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Teens not giving up "designer" clothes yet

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  • #32
    speedboatchase
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,825 ✭✭✭speedboatchase


    Blakely Dirty Bag wrote: »
    That's still the case, I rather pennys tee shirts than any other. The only thing I splash out on is a pair of jeans. Although the best pair of jeans I have cost me 20 dollars :P

    Never understood the point in spending 50 euro on one teeshirt when you could get 6 or 7. It's nice to have some designer stuff, don't get me wrong, but shop around, get bargains, and buy the no name designer stuff...

    I'm the opposite. My mate has tons of ill-fitting, rubbish looking jeans that are falling apart. I've only have a few jeans but they fit fantastic, look great and hold up after plenty of washes. I understand a bargain is a bargain etc but personally I think if money is always your main motivation you'll never wear the things you really want and look the way you want to look. I don't bother with the high street or Pennys but I do love a sale on ASOS.com, don't see the point in wearing the same clothes everyone else is wearing every day


  • #33
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    The only pieces of clothing worth splashing out on are a good coat and decent shoes.

    Although I got a gorgeous coat in Penneys yesterday for a tenner, it's so warm :)


    I'm technically still a teenager and my favourite pastime is finding bargains! paying more than ten euro for things sickens me


  • #34
    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    Ruu wrote: »
    In my day, you would get Primark be glad of it!

    "Primark" .. Look who's trying to be a poor/posh!.

    'Pennys' was good enough for us in Ballymun, or at Christmas you got your clobber from 'The Vincents!.

    'Primark' me hole :P


  • #35
    Pace2008
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    K-Ren wrote: »
    I always buy from Pennys because I like the idea that Taiwaneese children toiled wretchedly just to clothe me.
    Taiwan has a pretty developed economy; I don't think it operates what we'd consider 'sweatshops' on a large scale. In any case, sweatshop work might sound like hell to people with Irish sensibilities, but a lot people in poorer Asian countries are happy to work in them since they’re a lot better than the alternatives.




  • #36
    phasers
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    Fred's Fashions FTW ye poshie bastards :D


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  • #37
    amacachi
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    I'm 21 and other than footwear and a suit I don't think I've got any currently-fitting item of clothing that cost more than 6 quid.


  • #38
    ~nop~
    Closed Accounts Posts: 245 ✭✭~nop~


    This survey looks completely biased to me. The question presumed that they were buying designer clothes in the first place, so therefore kids who weren't anyway aren't going to tick this answer as their way of cutting down on spending.

    I know no teenagers at all who wear nothing high-street, and even high street is very expensive for a lot of them (think Topshop etc.)


  • #39
    Pace2008
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    ~nop~ wrote: »
    This survey looks completely biased to me. The question presumed that they were buying designer clothes in the first place, so therefore kids who weren't anyway aren't going to tick this answer as their way of cutting down on spending.

    I know no teenagers at all who wear nothing high-street, and even high street is very expensive for a lot of them (think Topshop etc.)
    Absolutely. The article is ephebiphobic nonsense.


  • #40
    seraphimvc
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    so college students are not teens anymore??:(

    caused' i see nothing like that article said is actually happening around me!


  • #41
    DancingQueen:)
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    I'm a teenager and nothing like the ones in that article. I like to look nice but wouldn't spend too much money on designer clothes. I like Pennys, you get some great bargains there and when I do splash out on clothes its normally my own money and not my parents.


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  • #42
    RandolphEsq
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    Shirts, shoes and trousers/jeans do require money being spent on them for proper comfort. Cheap jeans especially IMO (under €30) have always just had something wrong from the way they make your legs look to the crotch being to close to the waistband.


  • #43
    streings
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    JupiterKid wrote: »
    IMO a lot of teens in Ireland are spoiled, rude and bad mannered.:(

    When have teenagers been anything different? You were like this once you just didn't realise it so get down of your high horse.

    Really it's up to the parent's how much their teenager spends. If I am given E40 by my parents I make the reasonable assumption that this E40 is fair game to spend unless told otherwise. After all, why would my parent's give me money they don't have to give away?
    The only reason the teenagerss parents are reducing expendeture is that their income has been cut/abolished, otherwise obviously they wouldn't. If the teenager's income (their pocket money or money they get off their parents when they go out) isn't cut, it is unresonable to expect them to reduce their own expendeture without being encouraged or forced.


  • #44
    Pygmalion
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    K-Ren wrote: »
    I always buy from Pennys because I like the idea that Taiwaneese children toiled wretchedly just to clothe me.
    Yeah, Nike and Adidas workers for example live as kings among men, get €15 an hour and all over 18 and from developed countries.


  • #45
    amacachi
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    Pygmalion wrote: »
    Yeah, Nike and Adidas workers for example live as kings among men, get €15 an hour and all over 18 and from developed countries.

    I too love how people think that more expensive clothes mean better conditions for the workers. Had someone say once "I'm not buying clothes in Penny's any more because I read about how they buy from sweatshops." Eh yeah, go pay 10 times more for something similar elsewhere, it may even have been made in the same damn factory.


  • #46
    partyatmygaff
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    About 60-70% of all the clothes I have are designer or atleast high-quality but I paid for it all out my own money, I rarely ever ask my parents for money since I started secondary school.
    I never ever buy cheapo shoes because they just do not last at all, same for any other high-use things like jeans etc. A t-shirt etc I don't really care so long as it looks good.


