Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
But seriously, do you like clothes that look nice? You don't have to stand out with garish clothes to have a nice look
How interested are you in clothes and fashion?
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Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Nope - I was just using an extreme as an example - I don't do garish either, unless it's called forReno said:
Orang Utan said:
I love clothes that look nice but don't get a chance to dress up very often so usually buy plain jeans and tops. It's a sort of uniform and I know I can't go wrong whereas if I bought a pretty dress, it would probably look shit on me and I'd feel really self concious wearing it iyswim.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
I just know what I like and stick with it, whether it's fashionable or not.Idaho said:You mean you spend a lot of time and money buying clothes that aren't fasionable, or follow fashion but are in denial
I've recently wanted to start dressing like a gentleman in pinstripe, with a wastecoat n shit - mainly cos I want to have a pocket watch, so I can take it out and shake my head gravely and say, 'I'm sorry sir, but I'm in a dreadful rush, I cannot help you'. Costs a fortune and is a bugger to maintain though.
northernhord
Active Member
I dont buy into fashion, Ive worn me baggy jeans and DC trainers for a decade now, guess I,m out of date, so be it
Cloo
Banana for scale
Hard to define. I've increasingly tended to avoid high-fashion items that I think are transient, but I've always read fashion mags and can sort of tell my Christopher Kane from my Marc Jacobs.
I can't be arsed to keep up with what's in fashion in my own wardrobe, as it all changes so quickly, although I will buy fashionable stuff if it suits me and I think it will last. I've never shopped to get a 'new season's wardrobe' or any of that crap. Even so, I've rather cut down on clothes buying in the last year, knowing we were planning on a baby for this year - ie, I'd hoped to be preggers this winter (and I am) so I didn't buy any new non-maternity stuff, and I know I'll have to cut down clothes spending in future, so I'm starting to practise that now!
I do like clothes, and I'm wary of not becoming too comfy-cosy-mumsy once I have a kid just because it's convenient. I still feel I've not found my stride - I'd like to build up a kind of colourful, layer-y boho look, but I can't really afford to buy that sort of stuff regularly!
I can't be arsed to keep up with what's in fashion in my own wardrobe, as it all changes so quickly, although I will buy fashionable stuff if it suits me and I think it will last. I've never shopped to get a 'new season's wardrobe' or any of that crap. Even so, I've rather cut down on clothes buying in the last year, knowing we were planning on a baby for this year - ie, I'd hoped to be preggers this winter (and I am) so I didn't buy any new non-maternity stuff, and I know I'll have to cut down clothes spending in future, so I'm starting to practise that now!
I do like clothes, and I'm wary of not becoming too comfy-cosy-mumsy once I have a kid just because it's convenient. I still feel I've not found my stride - I'd like to build up a kind of colourful, layer-y boho look, but I can't really afford to buy that sort of stuff regularly!
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
I know quite a bit about fashion and style. I know most of the designers and what is 'in' this 'season' etc etc.
I don't pull it off that well myself though.
I don't pull it off that well myself though.
SpookyFrank
Don't swallow the cap
Proper style is timeless and personal, it has fuck all to do with buying new stuff every few months and trying to look like whichever vacuous whore is dominating the pages of heat magazine this week. Sometimes I like to create a proper outfit for myself, a simple but somehow unique combination of colours and shapes, but I'm equally happy throwing stuff on at random, safe in the knowledge that people pay far more attention to their own clothes than anyone else's these days.
Yu_Gi_Oh
天天好心情
I like fashion, but I'd never buy something that I didn't think had style, however 'in' it is.
Something I find strange is that every season Vogue shows off loads of lovely trends and styles but most of them don't make it to the shops, and yet again they're full of shapeless tops and dresses.
Last year I lived in Italy and they really know how to pull off style over fashion, the shops could be filled with crap but the Italians still looked great.
For me fashion is about finding stuff you like and incorporating it into your personal style rather than changing your personal style to suit current fashion.
Having said that, I do love some of the major fashion houses, but even then my love is tied to how much I like the pieces rather than just wearing their logo. Fendi has been gorgeous for a few seasons but the spring 2008 collection doesn't do much for me really, sadly.
The fashion houses are more than logos to me, I think different houses can represent different personal styles, for example Gucci is quite garish and ostentatious (imo) and cavalli is all slinky items and sexiness while Fendi often has quite a clean, structured look with some unusual pieces.
ETA- Sometimes buying something branded isn't all about the brand, but about the quality. I found a Fendi wallet in a charity shop and it is buy far the nicest, most well made wallet I've ever owned, not just because it's covered in the Fendi logo.
Something I find strange is that every season Vogue shows off loads of lovely trends and styles but most of them don't make it to the shops, and yet again they're full of shapeless tops and dresses.
Last year I lived in Italy and they really know how to pull off style over fashion, the shops could be filled with crap but the Italians still looked great.
For me fashion is about finding stuff you like and incorporating it into your personal style rather than changing your personal style to suit current fashion.
Having said that, I do love some of the major fashion houses, but even then my love is tied to how much I like the pieces rather than just wearing their logo. Fendi has been gorgeous for a few seasons but the spring 2008 collection doesn't do much for me really, sadly.
