Perhaps the world's most expensive belt

[Frostbit]

Now watch the video at the end and please tell me WFT is supposed to happen with that clasp.

Personally I think a belt a woman couldn't figure out how to release might be a bad idea regardless the cost.

LINK

[scott]

Now watch the video at the end and please tell me WFT is supposed to happen with that clasp.

Personally I think a belt a woman couldn't figure out how to release might be a bad idea regardless the cost.

LINK

I think you're right.

WTF?

[Dallas]

Now watch the video at the end and please tell me WFT is supposed to happen with that clasp.

Personally I think a belt a woman couldn't figure out how to release might be a bad idea regardless the cost.

LINK

It's to calibrate waist size. I get how to undo it but it just seems... stupid.

~Dallas

[Gingersnap]

It's to calibrate waist size. I get how to undo it but it just seems... stupid.

~Dallas

Ditto that. I can appreciate extremely costly objects. I understand why a person would buy a $20,000 watch or pay $5,000 for wine or caviar.

I just don't "get" this object. The materials are costly and I'm sure the workmanship is exquisite but the object itself is pedestrian. This is like having a solid gold pitchfork.

In the end, it's just a low tech shit spreader.

[Norm dePlume]

There is no accoutrement more pedestrian than a pair of shoes, but shoes are a prime status symbol.

[Billy Jingo]

There is no accoutrement more pedestrian than a pair of shoes, but shoes are a prime status symbol.

I try to avoid such traps. I really do. I often scoff at status purchases and poke fun at friends who have Coach Purse Syndrome (it is a metaphor ... I will explain it, if you like).

But I may have succumbed to the marketing genius of a multinational corporation whose officers use the fruits of slave labor to pay $5000 an hour hookers to abuse them.

They found my weakness.






Ironically, I first saw them in a copy of Adbusters which hates Nike (Just Douche It).

[Adam]

There is no accoutrement more pedestrian than a pair of shoes,

I can't believe Bok let you slide on that one.

but shoes are a prime status symbol.

While it's certainly true that shoes are often a status symbol unto themselves, they do have ... ahem ... other purposes.

[Billy Jingo]

I can't believe Bok let you slide on that one.

Holy crap, I've become calloused to it.

[Norm dePlume]

I can't believe Bok let you slide on that one.

I meant to put a parathentical "literally" in there, but I couldn't decide where to put it.

While it's certainly true that shoes are often a status symbol unto themselves, they do have ... ahem ... other purposes.

I get that shoes protect your feet. And belts hold your pants up. But when you're going through rough country where your feet really need a lot of protection, you aren't going to reach for your $10,000 wingtips. Those are for status display.

[Frostbit]

But when you're going through rough country where your feet really need a lot of protection, you aren't going to reach for your $10,000 Wingtips

I would grab my Koflach's



Of course they do carry a bit of "status" among Mountain Hunters.

[Adam]

I get that shoes protect your feet. And belts hold your pants up. But when you're going through rough country where your feet really need a lot of protection, you aren't going to reach for your $10,000 wingtips. Those are for status display.

You can keep your rough terrain.

[phillygirl]

I try to avoid such traps. I really do. I often scoff at status purchases and poke fun at friends who have Coach Purse Syndrome (it is a metaphor ... I will explain it, if you like).

But I may have succumbed to the marketing genius of a multinational corporation whose officers use the fruits of slave labor to pay $5000 an hour hookers to abuse them.

They found my weakness.






Ironically, I first saw them in a copy of Adbusters which hates Nike (Just Douche It).

Apparently the Joker is now Shoeless Joeker.

[Norm dePlume]

You can keep your rough terrain.

Sometimes the terrain is too smooth and a hobble is required.

[Billy Jingo]

Apparently the Joker is now Shoeless Joeker.

No. It's much worse than that.

[scott]

You can keep your rough terrain.

I would have thought your surgeon told you to stop wearing those.