  • #47
    amacachi
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    partyatmygaff wrote: »
    About 60-70% of all the clothes I have are designer or atleast high-quality but I paid for it all out my own money, I rarely ever ask my parents for money since I started secondary school.
    I never ever buy cheapo shoes because they just do not last at all, same for any other high-use things like jeans etc. A t-shirt etc I don't really care so long as it looks good.

    These €20, 2-year-old runners I'm wearing must be some kind of time-bending entity. Can't believe I bet those ****ers at CERN to the prize.


  • #48
    Pygmalion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭Pygmalion


    amacachi wrote: »
    These €20, 2-year-old runners I'm wearing must be some kind of time-bending entity. Can't believe I bet those ****ers at CERN to the prize.
    Incidentally where did you get them?
    Cheapo runners are like the one piece of clothing I find that actually don't last me that long.


  • #49
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,316 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    * = She sounded D4, but the report was recorded in.... Louth. Go Figure.
    F**king D4 wannabe - the worst type!


  • #50
    amacachi
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    Pygmalion wrote: »
    Incidentally where did you get them?
    Cheapo runners are like the one piece of clothing I find that actually don't last me that long.

    JJB sports. "Hi-Tec" ones. I wear them pretty much every day like so I've gotten a ridiculous amount of use out of them and I can't see any holes in them.


  • #51
    ScumLord
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    All my clothes are designer, well someone had to design them, I think it's racist to say if my clothes where designed and made by Chinese lads that they don't count as designer.
    Just because the Chinese work hard and don't ponce about the place like fairy's while they charge €230 for a woolly jumper just because said fairy stood over a smelly student and watched them stitch the arm on before they sent it off to another Chinese factory to be made properly, the good old fashioned hard workin' communist red way, with blood, sweat and a few missing fingers thrown in for good measure.


    I buy my clothes in Dunnes.


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  • #52
    Futurism
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    I wonder if you were to take the parents of those 252 teenagers and asked them to answer on behalf of the kids, would the results be the same? Doubt it.

    I'm 18 and I usually only buy expensive clothes around Christmas. I'll probably spend a max of 200 euro around then with 100 of that being from my parents. It gives me some nicer clothes that'll last nearly the whole year.

    Other than that, it's mainly dunnes/other-similarly-priced-stores with the odd thing bought on sale somewhere else.


  • #53
    kelle
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    Ruu wrote: »
    In my day, you would get Primark be glad of it!
    I was lucky if I got Primark - we got hand-me-downs from my cousins and my mother bought our clothes at a secondhand clothes stall at a market which was held every Friday! She also handmade clothes. Didn't know the neaning of the word Designer!


  • #54
    kincsem
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    speedboatchase wrote: »
    The same Abercrombie & Fitch whose profits just dropped 68%, good luck there :)

    Yeah, the shares I bought for $26 last November and are now $33.76. :)


  • #55
    Any key?
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 533 ✭✭✭Any key?


    whats more shocking is I know people who are 22 or 23 have never had to work cause their "working" in college and who put their hand out to their parents for J1'S etc. etc. and are still doing it.

    Shocking my mam forced me up out to work part time when I was 15 and If she hadn't I doubt I'd be half as confident or chatty and certainly wouldn't have a clue about money.

    If those teenagers want money they should have to work for it......even if that means painting aunt siles gate :)


  • #56
    EdgarAllenPoo
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    Stuck with Pennys clothes until I actually got a job, now the only things I buy there are jeans, socks and jocks. That's not necessarily because I buy tons of expensive stuff but thanks to the internet I've been able to buy clothes that are equally cheap but last more than 2 seconds/don't shrink after one wash.


  • #57
    antomorro-sei
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,969 ✭✭✭antomorro-sei


    Designer ftw...

    I bought two Lyle & Scott polo's yesterday :D


  • #58
    Gummy Panda
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    I'd rather have 2 pairs of John Rocha Jeans then 10 x pairs of penny's jeans.

    Penny's stuff is **** and ill fitting. Quality over quantity


  • #59
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,115 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    It's all about the CS Active


  • #60
    Oisinjm
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    JupiterKid wrote: »
    lol I'm 35 years of age. Why my username is JupiterKid? Because i like it, simple as.

    IMO a lot of teens in Ireland are spoiled, rude and bad mannered.:( If they are 16 or over and want to still buy designer clothes - can they not earn money via a part time job?

    See one of the main parts of a recession is that the menial, easy jobs that teenager used to do part-time, are now taken up adults who've lost their higher paying jobs.

    Im a teenager myself and I get 20 euro off my parents a week. If I want to get new clothers I use that money to save up. I can spend it on designer gear or Pennys/Dunnes if I want, its my choice. I looked for a parttime job in summer but couldnt find one. So please don't paint us all with the same brush. You also need to realise, the people questioned in this survey were probaby all pulled off Grafton Street while shopping...


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  • #61
    pikachucheeks
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    I had a bit of an obsession with "designer" clothes when I was younger.
    I refused to wear Penney's or Dunnes' clothing.
    Then I challenged my dad to see who had more designer clothes.

    ... I was left quite red-faced when he whopped my ass. All I had that was actually designer was a pair of socks :(
    Apparently, Topshop doesn't count!

    Now, I'd wear clothes from anywhere, if I like it. Doesn't matter where it's from so long as it looks good on and you feel good in it. You don't have to spend hundreds - or thousands - of euro to look stylish or look attractive.


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