The CycleChat Style Thread

[martint235]

Over 10 years though, how much in total will you have spent keeping your feet warm and comfortable c.f say a couple of pairs of Clarkes shoes?

A pair of Loakes set me back around £80-£100. It's then £27.99 to have them resoled and heeled (once a year roughly) with leather soles and quarter irons on the heels so I reckon I'm saving around £30 a year not counting up front cost of the Loakes.

Plus I hate rubber soles and I wear heels down quickly (hence the quarter irons) so would work on at least two pairs of Clarkes a year.

 

[Archie_tect]

Aphorisms are a face saver for those with no sense of both style and fashion.

As you've shown Vern, style is free... it's the slavery to be 'seen' to be fashionable [judged by those who think they know best!] that really costs money- the most expensive part being that scrap of material called a brand label.

 

[andylaw79]

Since my late teens / early twenties my style or taste hasn't really altered that much, everyday comfort with surfer / skate type brands and I can usually be found in shorts and a t-shirt when not in work or on a night out. I do own a few Peter Werth shirts, and a couple of pairs of 501s which I keep for best but I'm definitely comfort over looks.

 

[Archie_tect]

New Balance trainers are a good example- made in Workington- the company started small and sold good quality running trainers and began to get a local following among fell runners in the NW Lakes.

The fell running shoes are incredibly light, well designed and well made... then someone wore a pair on an American soap and the 'brand' took off. Now they have a corner store on 5th Avenue in New York... the prices even in the Factory shop are now around £50 to £150 ... MrsA_T got a pair of their general purpose trainers for £5 out of their Sale bucket 3 years ago.... says they're the comfiest shoes she's ever had. Now what does she do?

 

[martint235]

Since my late teens / early twenties my style or taste hasn't really altered that much, everyday comfort with surfer / skate type brands and I can usually be found in shorts and a t-shirt when not in work or on a night out. I do own a few Peter Werth shirts, and a couple of pairs of 501s which I keep for best but I'm definitely comfort over looks.

This is where being tall helps. I'm completely immune to the different brands of jeans as the only reasonable brand for me is called "& Brand". I doubt they'll ever be a hit on the high street.

 

[swee'pea99]

And this in the bleedin' guardian! Week after week...

Call me a grumpy old fart, but AFAIC, anyone who spends 300 notes on a sweater has, as my dear daughter would put it, 'issues'.

 

[mark st1]

You cant buy style you might get mucky like me and be born with it

 

[mark st1]

Scummy Mummy style anything that hides the dubious stains gets a from me, I sometimes adopt the dragged through a hedge backwards look for a bit of variation.

That sort of sentence belongs on a completely different website.

 

[andylaw79]

And this in the bleedin' guardian! Week after week...

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Call me a grumpy old fart, but AFAIC, anyone who spends 300 notes on a sweater has, as my dear daughter would put it, 'issues'.

Grumpy Old Fart But I see your point. I'd never spend that on clothes. But, horses for courses and live and let live and all.

 

[andylaw79]

This is where being tall helps. I'm completely immune to the different brands of jeans as the only reasonable brand for me is called "& Brand". I doubt they'll ever be a hit on the high street.

Believe me, if they weren't in the sales I wouldn't have got them. They are comfortable though. Being bought in the sales is true of most of the branded stuff I own. I am so last season.

 

[Marshmallow_Fluff]

Not sure about "fashion" but I think everybody has a personal "style" and that is always been shaped in order to suit the individual, regardless if the drive is practicality or mere vanity...

I like to keep myself well groomed and I can be very particular. I only wear black (on and off bike) which can be assorted by hints of white or grey, if and when I feel adventurous enough.. I have a soft spot for All Saints in clothing and for Christian Louboutin in shoes. That said, I find plenty that take my fancy and are more agreeable with my bank account.

 

[Crackle]

I might be interested in style if I didn't manage to look scruffy in everything I wear. Some people have style, others of us, repel it.

 

[Fnaar]

Interested in style, yes, but not fashion (v different imho)
However, I don't 'carry' stylish clothes very well*. Also, when the kids came along, all the money seemed to go on them, and I've never quite recovered from that. And then I became more interested in comfort over style.

*things that look very good on others look terrible on me. I once borrowed a stylish and expensive mac off my brother in order to attend an interview. It looked great on him, really good. I looked like Frank Spencer (sans beret).

 

[Fnaar]

Interested in style, yes, but not fashion (v different imho)
However, I don't 'carry' stylish clothes very well*. *things that look very good on others look terrible on me. I once borrowed a stylish and expensive mac off my brother in order to attend an interview. It looked great on him, really good. I looked like Frank Spencer (sans beret).

Also, if I tried to dress like a Peaky Blinder, I'd end up looking like Norman 'Cleggy' Clegg from Last of the Summer Wine.

 

[postman]

I could never afford fashion items,and being a long thin stick insect type of person ,i could never find cheap clothes to fit.Once i got working i bought three suits a year all made to measure.John Collier,,the window to watch,was their slogan.