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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in Any advice for building up a basic wardrobe? by twovests

This was definitely a good read :0 I don't have much to add because there's so much but it makes sense to try things on first.

Does it make sense to spend a lot of money on staples that should last a long time, if I don't know much about fabric/clothes? (I.e. clothes might shrink, or i might find I didn't get the right combination of kinds of fits, etc.)

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Moonside wrote

With fabrics you're kinda living in happy times as it's easy to research on the internet and the very basics are quite applicable in and of itself. You could just take two clothes made of different fibres and read on their differences and verify it through your senses.

I mean, this kind of a bottom up approach made clothes and fashion more legible to me at least.

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twovests OP wrote

This makes sense. I think I will buy some cheap staples to expand my warddrobe and replace it overtime with quality things.

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hollyhoppet wrote

Yeah what Moonside said. Also if you’re spending more than $15 on a blank T-shirt you’re probably spending too much lol. There is far less correlation between price and durability when it comes to apparel than I think anyone but corporations would like.

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twovests OP wrote

That makes sense. I recently looked into winter clothes, and there seems to be a lot of things that are costly because they're good, and things that are costly because they're fashionable. Like, I'm happy to spend $200 on boots that'll last me for many years and keep my feet warm and dry (that's a big upgrade for me here in New England).

But yeah I won't be spending $15 on a blank tshirt anytime soon x)

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hollyhoppet wrote

A good pair of leather boots will last a long time with proper care. If you don’t want leather for very understandable reasons, avoid anything that looks like fake leather as their cost tends to go into appearance rather than quality

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