't have a side parting; I'll drop in and have a look when I next visit Hebden Bridge. If nothing else we can have a giggle at the hipsters.

And I get the £110 for the trousers. It's a bit expensive but not a gazillion miles from what I might pay.

But £150 for the belt? You're having a laugh. I just don't see the material and workmanship in it to remotely justify the price. Of course Gucci and whatever have ridiculously expensive belts but their marketing and branding costs are astronomical. All those guys have is a website and a couple of beards

 

[ColinJ]

And I get the £110 for the trousers. It's a bit expensive but not a gazillion miles from what I might pay.

But £150 for the belt? You're having a laugh. I just don't see the material and workmanship in it to remotely justify the price. Of course Gucci and whatever have ridiculously expensive belts but their marketing and branding costs are astronomical. All those guys have is a website and a couple of beards

Ah, but have you seen the price of beards these days!

 

[Oxo]

Ah, but have you seen the price of beards these days!

With a bit of effort they should be able to shave their prices.

 

[Globalti]

I actually find the belt price believeable; from the video it seems it's hand made by a craftsman from A to Z. A pal of mine makes the moulds for belt buckles and bits for skean dubhs and sporrans that are die cast in China; they are sent back to a company in Leeds who use them to make Scottish heritage outfits for weddings and for homesick Scots all over the world. The metal bits cost something like five pence each but once made into a sporran they sell for hundreds. That's just profiteering.

 

[Blue Hills]

£150.00 for a belt is too much in my opinion.

yes I saw that.
Good that local manufacturing is supposedly being supported but that price is truly barmy.
And I don't think I'd want to exchange more than two words (except maybe *** off) with anyone who wore a "custom made" (for such it apparently is) belt. A belt must be one of the most easily adjustable things there is - unless there is something seriously wonky about the belt design or the wearer's waist. Can you just imagine the sort of person who would, ever so coolly, wear such a thing? I can imagine them several times leaning back ever so coolly to flash you a look of the thing, then eventually, in frustration, when you ignore the hook and just assumed that they were trying to thrust their groin into you, asking "do you want to know about my belt". Or maybe I'm too harsh and they just wander around, smug in the knowledge that their pants are held up with a £150 belt.

 

[Blue Hills]

[QUOTE 4609852, member: 259"]This is why buying trousers at Marks and Spencers is so crap. If you have legs longer than a dwarf, forget it. And what in god's name has happened to the pants?[/QUOTE]
well they do come in different lengths which I find very handy.
And their cycling chinos, of which I have several pairs, are/were wonderful.

 

[Blue Hills]

they were perhaps also for sale in the market for a fiver, branded "Wanky pants".

If I were you I'd trademark that quickly - that Hebden pair will be beating a path to your door with wads of trousered cash before the decade's out.

 

[stephec]

There's a tiny little tailors shop in Clifton near Swinton that does some fine stuff, the whole tweed & countryfile type gear too.

I've never seen that, is it on the top road?