Just how much is too much for Jeans?

[Crow-mo]

Diesel jeans retail for £75-120 ($180-270)some styles a little more if you go to your John lewis' or selfridges, so seriously, something that is made by Diesel for a company such as adidas, to double the price is ludicrous. Even evisu jeans (what you would probably call the equivalent) don't come close to this, IIRC they retail at about £120-150, or about $250 here. I did read however that they are going to/ are retailing in the UK from £130, so about $280, which whilst still a high price for jeans, is almost half what some styles here are retailing for, they are also retailing between $160-210 in the US. Yep blame it on the exhange .

dude,

only the lower end styles retail that low.

you don't recall correctly

ps. I'm not "blaming" anything. it's your whinge

 

[Southerntakeover]

guys you're missing the point.

diesel jeans are hand made from the best fabrics in italy, they are a designer luxury good. is $480 too much, of course it is. however, that's what they sell for in europe.
there are heavy foreign exchange implications involved too - A$480 has a very different level of earning power associated with it, than say the GBP£200+ they would sell for here.

Here a lot of people could spend that, if they really wanted too, and liked them enough; however the price, converted into $A, is relatively a much higher impost.

the price is just the conversion of what they sell for abroad, not a sense of nearly $500 worth of quality and value. though luxury goods do not have a linear relationship between price and quality anyway.

Trust you to bring a serious discussion on market economics into what was a harmless whinge about overpriced clothing

 

[Crow-mo]

Trust you to bring a serious discussion on market economics into what was a harmless whinge about overpriced clothing

my bad

 

[Mong]

guys you're missing the point.

diesel jeans are hand made from the best fabrics in italy, they are a designer luxury good. is $480 too much, of course it is. however, that's what they sell for in europe.

And some people here would be horrified to learn that Diesel is only classed as mid-range priced brand. You can spend thousands of dollars on jeans.