Is Fashion a load of bollocks?

mfceiling · 22-11-2012 08:13PM #1

Sitting watching tele with herself last night and she's watching "Off The Rails". They were talking about someone who's a "face designer" - taking that to be someone who puts make up on women's faces and not a plastic surgeon. They were going on about how she worked for some of the world's biggest fashion houses

Is it not all a big pile of sh*te?

Standing in a fancy shop in dublin with herself one day (she's buying a voucher for her brother). Sales man comes up to me and starts yapping about this years trends and what is in fashion. He then asks me about my "winter wardrobe". I told him it's the same as my summer wardrobe only i wear a coat as well (still not sure why a man needs separate wardrobes for each season).

Missus and me are out for dinner with friends of hers one night and they are going on about clothes/fashion etc. One of them mentions a "winter white" coat she had bought. I asked her what exactly is winter white. She tells me "it's cream but it's more winter white than cream"......cue vigorous nodding from all the women.

Seriously is fashion not just a load of balls?

franktheplank · 22-11-2012 08:16PM

Being fat is the new black.

Spiritual · 22-11-2012 08:16PM

Yes but people won't admit it. There is some serious rubbish out there that people try to pass off as fashion.

Skinny jeans on men, need I go on.

brummytom · 22-11-2012 08:17PM

Yes it is. Also, people who consider themselves 'into fashion' are ****.

Praetorian Saighdiuir · 22-11-2012 08:18PM

It's a load of fancy pants if ya ask me!

Myrddin · 22-11-2012 08:18PM

Yes.

asherbassad · 22-11-2012 08:18PM

mfceiling wrote: »

Sitting watching tele with herself last night and she's watching "Off The Rails". They were talking about someone who's a "face designer" - taking that to be someone who puts make up on women's faces and not a plastic surgeon. They were going on about how she worked for some of the world's biggest fashion houses Is it not all a big pile of sh*te?

Standing in a fancy shop in dublin with herself one day (she's buying a voucher for her brother). Sales man comes up to me and starts yapping about this years trends and what is in fashion. He then asks me about my "winter wardrobe". I told him it's the same as my summer wardrobe only i wear a coat as well (still not sure why a man needs separate wardrobes for each season).

Missus and me are out for dinner with friends of hers one night and they are going on about clothes/fashion etc. One of them mentions a "winter white" coat she had bought. I asked her what exactly is winter white. She tells me "it's cream but it's more winter white than cream"......cue vigorous nodding from all the women.

Seriously is fashion not just a load of balls?

You should have pulled out your lad, shot a blast of bollock-champagne on her dress and asked her what colour that was. Stupid bimbo.

donvito99 · 22-11-2012 08:18PM

Nothing at allNothing at allNothing at allNothing at all

ToddyDoody · 22-11-2012 08:19PM

Men's fashion is

Cee-Jay-Cee · 22-11-2012 08:20PM

I've taken my fashion tips from lady gagagaga and now wear 16 packets of Galtee Bacon (oak smoked)

Difference Engine · 22-11-2012 08:20PM

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Oscar Wilde

Rothko · 22-11-2012 08:21PM

Yes, I don't understand why anyone care about fashion trends.

flutterflye · 22-11-2012 08:23PM

Course it is.
I don't see why anyone follows it at all - bloody empty headed lollipops.
The thing is though, it's not just the dumb air heads - I have a friend who reads all those cleb mags and is forever following the latest fashion, but she is super intelligent, has a masters from trinners and has a great job as a researcher.
I don't know - leave them at it I guess.
In the mean time I'll just stick with wearing what I like instead of what I'm told to like

franktheplank · 22-11-2012 08:23PM

Pssh - Giving out about fashion is soooo last year.

Rebelkell · 22-11-2012 08:25PM

When i'm stewing in my ****e job i draw great comfort from the fact that anyone in the fashion industry is in a more meaningless occupation than me. And my job is meaningless i can assure you!

Seaneh · 22-11-2012 08:26PM

Fashion is a load of balls, but some current fashion trends are amazing.

This summer was hotpants what wer little bigger than knickers, "jeggings" and yoga pants plastered to the amazing arses of Galway's finest chungwans from march until late september.

