I’ve been really bothered between Tuesday and Thursday.
First it was the outrageously expensive – yes , beautiful quality, but ridiculously priced kitchen-ware in a shop in St Albans. Of course, if it was a reasonable price it would be jolly nice to have. But there was something strange about functional things costing the earth.
Secondly, I happened to walk past Paul Smith in St Albans this morning. What first caught the eye was a crazily priced wash bag. A wash bag!!? Then my eyes followed the price tags of suites and shirts. I’m sure, if you really wanted to, you get shirts much more expensive than round about £200.
Here’s a PS shirt at the snatch-price of £155.
And here’s the rationale behind the price:
Folk - Rounded Elbow Patch, mens navy brushed cotton shirt with a corozo nut button front. The shirt also features a Folk square hem insert, darted, curved elbow patches and panelled rear yoke - From the handcrafted, aesthetic of Folk Menswear. 100% Cotton
Right next to Paul Smith in St Albans is a charity shop – I walked out there, 10 minutes later, with an £8 PAUL SMITH shirt for Gordon – retail happiness is…….!
Here are 2 stocking-fillers…..especially for you!
John Lennon “Home” T-shirt – $16,400
They say the clothes make the man. That’s probably less true today than when you could tell a man’s occupation by the hat he wore, but if it’s true of anything then it’s true of the world’s most expensive shirt.
Swedish shirt-making company Eton, celebrating their 80th birthday, created this shirt out of the finest Egyptian cotton. Of course, it couldn’t be the most expensive shirt in the world without a few diamonds. Both the studs and the cufflinks are encrusted with diamonds—white diamonds on the cufflinks and colored diamonds on the studs. Hang onto your collars……….for the price-tag:
The most expensive shirt is valued at £23,000 (over $45,000).
So………is it all wrong for Christians to be rich? Hear John Piper (5 minutes and 18 seconds) on "What is the right way to be rich?".
