by insted » Wed Mar 05, 2014 1:46 am
it fucking sucks living in a city without any humble / independently owned clothing shops. i have two department stores for designer clothing and i've never been to either of them. everything designer i own is copped via e-g, grailed, quepasa, sufu / styleforum market places, etc.
i want to actually walk into somewhere and approach the piece, admire it, try it out, try and foster a relationship with it before i actually buy it.
i joined no cop thread and i think i'm going to just save save save for a while and hajj for new york. see opening ceremony with my own eyes. i think eventually we'll get something more down to earth but this city as a whole needs to learn how to express themselves (edit: i realize that sounds really tacky and judgemental, but what i mean is that my city is saturated with a lot of 20 somethings that do a LOT of shopping at urban outfitters and thrift stores and end up all looking like derivatives of each other) first and stop fucking with urban outfitters and gaudy "cultural" thrifted clothing. i was purging all my bullshit at a local buffalo exchange and the girl inspecting picked up a shit H&M sweater and was like "oh yea this is a really hot brand right now, these sell really well"
H&M and zara are also both very very popular here. i think people just don't really know any better.