Mudgie
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I've never understood the attraction of branded clothing.What a lot of people don't realise is that a fair portion of stuff sold at the designer outlets is made for the outlets. It is partly a marketing strategy for the companies to get people wearing their brands. For example, I have got Hugo Boss polo shirts from Terraces & some of the ones you get from the Hugo Boss outlets (for say £50) are inferior quality. One of the newspapers did a story on it a while back. They purchased a load of items from Bicester & then got the equivalent items from John Lewis & HoF etc. In nearly all cases the items from Bicester were of a lesser quality than the department stores. This proved they were manufacturing two grades of a product, one for main retail & a cheaper version for their outlets.