@shahnm I never bought any of the overpriced shorts/swimshorts from back then. I looked at the stupid-priced uglier-than-hell cuts, and skipped the whole mess. There were additional reasons for me personally, mostly having to do with trying really hard to stay invisible wherever I went because of my experience of having been The Favorite Target back in school. Anytime I made the mistake of trying to fit in by wearing something that was considered “cool” on anyone else, somebody would go out of their way to humiliate me and ensure that I would regret the choice, sometimes destroying the item in the process, but always making damn sure I couldn’t actually enjoy wearing it.
@werehatrack Wow - that’s really awful. I wasn’t exactly free from being a target for those sorts of assholes either, but it sounds like you really had it rough.
I’d be surprised if I’ve ever spent as much as $10 on a pair of shorts. The shorts I wear are almost all cutoffs, and why not? Eventually jeans wear out at the knees, and cutoffs make great shorts.
I do have some non-cutoff shorts, but it’s been so long since I bought them, I bet the most I paid (before tax) was probably $9.99.
I don’t understand how my wife’s shorts have 1/4 of the material as my shorts but cost 4x the price. It’s like some inverse logarithmic graph or something. One day I’ll dust off the calculator and see if I can’t find the intercept point somewhere.
Researchers have learned that if product A costs 10% less than product B, men are more likely to buy product A.
Women on the other hand are more likely to buy product B, believing that if it costs more it’s probably a superior product.
Obviously, this is very generalized, not all men or women think the same way…
But businesses have learned that whereas with men, the cheaper they can make a product the more they will sell, with women they actually sell more units if they’re not the cheapest on the market… the cheapest option is viewed with suspicion.
As a result you get things like women’s razors costing more than men’s razors despite being essentially the same thing and women’s shampoo costing more than men’s… Etc.
@OnionSoup@show_the_maw, most women I know have switched to men’s razors.
Obviously plenty of women still pay more for the pretty pastel ones though because they’re still on the market.
I need to buy shorts but I’m not buying any of these daisy duke/booty shorts they have right now and have my ass hang out. And I refuse to the grandma one that come down to my knees.
Non-athletic bottoms make it into the “I’m going to get something nicer so it looks good and lasts a while” category. For shorts, it’s mostly linen or poly/tech fabric for the heat. I buy on sale, so the highest there has probably been around $35.
But I got a mid-range pair of biking shorts and spent $60, so I guess that’s the actual answer.
spent about $45 on some Dickies shorts, when i was under the false impression that the Dept i worked in was allowed to wear shorts… (I’m retail, during the summer months, select areas of the store are allowed to wear shorts…basically if your primary work zone is in the un-air-conditioned back room, or outside[ie: cart boys, and Garden center]… I’m in the Curbside Dept… we shop the orders, and take them to, and load them into the customer’s cars… our staging area is in the backroom… at that point i was mainly the takeout guy. all day in the backroom, and going outside.
but…no… we can’t wear shorts…)
Nope nope nope not giving you any idea about how high you can go with the price on a pair of shorts.
@Kidsandliz Ha! You think they’re fishing for price ideas?
@phendrick They are trying to trick us about that since the ranges don’t end in 99 cents.
$35 for normal shorts. $80 for bicycle shorts.
It was the 80s. One word: JAMS… A pair cost, in inflation adjusted dollars, $53,402.87.
Or something like that, to hear my dad carry on…
@shahnm For us in the 80’s it was OP. Still have a couple pair.
@detailer OP was for the preppier, more tasteful crowd. For the budding future Mehtizens to be though, it had to be Jams…
@shahnm Funny. We were stoners and hell raisers. How did I end up here?
@shahnm I never bought any of the overpriced shorts/swimshorts from back then. I looked at the stupid-priced uglier-than-hell cuts, and skipped the whole mess. There were additional reasons for me personally, mostly having to do with trying really hard to stay invisible wherever I went because of my experience of having been The Favorite Target back in school. Anytime I made the mistake of trying to fit in by wearing something that was considered “cool” on anyone else, somebody would go out of their way to humiliate me and ensure that I would regret the choice, sometimes destroying the item in the process, but always making damn sure I couldn’t actually enjoy wearing it.
@werehatrack Wow - that’s really awful. I wasn’t exactly free from being a target for those sorts of assholes either, but it sounds like you really had it rough.
I haven’t bought a pair in probably 30 or 40 years so I have no clue
I don’t know how much Santa pays.
1O bucks at the outlets
The linen ones from Costco that I’m wearing right now were $12. They’re comfortable!
@Kyeh Those are cute. Pity I don’t have a Costco card. I usually go to Sam’s.
I’m at the point in my life that I’m willing to pay more for quality. If the product looks or feels cheap then it’s not worth my money.
@kittykat9180 it kinds seems like you found your way to the wrong website
@geekahedron, I don’t buy clothes on this website.
I’d be surprised if I’ve ever spent as much as $10 on a pair of shorts. The shorts I wear are almost all cutoffs, and why not? Eventually jeans wear out at the knees, and cutoffs make great shorts.
I do have some non-cutoff shorts, but it’s been so long since I bought them, I bet the most I paid (before tax) was probably $9.99.
I don’t understand how my wife’s shorts have 1/4 of the material as my shorts but cost 4x the price. It’s like some inverse logarithmic graph or something. One day I’ll dust off the calculator and see if I can’t find the intercept point somewhere.
@show_the_maw, it’s the female tax. Everything cost more for women, even razors (Same razor as men’s but in a feminine pastel color).
@kittykat9180 @show_the_maw there’s science behind that.
Researchers have learned that if product A costs 10% less than product B, men are more likely to buy product A.
Women on the other hand are more likely to buy product B, believing that if it costs more it’s probably a superior product.
Obviously, this is very generalized, not all men or women think the same way…
But businesses have learned that whereas with men, the cheaper they can make a product the more they will sell, with women they actually sell more units if they’re not the cheapest on the market… the cheapest option is viewed with suspicion.
As a result you get things like women’s razors costing more than men’s razors despite being essentially the same thing and women’s shampoo costing more than men’s… Etc.
@OnionSoup @show_the_maw, most women I know have switched to men’s razors.
Obviously plenty of women still pay more for the pretty pastel ones though because they’re still on the market.
Usually, I’m all about snagging a good deal, so I keep it chill in the $10-19 range, Gotta look fly without breaking the bank
I need to buy shorts but I’m not buying any of these daisy duke/booty shorts they have right now and have my ass hang out. And I refuse to the grandma one that come down to my knees.
@Star2236 I’m on the verge of breaking out the sewing machines and the shears, and shortening some Goodwill pants to the length of shorts that I want.
Non-athletic bottoms make it into the “I’m going to get something nicer so it looks good and lasts a while” category. For shorts, it’s mostly linen or poly/tech fabric for the heat. I buy on sale, so the highest there has probably been around $35.
But I got a mid-range pair of biking shorts and spent $60, so I guess that’s the actual answer.
spent about $45 on some Dickies shorts, when i was under the false impression that the Dept i worked in was allowed to wear shorts… (I’m retail, during the summer months, select areas of the store are allowed to wear shorts…basically if your primary work zone is in the un-air-conditioned back room, or outside[ie: cart boys, and Garden center]… I’m in the Curbside Dept… we shop the orders, and take them to, and load them into the customer’s cars… our staging area is in the backroom… at that point i was mainly the takeout guy. all day in the backroom, and going outside.
but…no… we can’t wear shorts…)
@earlyre
Ugh, how mean and arbitrary.
I think $29