return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 month agoWhat have you completely stopped buying because the price has gotten ridiculus?message-squaremessage-square442linkfedilinkarrow-up1294arrow-down11
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minus-squareSoulinyx@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down3·1 month agodeleted by creator
minus-squareremon@ani.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 month agoIt shouldn’t? That sounds quite reasonable … cheap even.
minus-squareAssassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down1·1 month agoYeah, $4 a pair for something you wear for hours a day seems pretty reasonable
minus-squarebedwyr@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoWhy do we even have forced laborers making out clothes in oppressive regimes like Bangladesh if we are going to pay 4 bucks a piece?
minus-squarepalordrolap@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 month agoBecause they’d be ten times the price if they were produced in a country that treats its workers better.
minus-squarebedwyr@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoNo, once they run out the manufacturers in the developed world, they raise prices. Jesus Christ.
minus-squareAskewLord@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoright? i pay like 10 bucks a piece and it’s not fancy stuff. though it lasts like 3-4 years a pair. i only buy like maybe 2-3 pieces of underwear a year.
minus-squareTollana1234567@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoi think the newer underwears are cheaply made, compared to how they were made decade ago.
minus-squareYurkshireLad@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoNo way I’m wrapping my jingly janglies in something I bought from the dollar store.
minus-squareCatoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoYou’re finding them for $21? I can’t find all cotton boxers for less than $10/pair
minus-squareCherry@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoThe recent episode of GB sewing bee had contestants making knickers out of jersey t-shirts they got 3 pairs per t-shirt. Plus some elastic and time of course. But you do also need a sewing machine however its a good machine for life.
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It shouldn’t? That sounds quite reasonable … cheap even.
Yeah, $4 a pair for something you wear for hours a day seems pretty reasonable
Why do we even have forced laborers making out clothes in oppressive regimes like Bangladesh if we are going to pay 4 bucks a piece?
Because they’d be ten times the price if they were produced in a country that treats its workers better.
No, once they run out the manufacturers in the developed world, they raise prices. Jesus Christ.
right? i pay like 10 bucks a piece and it’s not fancy stuff.
though it lasts like 3-4 years a pair. i only buy like maybe 2-3 pieces of underwear a year.
i think the newer underwears are cheaply made, compared to how they were made decade ago.
No way I’m wrapping my jingly janglies in something I bought from the dollar store.
So, commando, then?
You’re finding them for $21? I can’t find all cotton boxers for less than $10/pair
The recent episode of GB sewing bee had contestants making knickers out of jersey t-shirts they got 3 pairs per t-shirt. Plus some elastic and time of course. But you do also need a sewing machine however its a good machine for life.