why are gucci shoes so expensive? ¤SweetVenus: When you're buying Italian shoes, you're often paying for quality (the craftsmanship and materials of Italian shoes are superb) but you're also paying for prestige and the name of the brand. However, that doesn't mean that Italian shoes are always a good buy. As good as Italian shoes may often look, often times Italian shoes are no more comfortable than the shoes made in the good old U.S.A. In fact, Italian shoes can be less comfortable depending on the shape and width of your foot and they are often much, much more expensive. Long time ago, the best leathers factories were in Italy, which is why the reputation still carries on (it's like perfumes and France, Russia and vodka). Today, technology has come a long way, but yes Italy still does produce very high quality leathers. Honestly, the reason why Italian leather is so expensive, is because brands exploit the phrase "Made in Italy," not because the Italians know something about crafting shoes, tanning leather, etc. that other people don't know today (well they may, I don't know). It's an image thing. Just because the shoes cost $300 doesn't mean it's all that it's cracked out to be (it better wash my dishes, and iron and fold my clothes if I'm gonna pay $300 for it, shoes touch the ground for goodness sake!). A pair of extremely similar styled shoes worth $200 less (or even more if you buy 'em on sale ) can boast of quality material and craftsmanship. Brand charge ridiculous prices because they know some gullible stupid person is dumb enough to pay that price. Like the previous entry, go by the individual craftsmanship rather than depend on where the product was made; although I would not completely disregard where the product was made because it can shed some light on the quality. you know, reputations are built somehow.  Kimberly: Yeah I don't know if I would ever be while to pay that much for shoes. I would be scared to wear them anywhere. Now a purse.........now we are talking. This is really good venus. Is this what your paper is going to be about?  $$LIKE A BOSS$$: i love the double G's Gucci is jus flat out swag an Gucci kush is one of the dopest dope i ever smoked Dawn: anyway. Buying gucci shoes is just an expensive way of saying im rich, OR im stupid enough to waste money on a pair of shoes that might break as easily as the ones for 10 dollars lmfao |