The fashion houses are more than logos to me, I think different houses can represent different personal styles, for example Gucci is quite garish and ostentatious (imo) and cavalli is all slinky items and sexiness while Fendi often has quite a clean, structured look with some unusual pieces.
ETA- Sometimes buying something branded isn't all about the brand, but about the quality. I found a Fendi wallet in a charity shop and it is buy far the nicest, most well made wallet I've ever owned, not just because it's covered in the Fendi logo.
Cloo
Banana for scale
Yeah - that's me. It's funny how I feel I know what's in, but I just can't seem to pull it off myself. I think it's a confidence thing. There's two nice girls in my office I really admire for wearing fashion really well - lately they've both looked really cool with things like outsized plastic bead necklaces, wide belts, and that kind of 'sexy secretary' look. I just feel I'd get it wrong if I tried, but they always pull it off. In fact, I probably could do it if I wanted to - I just don't feel confident I'd get it right. So that's another reason I tend to avoid high fashion - I'd rather not go at it half-arsed.Dillinger4 said:I know quite a bit about fashion and style. I know most of the designers and what is 'in' this 'season' etc etc.
I don't pull it off that well myself though.
Yu_Gi_Oh
天天好心情
There is a website called www.polyvore.com where you can put together different outfits to see how they'd look together, it's quite fun, a bit like those paper dolls from when we were kids, but with high fashion instead.
Yu_Gi_Oh
天天好心情
Ms T said:
Strange, maybe your idea of bling is my idea of class!!
I guess our experience of Italian style will be determined by our tastes. Where I lived, in Parma, they take fashion very, very seriously but when I talked to people they always seemed most interested in quality than labels.
Almost everyone had a big label bag but they were all fakes bout for 30 Euros in the streets.
The thriving boutique industry in Italy means that you have a better mix of chain stores and independent shops which sell high quality items too, which suggests that Italians aren't that obsessed with big labels all the time.
i'm pretty conservative dress wise. most of my wardrobe is ralph lauren. i like to give off the casual professional look
Yu_Gi_Oh
天天好心情
Geri said:Are they snobby about it though? My colleague goes to Italy a lot and he says when they go the opera, women literally come right up to his wife and look her up and down quite openly.
It puts me off going.
lol, yes. But it's not all the time, only at night if you go out and it's quite funny once you enter into the spirit of things and do it back to them.
And even then it's not everyone.Parma was very bad (or good) for the snobby fashion thing, if I went to nearby towns it was usually less *FASHION* and more relaxed.
butterfly child
Well-Known Member
Geri said:Are they snobby about it though? My colleague goes to Italy a lot and he says when they go the opera, women literally come right up to his wife and look her up and down quite openly.
It puts me off going.
Italian men do it, I've never noticed Italian women do it.
Different reasons though, I guess!
Certainly in Rome, they dress very dull. Shops are full of fantastic clothes, but they don't seem to reach the streets!
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
I have to take an interest in it coz it's my job. I sell trend forecasts, I've got a bit of a knack for knowing what's coming next. It involves a lot of ebay trawling, charity shop rummaging and awareness of new movies and stuff like that. I kind of get a hunch of what people will be into next.
Trends aren't that seasonal anymore, they seem to last at least a year, usually longer. Its not like the 1960's when every girl poured herself into a mini whether she had the legs for it or not.
But who follows fashion, slavishly, as it's laid out in the mags, really? I reckon maybe a couple of hundred people in London alone. Probably less. I like clothes and accessories, I love looking at them, but I think it should be fun. But fashion editors should be killed in the face for making it too serious and giving far too much of a shit about it.
The mags do my head in, the cost of designer clothes do too, they seem to have inflated in price by about 200 percent over the last few years, I'm guessing the plc that own them are trying their best to milk the new super rich. It's criminal though, a grand for a bag, four grand for a skirt (in the latest edition of Vogue).Especially when you know its been designed by some recent graduate living in Italy on peanuts. Some of the salaries I've seen offered to graduates in Italy are well below what would be the minimum wage in the UK, I've a couple of friends who worked for Armani and Ferre who were utterly broke.
Trends aren't that seasonal anymore, they seem to last at least a year, usually longer. Its not like the 1960's when every girl poured herself into a mini whether she had the legs for it or not.
But who follows fashion, slavishly, as it's laid out in the mags, really? I reckon maybe a couple of hundred people in London alone. Probably less. I like clothes and accessories, I love looking at them, but I think it should be fun. But fashion editors should be killed in the face for making it too serious and giving far too much of a shit about it.
The mags do my head in, the cost of designer clothes do too, they seem to have inflated in price by about 200 percent over the last few years, I'm guessing the plc that own them are trying their best to milk the new super rich. It's criminal though, a grand for a bag, four grand for a skirt (in the latest edition of Vogue).Especially when you know its been designed by some recent graduate living in Italy on peanuts. Some of the salaries I've seen offered to graduates in Italy are well below what would be the minimum wage in the UK, I've a couple of friends who worked for Armani and Ferre who were utterly broke.
