Its like that in every club in leeds...it makes me wanna barf! It was sooooooo blatantly everyone wearing the same stuff it was just wrong.
I dont think there is enough shops to go around everyone in leeds. Like what u say about people dressing similar to those in their peer group-i totally agree with that-everyone does it to varying degrees....but there is a difference between looking like ur in a group and actually wearing the same outfit (which is what happens in leeds all the frikkin time.) Now I don't think that everyone intends this...for those that want to have their own avente garde style (i think ur like this chez), this is hard to achieve in leeds (because really, there is only 3 shops everyone shops in-ur bound to have somthing on that the person next to you is wearing.) this is why i dont shop in leeds when i wanna buy somthing special-and
why i would never buy anything from all saints (why spend £200 on somthing everyone has????) BUT-on the flip side, money doesnt buy style (a controversial comment in leeds
) and any nit wit without any style can pop into aqua or all saints and look half decent-"trendy"...not necesarilly stylish. When i first went into all saints-i loved the clothes there, they are beautiful after all. But now-just too obvious and for me-lacks any imagination. The clothes are good...but time for somthing new in my eyes. The people who wear the best stuff are those that have worked an outfit out of pieces that they love, you have no idea where they're from and look totally like themselves (not like a shop manekin). It was stylish the first time someone did it, but not after that. You can look like you belong-but in a less obvious way i think. (that fucking jesus rocks belt ruined all saints for me tbh-it turned from somthing pretty cool into somthing clueless teenyboppers wore (to oceana:| ) after their gran got it them for their 17th birthday.
*****edit*******Manchester is alot different to leeds, in that its alot bigger and more cosmopolitan (there is lots of different sub cultures). Like London/brum-u couldn't pin it down to an over whelmingly apparent look - you deffinately can in leeds. I know its not all like that. I keep trying to search for this hidden culture to leeds...a dingy underbelly of diversity...is there one???
Oh and easty you spaz-just blatantly calling someones mates dicks...its just rude and cock-end behaviour!
***that is my opinion***
Haha, yeah Easty buggerlugs.
Its like that in
every club WE go to, because we are in that scene!! There are all sorts of heavy metal, cheese, indie nights going on in Leeds all of the time where
people do not dress like that, we don't see it because we don't go! And the house/tech scene is just whats massive in Leeds at the moment so I think that is why we predominantly see that look in Leeds at the moment...and its spread lol.
Money can buy stylish clothes, but of course you can be stylish without money. I've always stood by the principle, if it looks good, wear it, whether its from Primark, M&S, Armani (I remember the days you wouldn't shop at Primark Loz!!!)
There are loaaads more great shops in Leeds! All Saints and Aqua are just two really typical shops mentioned for the sake of the thread, they probably are the current favourites, and their popularity is what has shot them in the foot, like anything when it becomes too commercial it loses its charm.
BUT there are only certain pieces in those kinds of shops that everyone buys!!!!! (The same with any shop!) And I totally agree that buying that kind of stuff isn't about personal style, but I could show you some of my stuff that you'd love and probably never believe was from those shops (like that long pale geen dress i had on at you bday party that you liked was from Aqua). Hardly anyone wears the jesus rocks belts anymore, unless they're genuinely devoid of any imagination.. There is so much more you're missing out on by assuming that its all the same!!! (i'm just saying that as you say you're struggling to shop in Leeds). Ok analogy time, compare it to someone like Eric Prydz, who releases a few commercial, tunes that are popular with the sheep to make money, but then is also the maker of much much more quality music that you might overlook and otherwise have loved because you'd written him off as a commercial leheeewser....i'm just saying don't write somewhere off altogether just because it sells a few things you don't like, you wouldn't do that with high-street shops!)
Your style is different anyway Loz, I know you've always said you dislike following trends, you like those odd random pieces (which I like too) like your vintagey dresses etc...but
nobody has a wardrobe full of those for everyday!
Now, talking about everyday wear, where do
you go for a killer, non run-of-the-mill pair of wearable
everyday jeans, where you know you're guaranteed to find a pair that you'll get excited about? And what do you wear on a daily basis? I pretty much know the answer to that...top & trews... but where from? topshop? H & M?
But they are all the same.....!?!?!?
Anyway, in the end its each to their own, tomato tomayta xxxxxx
Loz said it was Aqua Couture!
