See I never get this whole thing where you buy something to last you 100 years or to hand down to your kids or something. I get sick of most items of clothing and accessories within about 5 years or so, then they break from use and it gives me a good reason to buy a new thing. It's been working pretty well for me so far.
I used to buy $100 shoes for the office. They'd die in a few years, I'd buy new ones, repeat. This time around I bought a $300 pair of shoes and they lasted me a fortnight before the heels fell off entirely. Had to take them back and the guy gave me lip about "walking funny". Fuck you, the heels fell off. He put new ones on and I got some non-slip tread on the soles because they were leather soled, but now it's a couple years later and they push out to one side and squeak and I'm kind of getting sick of them and want to buy a new pair anyway. For the same amount of money I could have bought 2 or 3 different pair of the cheap ones and rotated through instead and probably have come out of it better off.
Fashion thread, I'm looking to make my work wardrobe a bit more interesting. At the moment I have 3 pair work trousers - one plain black, one black with pinstripes, one black with very subtle stripes. Bor-ang. Probably going to get some nice grey trousers and not sure about kind of chocolate brown ones. I've seen some people pull it off, but I am not sure if I am that kind of person.
Next is to get some darker wintery business shirts, as the ones I have now are all lighter. A few ones with stripes, a couple with a grid pattern, a couple of plain, but they are all white-based at the moment. Again, kind of boring. Want to get some with black, brown or dark blue as a base. Should go with the grey trousers alright.
And finally I want a couple new pairs of shoes. I want a pair of dark brown shoes, but if I only get one pair of these I know I'll want to wear them all the time, so I'm thinking I should also get a new black pair at the same time.
Anyone have any suggestions based on that general outline for combinations that'd work well together? Looking to have a few in mind when I go out to buy so I'm not just generally walking about looking at every shirt in the place as per usual.