Golf you lost all your clothes in your wardrobe, how much would it cost you to replace ?

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Thinkkng say something awful happened like you lost them in a fire or the airline lost all your luggage etc

I'm not sure, I've only recently moved to my current country of residence (a 30kg suitcase) but I have been buying quite a lot in the sales, and 2 Nine West handbags. I'm going to have a think about it and try to tot it up.

Golf?

I don’t know but probably quite a lot. Most of it is mid range high street with a few expensive handbags, couple of nice coats, good shoes and a few formal wear items thrown in. Most of my knitwear is cashmere or good merino (anything else makes me sweat or itch like mad), so it’d soon add up. It’d probably be in the region of £12-£15k which looks like utter madness written down but I’ve had a lot of it for years and years.

I don't know what I'd do as there is hardly anything to suit me new and also prices are rising and quality dropping. The value of my current wardrobe is about £2.5k. I don't really buy expensive stuff but it all adds up.

More than I would be able to afford. I usually make do with a mixture of M&S and Primark, plus some things on Amazon.

A single pair of bog standard Sloggis a day means ninety quid for a week.

Thirty five quid per bra - £245

Twenty quid for socks.

Seven tops, seven bottoms at twenty quid each is £280.

Three jumpers would be £60.

One coat - £60

Two pairs of shoes - £100

2 nighties/pyjamas - £40

Then there would be the other things you need, such as fitness gear, sports bras, tops, specific work things such as a couple of blazers, tights, stuff that could be trashed for cleaning, things for winter or rain, hats, scarves, gloves, extra layers - the cost of clothing is very high when you realise what you actually need.

If I had insurance I would probably be quite happy to burn the lot and start again! As a result of covid and two pregnancies and a baby in the last two years, I have a load of work wear I probably won’t need, plus lots of things that are too small or fashions have moved on. I reckon my wardrobe is easily £2-3k including handbags but I’d happily trade it for a small capsules of high quality pieces for the same price!

Is this to replace everything we have or to replace enough to be functional. I could have a reasonably functional wardrobe that is much smaller than what I currently own. Certain items like bras, I only have as many as I need, but I have acquired more shoes over the last few decades than I would actually have to replace.

I added mine up for insurance purposes and was shocked it was about £20k

I think my insurance company would weep - and it's less than it used to be as it lost lots of weight so threw loads away, and I sew a lot too. But if you were including handbags and shoes it would be an absolute fortune. Over 20k, I'd guess

All my jumpers are cashmere (or hoodies 😂)
Pants are sloggi
Bras are nursing so stupidly ££
Jackets are leather.

I reckon clothes alone a couple of thousand. Plus my wardrobe has all my handbags so probably add on another £10k.

Like for like probably 20-30k. I have a LOT of clothes, shoes and hand bags.

Enough for a functional capsule wardrobe 2.5-3k or thereabouts I think.

I reckon I would probably come close to €20k as well. Professional role, lots of travel for work, a few formal evening items, elements of those I have grown out of (but hope to get back to), casual clothes for both warm summers and cold/wet winters, hiking/boating/sports/swim clothes (all being different sets of clothes), uniform for 1 youth organisation I am involved with, decent outerwear (formal for work, proper mountain/boating gear etc), a slight tendancy towards Imelda Marcos for shoes and handbags...

Jewellery is a separate claim altogether as DH spent a good while doing very long distance travelling and felt he needed to make it up to me.

In my defence, apart from the weight changes aspect, I tend to buy a lot of very good quality items from good brands in classical styles in the sales and wear them for years and years, treat them well and often repair them a lot before giving up on them. I have a fairly well filled current wardrobe, partly to take pressure off the household management with needing lots of good workwear at short notice. And I need good gear for outdoors - both personally and with Scouts - to be able to cope with the conditions.

I should have said that apart from a lot of my clothes being a decade or older, I also get a lot of things in places like Decathlon, Uniqlo, Kildare Village or Banbridge outlets, M&S for jumpers, etc. Or on my travels, in Europe and the US especially. So while I have a few suits I spent a lot on, I have a lot of things I have spent far less on.

And if I was to need to replace my wardrobe, I would only get things my size, buying all at once would mean more coordination and bulk buying (find a basic shape that works and buy it in multiple colours - M&S jumpers and LandsEnd long sleeved tops for example, or work trousers in black, grey, navy and brown, maybe also pine green or burgundy - or that amazing suit with the jacket, trousers, skirt and dress all coordinated to work together or as separates).

But I would possibly also spend more as I would be shopping in a hurry, not necessarily in sales or while travelling or taking time to go to outlets. As I would probably have 101 other things to sort out more urgently.

Like someone else, I'd happily lose the lot if I could claim on insurance and start again. I'd buy less if I were starting again. I think between clothes and shoes it would be about £12-15,000. Probably about 10% of it gets regularly worn.

Interesting to see how much this would actually boat as the thought of one of my cases going misisng is something I worry about on every airplane journey i go on !

I only take older things that I wouldn't cry if I lost, whenever I'm on holiday

Wow - some of you must shop in high end stores to have wardrobes worth £10k to £20k.

My summer and winter wardrobe would not be more than £1.5k at a guess. I generally only buy sale items and shop lower end - H&M, River Island, Dorothy Perkins, Zara, Mango.

I rarely spend more than £50 per item - includes coats, all clothing and footwear. Off the top of my head, my pumps were £65 and leather jacket was £100 - these are the only items I own that I paid over £50 for.

Shoes are 5k alone.
Clothes, mixture of M Dutti, Cos, Zara and then some more expensive stuff. 8k
Cashmere jumpers 2k
Evening wear 3k
Coats, jackets. 2.5
Sports 600

Over 20k!

A lot of my clothes are old but great quailty, i wore a 14 year old silk blouse yesterday so it really is an investment wardrobe that i could not replace in one shot. It's taken years!

God and no bags in that either!