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I agree about the direction they've taken, but not about the price. Over 30 years in the same job and I still make less than €12.50 an hour for a 32 hour week, yet I don't mind paying a higher price for a well made item of clothing that'll (hopefully) last. Most goods (especially food, electronics and clothing) are relatively cheaper than ever before.
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Over 30 years in the same job and I still make less than €12.50 an hour
You're doing it wrong 🙂
I don't mind paying a higher price for a well made item of clothing that'll (hopefully) last.
..yea I wouldn't mind either - alas the point I was trying to make is that their stuff became even more expensive, yet the quality went down.
Like: a lot of times instead of the (very sturdy / worth-the-money) G1000 fabric you now only get G1000 lite which doesn't last nearly as long.
I don't mean to bash on them for the sake of bashing, but to give you a really good example - their Kånken rucksack, a thin little thing that lasts about a year before developing holes and looking like shit, omnipresent on the back of hipsters all over Europe, is fucking £85.00 now.
And it's not made by well paid fairies in Finland but in Vietnam, by the way.
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Yes.
They were never cheap, but I think they changed from making very high quality garments for high-ish prices to making ok-quality garments for hipster prices.
Really do like the style though but €200 for a wind jacket is bonkers I'm sorry.