[Leica] An M on a tripod in a clothing ad

[benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)]

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