So fashion has some uses.

flutterflye · 22-11-2012 08:26PM

CJC999 wrote: »

I've taken my fashion tips from lady gagagaga and now wear 16 packets of Galtee Bacon (oak smoked)

I wasn't paying proper attention to the radio there in the car, but I think they said that lady gaga was wearing a bra made out of teeth?

pappyodaniel · 22-11-2012 08:26PM

Paul Galvin left his teaching job to become one of these fashion obsessed males like Brendan Courtney writing articles and wearing the most ridiculous ill fitting clothes.

I respect him for his football skills but this attention seeking hipster bollicks off the pitch has to go.

Fashion wreaks.

gobnaitolunacy · 22-11-2012 08:33PM

What is the point of these high falutin' fashion shows with clothes NOBODY is ever going to wear?

Bits of tinfoil/tinsel/used milk cartons and sh!te on a model that looks like shes taken a two week break in Somalia?

Rebelkell · 22-11-2012 08:34PM

pappyodaniel wrote: »

Paul Galvin left his teaching job to become one of these fashion obsessed males like Brendan Courtney writing articles and wearing the most ridiculous ill fitting clothes.

I respect him for his football skills but this attention seeking hipster bollicks off the pitch has to go.

Fashion wreaks.

Didn't he take a career break and not quit?. he's a teacher ffs. Enda was on one for 20 odd years give or take.

Seaneh · 22-11-2012 08:39PM

Rebelkell wrote: »

Didn't he take a career break and not quit?. he's a teacher ffs. Enda was on one for 20 odd years give or take.

Enda was officially a Teacher and still employed by the dept. of Education until a year or two ago and now draws a dept. pension.

The ****.

GLaDOS · 22-11-2012 08:42PM

Fashion for me generally goes as far as deciding which band's t shirt I'm going to wear.

castletownman · 22-11-2012 08:45PM

I consider myself fashion conscience in terms of what to wear for each season. GAA jersey during the summer. Soccer jersey during the winter

pappyodaniel · 22-11-2012 08:46PM

Rebelkell wrote: »

Didn't he take a career break and not quit?. he's a teacher ffs. Enda was on one for 20 odd years give or take.

Yes, he left his job.

On a career break.

22-11-2012 08:48PM

I am a woman and I dont get fashion eithe I live in a pair of jeans.

El Guapo! · 22-11-2012 08:49PM

Fashion is a load of bollox. And whatever style is "in" at the minute is ridiculous. There's girls walking around everywhere looking like they covered themselves in glue and fell into a skip full of shít clothes. And to top it all off, they all have this messy hair like they've just been attacked. The mind boggles.

And don't get me started on people who use the word "fashionista". Fukn imbeciles.

Lyaiera · 22-11-2012 08:49PM

Fashion is just a hobby people have and there's nothing wrong with that. Some people are fashion nerds and seem to think that what they think applies to everyone else which is just narcissistic. Still, a lot of people just see it as something fun to do with their time, reading about it, making it and wearing it. I don't see the problem with that.

It's the people who think it applies to everyone else that are the idiots. There's a big difference between fashion and looking good (hence the old thing about fashion versus style.) You can look incredibly good, wearing well made clothes that are extremely classy without ever going near fashion. Look at the recent trend in "suiting up" (courtesy of Barney Stinson.) I'd imagine the vast majority of men quite like wearing a suit (on the right occasion, anyway.) It's true for looking good in most clothes, some people just take it to a different level with fashion.

qz · 22-11-2012 08:52PM

I call it "Derelicte".

Wolf Club · 22-11-2012 08:55PM

It's not really my cup of tea but that doesn't necessarily mean I think it's a load of bollocks. Arguments can be made for anything being either really good or really bad. i.e. "football is just a load of lads chasing a ball around a field!", or "dance music is just a load of repetitive nonsense that only someone on drugs can enjoy!"

CillianL · 22-11-2012 09:11PM

Fashion is living in the opinions of others

El Guapo! · 22-11-2012 09:11PM

Lyaiera wrote: »

Look at the recent trend in "suiting up" (courtesy of Barney Stinson.)

Wearing a suit is a recent trend??

I've always loved wearing a suit. It's just a pity there's not more occasions when I get to wear one!

Is Fashion a load of bollocks?

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