@Dudewhattheheck,
Interesting comment.
How many RMC products do you, Benj and Super collectively own?
What makes you sure that your attitude to RMC purchases and ownership is the same as Japanese customers?
How many Japanese have you surveyed regarding their attitudes towards owning RMC products?
Have you got a copy of the questionnaire I could look at please (my Japanese is pretty good)?
What was your sample size and how were people pre-selected?
I suspect (and forgive me if I'm wrong), that you have in fact conducted no survey of Japanese people at all, and are in fact projecting your own opinions, mixed with some of the sales pap store staff were able to give you in limited English when you were on holiday in Japan.
Sure, there must be some Japanese who are into the whole vintage look. I sometimes see even men wearing men's kimono that cost more than my wife's car out on a Sunday stroll.
But I suspect that the vast majority of customers are buying these things for one season (because some Japanese magazine or TV show said it was cool and featured a celeb in one) and then getting bored of the look and going on to the next thing, selling their jacket on an auction site or taking it to a 'recycle' shop.
Have a look at yahoo auctions japan. There are thousands of japanese flight jackets for sale at any one time, and they've all been worn for one season, so the seller wants the 'new' price.
As for Aero, well, they aren't off the rack like RMC, they are made to order, so...
Interesting comment.
How many RMC products do you, Benj and Super collectively own?
What makes you sure that your attitude to RMC purchases and ownership is the same as Japanese customers?
How many Japanese have you surveyed regarding their attitudes towards owning RMC products?
Have you got a copy of the questionnaire I could look at please (my Japanese is pretty good)?
What was your sample size and how were people pre-selected?
I suspect (and forgive me if I'm wrong), that you have in fact conducted no survey of Japanese people at all, and are in fact projecting your own opinions, mixed with some of the sales pap store staff were able to give you in limited English when you were on holiday in Japan.
Sure, there must be some Japanese who are into the whole vintage look. I sometimes see even men wearing men's kimono that cost more than my wife's car out on a Sunday stroll.
But I suspect that the vast majority of customers are buying these things for one season (because some Japanese magazine or TV show said it was cool and featured a celeb in one) and then getting bored of the look and going on to the next thing, selling their jacket on an auction site or taking it to a 'recycle' shop.
Have a look at yahoo auctions japan. There are thousands of japanese flight jackets for sale at any one time, and they've all been worn for one season, so the seller wants the 'new' price.
As for Aero, well, they aren't off the rack like RMC, they are made to order, so...