We have a winner. Hermès men's store on Madison Avenue has a T-shirt for sale made of crocodile for the shocking price of $91,500. This has to be a record.
Can you imagine wearing a crocodile T-shirt… Without seeing and touching personally, it seems like it would be hot, heavy, possibly slimy. Who am I to criticize fashion. To some, these may be the exact qualities they are looking for in an undergarment.
I have to get back to the price tag. $91,500. A good quality 100% cotton T-shirt weighs about 6 ounces. If the T-shirt were spun of gold thread, with the current price for gold bullion going for about $1,600, the shirt would only go for $9,600. In order to achieve the $91,500 price tag in gold, they T-shirt would have to be made of nearly 153 ounces of gold. That's a little over 25 pounds of gold.
For those who cannot picture 25 pounds, think of a one gallon plastic bottle of water. Each gallon of water is approximately 8 pounds. Pick up three of the gallons of water at the same time. Doable, sure. But, now walk around for 5 minutes, holding all three gallons of water. That's 25 pounds of gold. In today's prices, that's how much weight in gold you'd have to wear to equal a crocodile T-shirt.
If you were stupid rich, would you buy this crocodile T-shirt?
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