Replica costumes and contraversy

[Marc]

Seems the BBC is under the gun from a Scottish MP.

There's plan to manufacture replicas of the jacket worn the 11th Doctor to be sold for $500 each. But what's gotten up a few noses is that the Harris Tweed jackets are being made by a Canadian company that's getting the work done in China.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2011/05/26/nl-drwho-coat-526.html

Anyone know what a Harris Tweed jacket normally sells for?

If you have to pay $1000 a shot then I can sort of understand but if they can easily be made and sold for $500 then yes it's a bit of a slap in the face.

 

[Davros]

I guess I'll stick with my second and third Doctor costumes at those prices.

 

[Winterwind]

I just can't imagine paying $500 for tweed regardless of where it's made.

 

[DimesDan]

I just can't imagine paying $500 for tweed regardless of where it's made.

Yet I can.

 

[PorthosShadow]

I just can't imagine paying $500 for tweed regardless of where it's made.

I don't know, I can imagine quite a bit.

 

[Shatnertage]

I can definitely imagine it. I probably wouldn't do it myself, but I wouldn't spend $500 on a pair of shoes, which many people have no problem at all doing.

 

[Davros]

I can definitely imagine it. I probably wouldn't do it myself, but I wouldn't spend $500 on a pair of shoes, which many people have no problem at all doing.

Some people pay 500 dollars for a haircut.

 

[Saul]

I read this elsewhere. The replica Jacket is about 350 pounds. The original between 250-300 pounds.

 

[PorthosShadow]

This jacket had better come with pockets that are bigger on the inside.

 

[Sketcher]

I went to the thrift store and bought the jacket for $6

 

[Rosalind]

Anyone know what a Harris Tweed jacket normally sells for?

A quick google will get you to:

http://www.harristweedhebrides.com/...all-categories/menswear/harris-bomber-jacket/

£ 340.00 each, roughly $500?

It's not the same thing, but it's a Harris Tweed jacket.

Or a Harris Tweet suit, which is closer to the doctor's jacket:

http://www.harristweedhebrides.com/...-categories/menswear/deryck-walker-blue-suit/

£ 580.00 each.

 

[Winterwind]

I went to the thrift store and bought the jacket for $6

Indeed. Which is why I can't imagine paying $500 for one. They're a dime a dozen in thrift shops here. And most men's clothing stores don't even carry tweed these days. At least not in my city.

 

[chardman]

Sorry, but why would you pay that much for an off-the-rack Chinese knock-off when you can get you can get an honest-to-god real Harris tweed, tailor-made to order, for about the same price?

 

[Marc]

Sorry, but why would you pay that much for an off-the-rack Chinese knock-off when you can get you can get an honest-to-god real Harris tweed, tailor-made to order, for about the same price?

depends if the real thing is the same as the jacket worn by the Doctor (which was appaerently made on/by Saville Row) iow is Smith's costume a genuine design or a custom job.

 

[chardman]

Not to be a prick about it, but:

depends if the real thing is the same as the jacket worn by the Doctor

What part of "made to order" is it that you don't understand?

(which was appaerently made on/by Saville Row)

Well, unless it was actually made on Saville Row by Harris Tweed, then it isn't really a Harris Tweed, now is it? Are you suggesting that they're lying when they say it is?

The point is that a real Harris Tweed, made to order (as much like or unlike the Doctor's as you desire) can be had, tailor made, for around the same price as one of these (most likely polyester-rich) generic fit, off-the-rack Chinese replicas.

I know which I'd opt for.

 

[Marc]

Not to be a prick about it, but:

depends if the real thing is the same as the jacket worn by the Doctor

What part of "made to order" is it that you don't understand?

(which was appaerently made on/by Saville Row)

Well, unless it was actually made on Saville Row by Harris Tweed, then it isn't really a Harris Tweed, now is it? Are you suggesting that they're lying when they say it is?

The point is that a real Harris Tweed, made to order (as much like or unlike the Doctor's as you desire) can be had, tailor made, for around the same price as one of these (most likely polyester-rich) generic fit, off-the-rack Chinese replicas.

I know which I'd opt for.

Not being familiar with tweed jackets - Harris or otherwise I wasn't sure if the Doctor's jacket is actually one of their product lines, looks like one of their product lines or simply shares the same material.

Nwo they may do custom, one offs for a few hundred dollars but again I'm not familair with their poducts and merely going by what was in the article.

 

[arch101]

[/QUOTE]Some people pay 500 dollars for a haircut.[/QUOTE]

Ah, yes. That would be my Senator, John F(ing) Kerry. Used to know a girl who worked at the Newbury Street salon where he had it done.

As for the jacket, I'm glad that many years ago I had my Mum sew me my 12 foot scarf for just the cost of materials. That's pretty reasonable.