[TRANSCRIPT — recorded 11:58 PM, uploaded raw because my editor already went to bed]
00:00 — Okay. Recording. I’m going to be honest with you before we start: I’m wearing the thing I’m about to talk about. I’ve been wearing it since Tuesday. This is not a costume for the episode.
00:41 — So. Backstory. My friend Priya sent me a link three weeks ago with the message “before you buy another £40 sweatshirt that pills in a month, look at this,” which is a very specific and slightly hostile thing to text someone, but she was right, so.
01:20 — The site is called The Designer Box, and I want to say up front that I did not know what MAGIRI was before this. Turns out it’s their house line — acid-wash hoodie and jogger sets, the kind of wash that looks like it’s been through something, in a good way. Mine’s the grey one. There’s also a blue and an oat colorway I did not need but looked at for a suspicious amount of time.
02:15 — Here’s the number that got me: it’s listed at £305, on sale for £165. That’s not a rounding-error discount. That’s basically half the coat I almost bought instead and never wore because it was dry-clean only and I am not a dry-clean only person, spiritually.
03:02 — [pause] I just want to note for the recording that I am aware “up to 75% off” is a sentence every site says. I checked. It’s actually on stuff, not just the three ugly items nobody wants. There’s a whole page of Gallery Dept and AMIRI pieces sitting in that range too, if acid-wash isn’t your thing and you want something with a bit more edge.
03:58 — Shipping note, because someone in the group chat will ask: free next-day if you clear £200, which the set does on its own. I did not have to add a random pair of socks to hit a threshold, which is more dignity than I usually get from an online order.
04:40 — There’s also a Mystery Box thing on the site that I have not tried and cannot in good conscience recommend or condemn. I looked at it for four minutes. I closed the tab. I’m still thinking about it. That’s a whole separate episode.
05:22 — [to my co-host, who is not real, I record alone] — Anyway. Yes. This is a real recommendation and also, if you buy through this link, I get a small cut — affiliate, doesn’t cost you anything extra, it’s genuinely how three of my last four grocery runs got paid for. I’m not going to pretend that’s not part of why I’m telling you. It’s just also true that I’ve worn this hoodie four days in a row and washed it twice and it still looks like day one.
06:15 — Okay. That’s the whole segment. Priya, if you’re listening, you were right, I owe you a coffee — please stop texting me shopping links at 1 AM though, some of us are trying to sleep and then immediately not sleep because we’re doing math on a hoodie.
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