The 'Is the brand important to you' thread got me thinking. Does the amount you spend on your outfit affect your enjoyment? Does wearing a expensive messy outfit feel better than a cheap messy outfit? The most I've spent on myself is a new suit, shirt, jumper, tie, shoes worth £350 with a lot of food of which nothing survived, but a £50 suit and £10 shirt, jumper and tie does feel just as good.

Thoughts?

I don't personally have any correlation between enjoyment and cost of clothes. I can get pretty much an entire outfit from a well-known budget fashion retailer for £20-£25, including shoes and socks, and the fact that it was cheap doesn't make it any less fun if I'm, for example, playing in the mud in it. It might even be more fun in a way because there's no real stress with low-cost garments.

For me it's more about how well things fit and look. I've dressed models in cheap Primarni sportswear that looked utterly amazing before now. For myself I like to wear boilersuits or denim overalls to get messy in, and again, the price is less important than the feel and fit, though the denim overalls I bought in the US back in 2003, which were a bit more expensive than I'd usually spend, did prove to be really comfortable dry, fun and comfortable to wear into the mud, and very hard wearing - I still have them now, sadly I'm larger than I was but I've had larger female models wear them (overalls being unisex) and they still looked great, and I still have them.

The one thing I spent a lot of money on but don't wam in is a pair of Aigle wellies - they cost almost £200 but are among the most comfortable boots I've ever worn, and being neoprene lined they're nice and warm in the winter too. I swap those for cheaper basic wellies if I'm planning to get messy. The cheaper ones have more space for pouring things in too, so better for WAM use.

I'm quite a fashionista myself and I spend way too much on clothes. Along with this is that I get muddy and messy in all my clothes because I've been doing it for years and I can wash anything. I guess my most expensive items I get messy are 400$ boots, 500$ dress, 250$ cardigan, 350$ sweater, 250$ jeans, 500$ rain coat, 150$ watch. Also I wear jewelry which can range upwards to 1000$ or so.

All my items wash perfectly fine. I rarely ruin things and if I do it's after years of daily use and messes. "Dry clean only" is a scam and I can wash almost anything on a heavy duty wash and a low heat dry. If the item is that fragile I think I will soak it in the bath tub and once it dries I take it to the dry cleaner. In my old neighborhood the dry cleaner knew me because I came in a lot with my coats. Ha!

I generally dont spend much on clothes but there are a few individual things that cost me quite a bit more.
Once its in my wardrobe its free game for any wam session i have. I only really care about how it will look/feel and even if an expensive item gets totally ruined, if the session was good then it was worth it

The cost of the outfit isn't the important part of getting it messy.
For me I like the outfit to be quite light weight, the sort that clings to your body when it's covered in mud, sloppy food stuff or just soaking wet.
Just love the feeling of a messy skirt or dress clinging to me.

Like others have mentioned, similarly for me the cost is unimportant.

TBH I wouldn't normally spend more than £20-30 on a good swimsuit to get messy in and it's never been intended to be destroyed.

Having said that, I did destroy a rather nice leotard after I couldn't for the life of me get the smell of dairy out of it. I think that set me back £50?

I don't indulge in getting messy myself but the types of WAM scenes I enjoy watching are the ones where expensive, elegant clothes get ruined. I'm a huge fan of the old ALLWAM scenes where beautiful blouses and skirts and dresses get totally wrecked and how the models act furious at their destruction. To me, this is a realistic reaction to having something so nice get messy and I enjoy the humiliation component of it as well.

Most expensive items are my boots. Most expensive of them is just under $300.

No clothing destruction for me and what I am in is also what I wear out so yeah. $150 PVC dress. Messed it up with desserts. Washed it, dry it, washed it again, dried it. Put it on for a party.

Got it wet again. If you ever fall over it's always handy to when your next to the pool as water is not hard like the ground.

My allied kink is fetish gear (check my profile pics) so outfits and boots don't come cheap, but as others have said, there is no correlation between the cost of kit and pleasure.
Thankfully, many items last more than one session; I think my most expensive outfit (Acquo thigh boots and sheer latex catsuit) is just over £500, and I hope it gets an outing this year.

I agree with you. As long as I'm smartly dressed with at least 2 layers (shirt and sweater)I'm not bothered. Light weight clothing that soaks up a lot of messy food, mud or water does feel great.

Some great answers so far!

This is my general feeling. Once in the wardrobe it's getting wam at some point no matter the cost, the look and feel is of the upmost of importance, it's getting trashed.

Wow...that's quite a list of very expensive clothing. $500 dress, $250 cardigan and a sweater and jeans!

Well a pair of Wranglers are usually around $25, a western shirt can vary from about $30-$75, a leather belt is usually around $80, buckles can be anywhere from $25 to thousands, a straw cowboy hat will typically run a little under $100 but a felt can be anywhere up from that and a pair of reasonably decent cowboy boots will start at around $200. So all-in, probably about $500. Add another couple hundred if I'm wearing my chaps.

If ever I have the opportunity to do something WAM which is less nowadays unfortunately it would have to be something very cheap or used, finances don't stretch to buying clothes purely to get messy. If I do I try to dress as close as possible to how I would like a female to dress to get messy as is possible with male clothing, example wellies/rain boots (closest I have to boots) worn over figure hugging trosers/jeans, a tight top half and gloves etc.The amount of money some people spend is awesome and people such as Mirukubiru who are not afraid to wear quite expensive jewellery in say the mud, jewellery always adds the finishing touch, hope you haven't lost any of your jewellery in the $100s up to $1000 that you wear while wamming.........