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Archive for the ‘Daylight Robbery’ Category
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
For £705 / $1,102 we think we’d want the WHOLE sweater, not just the top half of it, and we don’t care if it IS knitted with unicorn hair.
You?
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
This top will cost you £215 / $336. A bargain at twice the price! Oh no, wait… it isn’t, really, is it? In fact, we’d venture to suggest that the Emperor is, once again, looking pretty much naked…
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
 Stuck-Together Daylight Robbery These criminals were reported to us by Robyn, who says: “Anyone else think that $380 is too much to pay for what is basically a sock attached to a foot bed? Anyone think calling this a “boot” is quite the stretch, dear Tobi? Because I do.”
We do too, Robyn. YOU ARE NOT ALONE! And we’re actually quite concerned about this, because where do we even start? It’s a sock stuck to a flip-flop. It’s a boot pretending to be a shoe. It’s a peep toe boot. It’s Daylight Robbery. It’s sock horror! It’s all these crimes of fashion, rolled into one, and you just never know where that kind of experiment will end, do you? A peep-toe harem pant attached to Crocs with a $1 million price tag, perhaps? The mind boggles.
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Even although we can’t claim to have ever found ourselves thinking, “Damn, if only someone would attach a flimsy organza peplum-type affair to an ordinary leather belt!”, we have no real quarrel with the appearance of this item. Not even in a stuck-together-clothes sense.
No, our quarrel – or rather, our confusion – is with the price. $445 for a belt? Seriously? Is the organza shot through with threads of gold, perhaps? Couldn’t you just, you know, attach a piece of fabric to ANY old belt, if you wanted this particular look? Or is there a particular reason why you’d need to pay $445 for this one? Your call, readers. Your call.
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
 OK. Just for the sake of argument, let’s assume there IS a reason you’d want to buy a pair of flimsy, sheer leggings (which, by the way, we’re going to refer to as “sheggings” from now on. We think you know why.). Actually, come to think of it, maybe there IS a reason you’d find yourself in need of such an item. Is there? And if so: what is it?
Whatever the reason, we’d probably want to apply our usual rule of thumb to this situation: never pay three figures for something we’d be almost guaranteed to put a finger through the second we tried to wear it. In fact, scratch that: never pay TWO figures for sheggings that would very soon be EX-sheggings once we got our careless little hands on them.
Of course, we’re clumsy. And cheap. What do you think, fashion jurors: are these Daylight Robbery, at £229.99 / $359? Tell us!
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
 This Balmain crocodile tail leather jacket costs $63,000.
For that much, we’d want to be able to LIVE in it. You?
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
How much would you give us for a pair of boots that look like this, readers?
How about $1,794? Does that sound good to you? No? But… but…they’re DESIGNER! We know they LOOK like someone just dug them out of the dumpster, but they are, in fact, brand, spanking new, and the product of a creative process so unique that they were deemed to be worth the best part of $2,000.
Either that or they’re made from unicorn skin.
We have to admit, though, if these boots were in front of us right now, we’d probably slip one of them on, and use it to kick ourselves hard for not coming up with this idea first. Seriously: imagine if you were able to convince people to spend $1,700 on a pair of old boots! Think of the money you could make from dumpster diving! Yes, if Augusta really are able to persuade people to part with that much money, for something that looks like this, then we feel we have to take our hats off to them. That’s the kind of persuasive power you really don’t want to mess with. We wonder if they’d be interested in joining the force?
Get the boots here.
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
 Let’s be clear about one thing here: these are gorgeous. Well, they are, aren’t they? They’re beautiful and luxurious, and exactly the kind of thing we’d like to have tucked away in our lingerie drawer for a special occasion. It would have to be a VERY special occasion, though, because these cost £739 / $1,195 for the set, and if we ever find ourselves handing over $1000 for a camisole and a pair of shorts, well, we hope someone will do us the kindness of taking our credit cards from us and refusing to return them until we appear to have come to our senses.
What about you, though, oh readers? Would you spend this much money on something like this, or do you feel it’s a clear-cut case of Daylight Robbery?
(Oh, and if the answer to that question was “Absolutely not!”, you can buy them both at Net-a-Porter.)
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Seriously, can you even IMAGINE paying £770/ $1,234 for something with the word MESH in its product name? Because we can’t. Ever had the experience of pulling on a new pair of tights, only to put your nails right through them, laddering them irreparably? Or been just about to leave the house when your dog/cat/child jumped onto your leg, wrecking another pair of stockings? That’s the kind of thing we’d fear if we were to go out in these. Well, that, public ridicule and Fashion Police arrest, obviously.
Daylight Robbery? Well, we’re willing to believe a lot of work went into the beading, which would certainly justify these costing more than your average pair of leggings. To take all that hard work, though, and attach it to what is essentially a pair of FISHNET TIGHTS – because come on, it totally is, isn’t it? – is just sheer madness, though. No? You don’t think so? You want to buy them? Head on over to Louisa Via Roma, then, and have your credit card at the ready!
Monday, December 21st, 2009
 They’re exactly the kind of thing you’d expect to find in a tacky souvenir store in a tourist town. You know, the kind of place selling shirts that read “FBI: Female Body Inspector”?
So why on EARTH are they selling for $925 and $1,010 respectively at Barney’s?
Oh. Because they have “Yohji Yamamoto” stamped on the waistband.
There’s officially no hope left for humanity.
[Thanks to Rafael for the report!]
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