Paying more for your Doll's clothing than your own....

I work everyday so my clothing for myself consists of uniform and then a few things for my one day off. So I figure the money I'd spend on myself if I were 'normal' I can spend on the girls
I don't grumble at the price of doll clothes as long as the quality matches the amount i'm paying!

 

I definitely spend more on my dolls for clothing than myself and they definitely wear nicer stuff. But, I'm okay with this. I've never been one to dress up, and I'd much rather buy my dolls some nice clothes and stare at them in those outfits, not stare at myself in an equally nice outfit. I am a T-shirt and jeans sort of girl.

 

I wear scrubs for work. They are cheap. My shoes are pricey. Mostly I make doll clothes..but I dont really care how much the fabric costs. I want to buy a nice SD size trench coat. Its easier for me somehow to spend on my dolls. I dont care enough about my own day to day clothes.

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I try not to. I mean, I love my doll, but I am a human and she is an object . It has to be a really perfect and amazing clothing to make me buy it way too expensive.

 

I quickly realized that most doll clothes are more expensive than I would ever pay for my own so now I've got a weird/skewed sense of what's okay for a price. I don't entirely mind it because I know I can make clothes for them myself and if I desperately want a certain outfit for my dolls, I'll pay for it.

 

I don't have much variety when it comes to my closet, but I guess my clothes can get fairly expensive (though I usually do wardrobe hauls once a year, so of course it gets expensive when it's all at once). I have not bought any clothing for my doll yet, but what I have been looking at and wanting to buy is definitely more than what I would probably end up spending on myself. Though I do want to keep clothing costs down for my dolls and will attempt to make clothes or just keep a limited wardrobe for them. x'D I have my needs too and I like clothes shopping for myself to a fair extent.

 

My dolls only wear clothes that I make, but they definitely have significantly more shoes than I do. MUCH more!

 

I own a couple of Lolita brand dress like BABY, IW, AP... So most of my clothes are just a little more expensive than my dolls' outfits. However all my girls are also in Lolita style clothes so their clothes cost my a fortune as well...Plus wigs, eyes, and shoes, they all add up the value. I'd say I've spend pretty much the same amount on my dolls.

 

I do find it annoying, however the doll clothing is all handmade and the fabric is usually a great quality. When we buy clothing for ourselves it is mass produced (most likely in China) and the fabric is usually very thin unless you are a fashion enthusiast. If you find handmade clothing in our sizes you'll find it is quite pricey as well.

 

Ever try to sew a detailed piece on such a small scale? It's not easy! I don't mind dropping a load of cash on a designer dress set. They come with lots of pieces that can be mixed & matched, and they hold up well. I don't spend so much on my own clothes as I mostly wear jeans & t shirts, but I do buy pricy shoes and maybe one or two fancy, expensive pieces a year for me to wear. You really do get what you pay for!

 

The individual pieces cost about the same, but overall of course I spend much more on myself because of the quantity of clothing, clothing for different weather, clothing for different occasions, and so on - whereas the doll gets a much more limited wardrobe that I will only add to on my whim.

The doll clothing prices in general seem quite fair to me. It's not a mass-produced item, it's an artisan's piece. Consider how much it would cost you for time and materials to create the same clothing in the same detail. Now consider how much practice it would take you to create the same clothing in the same detail at that level of quality. I know that if I were paying myself even half my salary per hour and adding in cost of materials, I'd end up at a cost of over $60 for a simple pair of doll jeans, and they would be crappy jeans that I would never pay for. I'm not even going to consider how much time it would take me to improve enough that my work is at a quality that I'm willing to buy - it's certainly more time than I'm willing to invest in the effort.

I do see sometimes clothing that is poor quality being sold at far over its value, but on the whole I think the doll clothes are a fair price range for what they are.

 

I mostly wear clothing from Target and Goodwill, with a few comic or band shirts that I get at conventions/Hot Topic/tours. I have a couple of pairs of "real" Levis (I mostly wear the Levi Authentics from Target), and that's about it. A pair of Chucks last me at least a year, maybe two. Once I live on my own, I won't spend that much on clothing, especially since I stopped growing. I'll occasionally spend more money on my own clothing if it's for cosplay, but that's a totally different story.

