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originallambrettaman said:
Now there we can agree, I don't really know what Ben Sherman are playing about at, but their gear is poor nowadays.

There's also far less options for tailor made stuff now, though Hull does still have quite a cool tailor round the back of the old police station, called Cock Of The Walk...

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Who owns this place? I've seen it but but not seen it open. I will pop in.
 
Cityzen said:
The original G4 and G9s were made in this country and lasted far longer than later ones.
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They're still made in this country, in the same factory, the only issue now is that as a consequence they cost £340.00.

Cityzen said:
Some people seem surprised that cheap, disposable stuff made in sweatshops in Turkey, Pakistan etc are not as well made and long lasting as stuff made here for some reason.
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Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia and Bangladesh are where you go for sweatshops,Internationally speaking, Turkey is fairly expensive.
 
Kalman said:
I bought a pair of Dr Martens a couple of years ago. They were the the standard 1460 Crazy Horse ones. They were made in Vietnam I think. The soles lasted about 6 months and I didn’t even wear them every day. I returned them and got my money back. A few months later I noticed Dr Martens had a special ‘Made in England’ range which are crafted in their only remaining factory in Northampton. They were a bit more expensive but they are much better quality.

I don’t know how much it is to do with them being foreign-made but in the case of Dr Martens, if you have one range that are mass-produced on a large scale compared to a range that are more limited in a single factory, the latter are going to use better materials, have more attention and care for each pair of boots and generally be of better quality and more expensive. That goes for most things I think.
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originallambrettaman said:
The Made In England Dr Martens aren't great either, the leather is half the thickness is was even just fifteen years. If you want original quality Docs, then buy Solovair instead, they're the factory that originally made Dr Martens and they still make them exactly the same (bit more expensive, but definitely worth it) - https://uk.nps-solovair.com/?countrycode=GB
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I bought a pair of DM's in a Millet's closing down sale(original ox bloods) about 20 years ago,£25.Never got round to wearing them,still boxed,and as I was having a clear out recently I got my daughter to flog a load of stuff on some internet shop they use nowadays.Some bloke bought them (from memory £60).He got back in touch with my Daughter later that day..."Where did you get those boots?Have you got any more?, They're made in England jobs and you can't get them like this anymore"..."If you'd have advertised them as such, you'd have got a lot more for them".

Story of my life:emoticon-0138-think
 
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Ric Glasgow said:
I bought a pair of DM's in a Millet's closing down sale(original ox bloods) about 20 years ago,£25.Never got round to wearing them,still boxed,and as I was having a clear out recently I got my daughter to flog a load of stuff on some internet shop they use nowadays.Some bloke bought them (from memory £60).He got back in touch with my Daughter later that day..."Where did you get those boots?Have you got any more?, They're made in England jobs and you can't get them like this anymore"..."If you'd have advertised them as such, you'd have got a lot more for them".

Story of my life:emoticon-0138-think
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You could probably have got £200 for them.
 
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originallambrettaman said:
The Made In England Dr Martens aren't great either, the leather is half the thickness is was even just fifteen years. If you want original quality Docs, then buy Solovair instead, they're the factory that originally made Dr Martens and they still make them exactly the same (bit more expensive, but definitely worth it) - https://uk.nps-solovair.com/?countrycode=GB
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The Made in England Docs I’ve got now are nubuck and the leather is quite thin and flexible by design anyway. In fact, the nubuck is so flexible that they didn’t even need breaking-in. They were comfortable right out the box. I agree about Solovair though.
 
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originallambrettaman said:
They're still made in this country, in the same factory, the only issue now is that as a consequence they cost £340.00.



Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia and Bangladesh are where you go for sweatshops,Internationally speaking, Turkey is fairly expensive.
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Not compared to here.
 
TwoWrights said:
Oi, I'm a ****er and a twat, but have no one on ignore, and never will. For the cancel culture lot, that's a response to a post you can't see, yeah. :emoticon-0125-mmm:


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Putting someone on ignore isn’t cancel culture. It’s the equivalent of changing the channel on the TV.
 
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originallambrettaman said:
They're still made in this country, in the same factory, the only issue now is that as a consequence they cost £340.00.



Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Cambodia and Bangladesh are where you go for sweatshops,Internationally speaking, Turkey is fairly expensive.
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But good quality. I, like a lot of others wish we had hung on to that stuff. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Original, fishtail parkas are another thing people must regret chucking out.
 
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Kalman said:
Putting someone on ignore isn’t cancel culture. It’s the equivalent of changing the channel on the TV.
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Tripe, if I was watching channel 606 on TV I'd want access to every programme on there. That is all. :emoticon-0125-mmm:


The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
 
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Ric Glasgow said:
I bought a pair of DM's in a Millet's closing down sale(original ox bloods) about 20 years ago,£25.Never got round to wearing them,still boxed,and as I was having a clear out recently I got my daughter to flog a load of stuff on some internet shop they use nowadays.Some bloke bought them (from memory £60).He got back in touch with my Daughter later that day..."Where did you get those boots?Have you got any more?, They're made in England jobs and you can't get them like this anymore"..."If you'd have advertised them as such, you'd have got a lot more for them".

Story of my life:emoticon-0138-think
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Odd, mention of DM's and this came to mind regarding Ric. :emoticon-0103-cool:

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TwoWrights said:
Odd, mention of DM's and this came to mind regarding Ric. :emoticon-0103-cool:

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When I first kept reading on the internet about people complaining about people slipping into their DMs my first thought was don’t leave then lying around then, put them in the wardrobe.
 
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