[partyboy]

Originally Posted by Arjuna

We used to go to India twice a year for our gift store. Indian clothes would cost about 20 rupees (maybe about $.65 now), and we'd bring them back to sell for $15.

I love how most Americans don't know the true price of products.

...it's the price of freedom, Arjuna

[Ajamil]

It's also the price of round trip tickets to India and taking five huge duffel bags loaded with shit through customs.

[TheMightyMcClaw]

Originally Posted by Arjuna

Stitching, quality of fabric, accuracy and style of cut...

Do these need to be said all the time? Why not realize MJS will always show top-end manufacturing, and just critique the styles and colors?

Exactly. It's a high end, top quality shirt that looks like an NES on the fritz.

[MEGA JESUS-SAMA]

Originally Posted by MrGalt

Sounds that way to me. Basically if we did the old blind test and took the label off the shirt, MJS hasn't explained to me how I would know the Krell shirt is a hundred dollars worth of shirt while something made in Indonesia is obviously a nothing but a Shamwow stapled into a crude approximation of a shirt-shape.

- Fabric sourcing, which also affects the thickness, feel, and longevity of the fabric.
- Stitch count/stronger stitching
- Single needle/slower, more accurate manufacturing methods
- Considerably more generous seam allowances.
- Better/more forward fit

I like how people will concede that some cars are made better than others, some people are more talented than others, and some food just tastes better than other food of the exact same type. But clothes? Nope, those are all the same. A off the rack suit from Kohl's is just as good as a bespoke piece from Saville Row. People are clearly only paying the Saville Row premium because of status.

Originally Posted by Kiko

That shirt prolly cost about three-fiddy to make.

At $45 these shirts are being sold roughly at cost.

[bob]

You are confusing wholesale price with cost of manufacture.