Would you pay ~£900 for a Canada Goose coat?

[owl]

I'm seeing more and more of these around

https://www.jackets.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Parka-Jacket-Men-Black.jpeg

and every time I do I have an uncontrollable urge to just point and shout thousand pound coat repeatedly.
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[arry]

For a coat - yes. For that coat - no.

With that said, it'd have to be a pretty damn special coat for that sort of cash.

[owl]

I know people obviously pay upwards of £1000 on motorcycle jackets, but generally not parkas

Their marketing department must be laughing.

It's ridiculous how popular these are.
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[arry]

[DRZ4Hunned]

I wanted a Patagonia jacket, but couldn't bring myself to paying £180 for it, so no, I wouldn't pay a grand for it.
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[yen_powell]

Only if it came with a pocket of cash, about £850.
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[pepperami]

I`d go down to the Army surplus store and buy a Parka style coat and keep the £950 difference in my pocket
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[Beehive Bedlam]

Everything I own clothes wise (which isnt a lot) bar work ones is motorcycle clothing.

To answer your question no I would not. I hate fashion.

[Derivative]

I wouldn't spend a quid on it unless with a view to resale. Labels are prole feed.

I would spend 950 (or perhaps 5-700) on a coat that lasted me a lifetime and looked like new in 50 years. I don't think such a thing exists. When I get fat it won't fit any more either. hm.

The overcoat I spent 100 quid on ~5 years ago is holding up fairly well, but nothing is going to stay shiny forever unless your life is made up of going from taxi to dinner.

[owl]

They're supposedly very good coats, believe they were used in some artic exploration, but you could easily find something just as good for much less

Their methods of obtaining the coyote fur they use are also questionable. I see a lot of women wearing these and wonder if they realise the pain and suffering those animals went through sitting in those traps.

More money than sense
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[CaNsA]

Big Coat Forums?

[owl]

[hellkat]

I'd rather buy a decent crombie.
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[MattEMulsion]

I'm sure that I saw these on a TV program the other day. It was about fake items and there are plenty of fake Canada Goose coats on sale.
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[hellkat]

I suppose its better than SuperdryJPN or whatever the fuck that is, everybody and his dog were wearing until recently. That just looked shoddy.

Although to be honest, when I first saw this thread title, I immediately thought of GREY Goose, and not Canada Goose, and wondered why you would pay £900 to have a bottle of vodka advertised on your jacket.
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Not nearly as interesting in real life.

[dydey90]

I can't say I've ever noticed one.

Sounds like those horrific Ugg boots that were insanely popular and cost £200 a pair.
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[arry]

[Dave70]

[tatters]

Far too expenses for what you get, I`ve got a Helly Hansen Parker which is just as good and has the same extreme cold weather spec apart from the coyote fur on the hood for more than half the price of a Canada goose jacket. Keeps me warm when it gets down to -58c here.
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[tatters]

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I bought one of these when they were still in stock a couple of weeks ago. A bit like a poor mans Canadian Goose.

https://www.mandmdirect.com/01/details/KO2351/Kangaroo-Poo-Mens-Parka-Jacket-Black

For £20, I have to say that it's the warmest coat I've ever owned. It looks quite waterproof too.

https://resources.mandmdirect.com/Images/_default/k/o/2/ko2351_2_cloudzoom.jpg
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

For £900 I could clothe myself for the rest of my life. And have change.
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[RhynoCZ]

OP, don't you live in England where temperatures very rarely go below 5°C and snow is just as rare as the number of sunny days in the UK per year?

I'm not saying let's be too rational here, but let's just think about it, at least.
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[pepperami]

[Sun Wukong]

Hahahaha.

No.

I am currently living in the coldest capital city in the world, Astana, where the temperature gets down to minus 40 fairly regularly.

My coat cost 30 quid, probably off the back of a truck. Warm as fuck.

What the hell is wrong with people.

That said, lots of people here are walking round in $2000 fur coats. I was hat shopping yesterday, as you do, and found a hat for $2000 that looked and felt absolutely identical to ones I'd seen for 150 quid.

And I just got one made of polyster for a tenner, because fuck those herds of wild esters roaming the wilderness, taking our jobs.
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