Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 6:47 AM, wildlightphoto at earthlink.net <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: > No comments on the prices of the clothes?!? Partly this is because clothes cost a lot more here and in NZ. A pair of Levis in Australia, normal retail price, is over $AU100. The Keen's shoes that are $AU220 here are $US99 in the US. It's pretty consistent - a small market (VERY small in NZ), in a mostly fairly wealthy country. Icebreaker is expensive gear, but it is incredibly soft, incredibly warm merino wool. You can wear it for a couple of weeks and it doesn't get smelly, it keeps you warm when you're wet and lasts longer than polypropylene thermals if you can keep bugs and other things that might eat it away from it [hard in the tropics]. I am wearing an icebreaker right now, under a goretex shell, just as I am about to go outside to work on some tanks where I'm growing algae. It's about 10C but blowing 35-50 km/h and I'll be wet. People in the US don't appreciate how cheap most consumer goods are there. Marty