How to spot 🚩🚩🚩 when shopping trench coats

[Junes.dreams.uk_]

As a dressmaker I LOVE your videos, educating everyone on items well made is the sustainable way to go-> Reduces consumerism 👍

[DCo-gq]

Stitch length can be a design choice, longer stitches are more visible. Because of the low price point for this garment however I agree it was most likely a cost savings decision.

[BreezyLavender]

I really need to learn how to sew if I ever want quality clothing 😕

[santiagodelgado]

As a guy who loves overcoats and trench coats these videos are helpful 👌

[madeleinesalisbury]

As a seamstress those stitches just look decorative, there’s nothing wrong with them 🙂

[notreallybhakti]

I absolutely love your videos! If at all possible, do you think you could help find a few options that aren’t as pricey as some of the other good quality ones? Like $300 is a LOT for a student to spend on a coat. No matter how good quality :(
But I do want to start shopping sustainably. Baby steps tho!

[youraftermyrobotbee]

First mistake: assuming you can get a good quality trenchcoat new for $75. High price does not always correlate to high quality as you've often shown us on this channel (because we are in the rent-seeking, stage of late capitalism), but if it's priced that low, it's manufactured with flimsy materials, poor craftsmanship, sweatshop labor, or most likely all three. (You showed us the first two; the third can be taken as given.)

$75 is still a steal, if you can afford $750 with less messy button holes go for it.

[anyaalissa]

Maybe you’ve already done this but could you make a video about affordable trench coats that are good? Looking to get one but don’t exactly have Burberry money.

[c]

She is MY kind of shopper. I'm like this with handbags, makeup and skincare - they scam women with these too. The last 30 years have RUINED fashion. What people call good clothing now was only sold as junk in the gutters of america.

This is why thrift stores get cleaned out nowadays. Plain, simple clothing from the Millenium and older in the thrift stores is commonly sold as high end pret-a-porter in Saks, Nieman Markus, Bergdorf. etc.

Fast fashion is the equivalent of what you let your dogs and cats sleep on, and these younger folks just eat it up. These poor fashion simps cant even conceive of the fact that 40 years ago, only cotton, linen, wool, silk, cashmere, non-polyester denim, chantung, wool felt, etc. was the ONLY thing in people's closets. All pants, suits, trousers, blazers, jackets, coats were lined with natural fabrics, accessories almost exclusively were made of leather, suede, nubuck, etc.

Conservatism/billionaires and socioeconomic grifing over the decades have reduced modern society to living in one giant "soviet" cesspool of mediocrity, ironically because of the very same conservatives that used to denounce this.

Republican conservatism=soviet living for the common man. When your clothing, food, education, domestic cars, cultural practices are garbage, and you want to know why, realize this-america=the old soviet union.

[TheGalactica]

Looks like the classic zara trench. But my old ones have thick sturdy fabric that withstood a lot

[marijennb]

Love your videos!! I always watch them before buying clothes ❤

[lisbra]

The video I was waiting for! Along with good pieces recommendations, pleasee

[AbstractMindsThinkAlike]

The stitching looks fantastic though, very straight. I must just not know my stuff.

[BKME]

Heard “it’s almost trench coat season” and immediately got sad that summer is almost over 😂

[dianacamerini]

I think trench coats shall be (almost) a one-time purchase, they are always on fashion, so in my view it is worth investing some money for good quality stuff that last for decades rather than changing it every few years. I have one from Aspesi, bought 18 years ago, used regularly, really heard wearing and practical, even if it got damaged at some point it was so easy to repair it. Back then it was on the expensive side (400€ in Italy) but now I think same quality would cost 1000€

[nikitatavernitilitvynova]

I make my own clothes and own a thousand seam rippers. I recently had to seamrip a bunch of buttonholes for my brother's shirt I made him. And none of them came clean. I realized at first that the one I was using first was wack because it didn't pierce as much and was taking a lot of effort so I found another one. This one is much sharper as it came with my previous machine and still gave me fuzzy buttonholes because fabric will fray no matter what you do. And I can guarantee you I make a good quality product that's durable. I'm currently making myself a very similar shirt if not identical just in my size and the fabric I'm using frays a lot so it's inevitable for it to happen. For context I don't remember the exact ratios in the fabric but it's around 80% cotton and 20% linen. I buy most of my fabrics from a cheaper resell store that sells old stuff from more designer brands you've reviewed as well as precut pieces of fabrics from the same brands. I can guarantee this as I've seen plenty of times on the racks Max Mara or Max and Co liners or Max Mara fabric from their weekend line with the name all over. Including some nice pants on a mannequin and the piece of fabric being sold upstairs.

[daisybuchanan]

This actually looks pretty decent to me.

[CarolChillsCasually]

Thrift baby thrift! Got a londonfog trench at a thrift for $15 only one little stain that was easy to get out

[Chloe]

Not everyone can drop a few hundred for a coat. I had a bomber jacket from h & m and paid maybe $40. I’ve had it for about ten years now and it’s still going strong with very little wear. I picked this one up in black for $53 CAD. Wait for a sale. I also read reviews that said it’s not as thick as other trench coats so it doesn’t wrinkle easily. Pros and cons just like anything else.