My dolls (well, currently single doll), on the other hand, seem to need far more clothing than I do. I think clothing is very reasonable. Think about a $50-$150 limited outfit set--a nice fancy costume one, like the DollHeart 2012 Alice in Wonderland ones, with a corset, skirt, petticoat, stockings, top, jacket, hat, etc. It would be reasonable to spend $300+ on the same outfit in human scale! It takes a lot of work to make such small clothing, and to make it look nice, with all the little finicky details.

So it's worth it, even if I don't always have the money for it. But the dolls are the same deal.

 

Like the above poster, I get most of my clothes from Target and Goodwill, and occasionally from the 'clearance' section of Kohl's, haha. But I don't need to buy clothes very often because I have a closet full of them. My dolls, on the other hand, only have a few items between them (I've been a bit lazy with buying for them). So I don't need any more clothes, but they certainly do.

I'd be perfectly willing to drop $50 or more on an outfit set or even a single piece of clothing for my dolls, provided I liked it well enough, but I would never pay $50 for a shirt or jeans for myself--just because there are so many cheaper alternatives with the same quality. The same doesn't go for doll clothes: they're small and harder to make, so there aren't $10 knockoffs of a $32 pair of jeans.

 

Per item I spend more on my dolls clothes than my own, but I buy more clothes for myself than my dolls. However there are exceptions, I figure skate and I've paid $300 for a dress before. The most expensive normal clothing item I own for myself is an $80 AllSaints shirt, but this was a bit of a wild venture for me! Everything else is from cheap places like Primark. I'll only pay a higher price on things which are either: hand-made, made to fit, good quality materials or if I've literally been drooling over them for weeks. Usually dolls clothes cover three of those so it's worth it.

 

I have not yet paid more for a doll outfit than what I would pay for an outfit for myself. Actually most of the doll clothing I really like seems to be reasonable considering the time and effort that is put into such a small garment. I would like to sew for my dolls eventually. Shoes - now they can be pricey! I do not buy expensive shoes for myself, so seeing prices for some doll shoes is a bit of a shock. However, doll shoes are so adorable and my dolls have plenty.

 

I rotate between spending :3
like ill go a month buying nothing but stuff for my doll and smaller accessories for myself then the next month ill buy my clothes.
i havent spent that much on clothing (i dont think so ) but I know that the last outfit I bought for my doll was like 73 dollars and few weeks after when i was shopping for summer stuff I only spent about 30 :p
at first I felt a little guilty but after I saw that I bought the very last one in stock I really didn't regret it.

ps I wish sadol made clothes for people.

 

I paid $300 for a pair of boots for myself last year. That's more than some of my actual dolls are worth, let alone any item of clothing. I do not shop for my clothing at Wal-Mart unless it's something basic like underpants or PJs. I have a lot of dolls and they have a lot of clothes, but I really don't like paying more per piece for their clothes than I do for my own. I have a few "expensive" doll clothing items, but generally speaking, most of the things I buy for them are reasonably cheap.

 

I'm on a fixed budget (yep, fixed income uni student, in this hobby - oddly enough I wasn't in the same situation when I got into the hobby!) and so my clothes, and my doll clothes, need to be as inexpensive as possible. I sew most of my girls clothes, so that helps! My tinies however (two pukifee and a pukipuki) don't get a lot of new clothes cause I am just not so great at sewing their tiny sizes!

 

Yea, I'm guilty of that.......I have spent more money on my dolls clothes than I do on myself at times and it is surprising to myself as well, but the thing is I have more clothes than my dolls and go shopping for clothes more often than I do for them so I guess it isn't as bad XD;;;

 

Yeah I would say my dolls have nicer clothes then I do. I would never dream of spending that kind of money on clothes for myself..... wow- when I read this back to myself it really make me think.