Analyst Wardrobe

Looking to buy a nice watch with my sign on bonus. Would like to spend up to £500, £1000 at a push. Prefer watches with a leather strap rather than metal. Any suggestions of watches/brands?

Looking to buy a nice watch with my sign on bonus. Would like to spend up to £500, £1000 at a push. Prefer watches with a leather strap rather than metal. Any suggestions of watches/brands?

MD Wardrobe (coverage banking).

5 suits - each a different style. 2 x Dark Grey, Navy, Light Grey, Pinstripe,

Over 100 shirts and ties, some monogrammed from early pretentious days. These day's pretty much stick to blue, pink and white shirts. All french cuff however.

Most days Brook's Brothers chinos with a polo shirt and occasionally a proper shirt. Perhaps a blazer in case there is a meeting.

MD Wardrobe (hedge fund sales)

All of the above but leave 5 suits, 5 shirts and 5 ties in wardrobe in office. Wear shorts and T shirt to office. Change for meetings.

I hardly ever go there personally, only at the beginning. A couple of bars in LKF and the same in Wan Chai.

Looking to buy a nice watch with my sign on bonus. Would like to spend up to £500, £1000 at a push. Prefer watches with a leather strap rather than metal. Any suggestions of watches/brands?

I spend ~£1k each on my suits (I obviously don't have them made on Savile Row, but there are plenty of good tailors around the country who charge much less for what is still very good bespoke), under £50 each for my shirts and ~£100 on my watch. Spending more on all would be pretty easy, but I doubt I'd get much better quality in terms of things I care about without spending vastly more - probably triple for the suits and shirts and 5-10 times more for the watch.

Where do you get your shirts?

Pink shirts are excellent for the money.

I'd say the exact opposite. Standard Pink shirts are no better than CT ones and significantly more expensive, and the luxury Pink ones (I've forgotten the label) are near enough Turnbull & Asser price without having quite that level of quality. They're nice shirts and I very much like the couple of Pink shirts I have, but they always seem a bit pricey to me compared to other Jermyn St. makers.

I'd say the exact opposite. Standard Pink shirts are no better than CT ones and significantly more expensive, and the luxury Pink ones (I've forgotten the label) are near enough Turnbull & Asser price without having quite that level of quality. They're nice shirts and I very much like the couple of Pink shirts I have, but they always seem a bit pricey to me compared to other Jermyn St. makers.

where would you recommend for shirts ~£100 then?

cheers

I was about to agree wholeheartedly with everything you said until I saw the bolded bit. I never get loafers. Fine if you're on holiday, but I'd never dream of wearing them to work. And tassels just make them so much worse, gives them an element of Gucci loafers.

I love C&J and Church's though, and having parents in Northampton I get them from the factories as well. The Church's Danube and C&J Rosemoor are my favourite shoes I own, and while the latter were still pretty pricey, the former were under £100 as they were the last of the line. Cheaney's also great for something a little more modern, as they manage to do some great little twists on classics (mostly made for other labels). Or John Lobb if you have the money, which sadly I don't.