I picked up one of those 'Golfing for Women' type magazines the other day and got to asking myself where these women actually live, who wear the golf attire shown in women's golf magazines? I have never seen women, not even the pros, wearing such expensive and flamboyant clothes.
It's easy to spend money kitting yourself out for golf: hats, sunglasses, gloves, shirts, shorts, socks, windbreakers and shoes all add up quickly, even if you shop at the sales. Then add in equipment, bag and cart and you have to play quite often to keep the "CPU" - cost per use down to an acceptable level.
One full-page glossy advertisement showed a beautiful young 'golfing lady' in really tiny hot-pants (like that's allowed on golfing greens!) that cost nearly $300, a golf shirt at almost $600, a jacket by Ralph Lauren at almost $200 and two-toned Utuser shoes costing $400 plus.
That totals about $1,500! I know that I could never hope to get the CPU on that outfit down to anywhere near a normal level in my golfing lifetime! Don't get me wrong - I love clothes and I really love shoes, but could never afford, nor even want, golf shoes or pants that cost as much as a lot of people's weekly wages.
Granted, you want comfy golfing shoes that don't look like a pair of clogs, but really, you can find cheaper and still fantastic golf shoes.
I have bought several really stylish golfing outfits, even though none of them are famous brand names. If I were to total up the cost of all of those articles of clothing, it would not add up to the price of a Tse golf shirt. Personally, I would rather have several trendy outfits than one that is priced way over-the-top.
If I were to wear a $1,500 set of golfing attire to play golf in, I would just be too worried about getting it grubby or perspiring in it to enjoy a decent round of golf.
It's easy to spend money kitting yourself out for golf: hats, sunglasses, gloves, shirts, shorts, socks, windbreakers and shoes all add up quickly, even if you shop at the sales. Then add in equipment, bag and cart and you have to play quite often to keep the "CPU" - cost per use down to an acceptable level.
One full-page glossy advertisement showed a beautiful young 'golfing lady' in really tiny hot-pants (like that's allowed on golfing greens!) that cost nearly $300, a golf shirt at almost $600, a jacket by Ralph Lauren at almost $200 and two-toned Utuser shoes costing $400 plus.
That totals about $1,500! I know that I could never hope to get the CPU on that outfit down to anywhere near a normal level in my golfing lifetime! Don't get me wrong - I love clothes and I really love shoes, but could never afford, nor even want, golf shoes or pants that cost as much as a lot of people's weekly wages.
Granted, you want comfy golfing shoes that don't look like a pair of clogs, but really, you can find cheaper and still fantastic golf shoes.
I have bought several really stylish golfing outfits, even though none of them are famous brand names. If I were to total up the cost of all of those articles of clothing, it would not add up to the price of a Tse golf shirt. Personally, I would rather have several trendy outfits than one that is priced way over-the-top.
If I were to wear a $1,500 set of golfing attire to play golf in, I would just be too worried about getting it grubby or perspiring in it to enjoy a decent round of golf.
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I agreed with points Dimas you mentioned in your post. No one likes to buy an expensivepairof shoes just for $400 to play golf. Let me tell you a few things. In marketing campaigns models wear golf accessories just for modeling. It does not cost them. Celebrities get these accessories from companies as they are working as brand ambassadors for these companies, it is still free for them. Now the main point of discussion is the need, I am not bounded to wear my gold sunglasses only in golf playground. There is no restriction that I cannot wear my golf pants outside the playground. I realise these clothingsitemesare of good colour quality and styles as companies spend time to make these clothing to look good on wearer. You can wear these at your casual workplace. Like if I had a good match of golf pants and top, I can play golf and after that without changing I can go to my shop, restaurant or any workplace I want to.
Last thing, for marketing best items has been used by companies but they have cheap cost collections to. So a company showing $400 shoes is also manufacturing golf shoes less than that 'tagged' price.