Pricing of clothes

[Beebo]

My local army surplus shop is not going to re-open, a victim of Covid apparently

They are becoming very rare now.
There used to be one in most big towns.

 

[Deleted User]

Just imagine the outcry!

Fat-ist, thin-ist, short-ist, tall-ist etc. etc.

People would be jumping up and down shouting discrimination at every turn.

 

[Juan Kog]

Army surplus! Cheap and lasts years. 😁

🤔...... Army surplus camouflage Bibs-shorts . Make a change from plain black .

 

[Oldhippy]

58 combat trousers, fabulous things. Double lined, loads of pockets. Rare now but I buy them up when I see them. German para boots, circa 80's. So many hats!

 

[Oldhippy]

And that's why I live alone. 😂

 

[gbb]

58 combat trousers, fabulous things. Double lined, loads of pockets. Rare now but I buy them up when I see them. German para boots, circa 80's. So many hats!

I had a pair of Swiss pilots leather gloves, lightly fur lined. THE best gloves I ever had, soft supple leather, warm, looked ok and lasted for a good few up years despite being used every winter for commuting....all that for around £15 iirc.

 

[Milzy]

Aren't bikes usually the same price for different sizes? Maybe small people should ask for a discount.

Yeah I love to ride a bike 4 times too big. Heavier up hills but I get more material for my money.

 

[Beebo]

Yeah I love to ride a bike 4 times too big. Heavier up hills but I get more material for my money.

My best bike frame is 24k gold. Size XXL.

 

[si_c]

Which whilst being fair makes a complete mockery of charging if someone is 5kg over their baggage allowance.
I’m 30kg heavier than my wife but that’s not counted.

Just 30kg? I'm well over 40kg heavier than Mrs C. I did point out once to her that the clothes she took on a holiday were over half her body weight but that didn't go down particularly well.

 

[Accy cyclist]

We don’t charge heavier people more to fly.

It makes me slightly mad when someone twice my weight is allowed the same 'personal luggage' weight to carry onto the plane.🧐

 

[si_c]

It makes me slightly mad when someone twice my weight is allowed the same 'personal luggage' weight to carry onto the plane.🧐

It makes me mad when I don't get twice the luggage allowance of those half my size

 

[Drago]

Which whilst being fair makes a complete mockery of charging if someone is 5kg over their baggage allowance.
I’m 30kg heavier than my wife but that’s not counted.

But one can control ones baggage allowance, whereas I have no control over being a 6'4" caucasian mesomorph.

Army surplus! Cheap and lasts years. 😁

A man after my own heart. Army surprus, supplemented with occasional visits to charity shops and the garden centre. Top it off with a selection of battered camo baseball caps for that threadbare redneck look that zi do so well. Accy would gave the vapours at my attire if he ever met me!

 

[Fnaar]

Caucasian males are liable to be bigger than japanese females, that sort of thing.

Try telling that to my girlfriend, Giganta Watanabe

 

[DCLane]

Try telling that to my girlfriend, Giganta Watanabe

I presume she's also a Sumo wrestler? They'd need baggage for the Sumo kit.

 

[Hover Fly]

Why should the army have a surplus these days? In the days of post-war demobilisation, obviously they would. In the days of mass national service, maybe. But now, if they have a surplus, someone isn't managing things properly.

Lots of reasons. Some of it is deliberate, some makers produce extra for sale, others are changes in doctrine, the forces plan 10 years or more ahead so requirements can easily change. Some of the best kit is never seen as new and only sold when past further issue. Some items deteriorate in storage so are sold on while there is enough life left in them for a civvy to walk his dog for a year or two but would disintegrate overnight in service use.