Clothing Inequality

[Lancer]

I wear Faded Glory canvas shirts I bought at WalMart for $12 each because they last forever. I still have canvas shirts I bought at GI Joes in 1990. Women's clothes aren't supposed to last, they're supposed to entise. Must be spendy.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Agathon
In a previous incarnation I sold menswear. The people at our company told me (in 1991) that in NZ about 8% of money spent on clothes is spent on childrens' clothing. About another 3% is spent on menswear. The rest is spent on women's clothing.

So that means that either women vastly outspend men on clothing, or there are a vast number of closet transvestites in New Zealand.

If it were anyplace but New Zealand [or perhaps Wales] I'd bet the former.

[:) Smiley]

Originally posted by Agathon
In a previous incarnation I sold menswear. The people at our company told me (in 1991) that in NZ about 8% of money spent on clothes is spent on childrens' clothing. About another 3% is spent on menswear. The rest is spent on women's clothing.

So that means that either women vastly outspend men on clothing, or there are a vast number of closet transvestites in New Zealand.

The former is definitely true- There was a woman living in my building who had more clothing than the other 20 people combined. Her wardrobe (and this s only the part she'd brought to college) packed a 12-foot closet, breaking a 4 cm wooden closet rod.

[bipolarbear]

if it was acceptable I'd totally wear heels everywhere.

[Ted Striker]

Guys' fashions never really change, so we can get away with buying something and wearing it for 10 years. Women's clothes are sooo trendy, they have to buy new stuff every year, or even every season, and alot of their clothes will looked dated if they don't.

[Ted Striker]

Just don't be wearing the same drawas for 10 years in a row you sickos.

[Urban Ranger]

Re: Clothing Inequality

Originally posted by Sprayber
Any more examples of clothing inequality that I missed?

OTOH, a man can walk around the city wearing only a pair of shorts.

[DaShi]

Women can too.

[Solver]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
Guys' fashions never really change, so we can get away with buying something and wearing it for 10 years. Women's clothes are sooo trendy, they have to buy new stuff every year, or even every season, and alot of their clothes will looked dated if they don't.

One of the best things about being a guy. You can wear the same shoes which you wore to uni 10 years ago, and you can spend four summers in the same pair of jeans .

[The Vagabond]

Why are men not allowed to wear skirts?? It would be so much more comfortable than any constraining underwear.

Scotland

[CerberusIV]

The real male/female inequality is in changing size. Me, I've been buying 36/36 jeans and XL T-shirts for over a decade - no problem, I can walk into a shop and pick what I want off the rail.

Women? Some of them change size over the course of the month so they need everything in 2 sizes. They look at a bar of chocolate and put on 5 lbs and need a bigger dress size. Don't even think about what pregnancy does.

The real gender inequality about clothes is in shopping attention span. Mine is about 5 minutes. Hers is about 3 hours. We do go shopping together but I tend to wander off and look at other things a lot.

[DeathByTheSword]

women can and most at all time in my oppinion sleep in an to large shirt that was first wore by the man but she stole it...one of the sexiest things to wake up next to...


and to make it ontopic

but men cant do that with the strapless bra for example

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by CerberusIV
The real male/female inequality is in changing size. Me, I've been buying 36/36 jeans and XL T-shirts for over a decade - no problem, I can walk into a shop and pick what I want off the rail.

You can just walk in and pick 36/36 jeans -- no problem??? In my sad experience, anyone who needs xx/36 jeans has got a problem...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by JohnT
Actually, it's worse.

Womens clothes are shabbier than mens clothes, are nowhere near as durable, and comparable cuts of clothing cost a mimimum of 20% more for the womens variety than the mens.

So sez my wife, who does the clothes shopping around here.

Yep. And add to that the fact that dry cleaners will charge more for a woman's silk blouse than for a man's silk shirt. That one used to drive my wife nuts, especially since one of my shirts uses at least half again as much fabric as one of her blouses...

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by The Vagabond
Why are men not allowed to wear skirts??

Because they are way to feminine. You might as well wear panties.