<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Hayden Fan @ Apr 4 2010, 04:44 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>You live in NYC, that should be nothing. When I was there, I hit the streets and the street hustlers were charging those kind of prices for stuff of even lesser quality. Hit up a shop like Saks 5th Avenue, or even the places in Grand Central Station. A 50 dollars t-shirt would be on the clearance rake.
But then again, if people demand this, and they can sell those t-shirts for that kind of money, the economy is not as bad as we are led to believe.
In NYC - $22.00 is about tops for a t shirt - unless you're in Saks Fifth Ave where
the wives of Wall St. crooks do their shopping. $47.00 for a t shirt is nothing to
people who think nothing of spending $400.00 for a pair of sneakers or $225.00
for a pair of shorts. But to the average fan - that's a ridiculous price. We have
beautiful 4-color hand-screened t shirts on high quality 100 cotton for my store
and we only charge $20.00 for them. I know what it cost to make t-shirts and
Rossi-Co. can't be paying more than $3.75 a shirt. That kind of mark-up to a
millionaire's company is absurd.
Re: street hustlers... well, I've never been hustled so I can't speak to that - but last
I recall hustlers are generally regarded as crooks.
Re: the economy - have you looked at unemployment figures lately?