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Old May 1st 2005, 9:44 am
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I'd appreciate how you personally define fashion regarding preferred clothes, shoes, hats, accessories.

Q:Are Aussies keen on the designer's brands or the more comfortable generic brands?

This is part of a feasibility study on a business venture so I hope you can give me your better answers.

Many thanks.

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I found some of the clothes very colourful, but who wants to wear black in their temperatures!

I think that they do cater well for the fuller figure. On the whole the clothes are not bad.

One thing which I found refreshing was that people wern't bothered by fashion labels as much. You can slip on a pair of shorts and a teashirt, a pair of sandles and you are away

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The fashion is great

And if you come to a nice hot place like this you don't need much material. You can charge for the missing bits



Not that I notice these things of course
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The fashion here is a season behind the UK.
The 50's style flowery skirts that were everywhere last suumer in the UK, were in the shops here in November (start of summer)
Now we are heading into winter the shops are full of crochet ponchoes and fur lined body warmers.
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Default Re: How fashionable are Australians?

Originally Posted by amendoza
I'd appreciate how you personally define fashion regarding preferred clothes, shoes, hats, accessories.

Q:Are Aussies keen on the designer's brands or the more comfortable generic brands?

This is part of a feasibility study on a business venture so I hope you can give me your better answers.

Many thanks.

Cheers,
Hannah
There is great variation to suit all sorts of people and all sorts of lifestyle in Aus. In cities especially, you will find the ultra-cool, stylish people who go out just to be seen. (e.g Chapel St in Melbourne). What do you mean by a) designers and b) generic brands? If you mean European designers such as Prada, Versace, D&G, etc, then these are popular and readily available in the big cities (both full label and diffusion ranges). Less expensive - things like Diesel, replay also very popular. Generic brands - do you mean 'high street' - things like Cue, Satch, Mango, Sports Girl, FC?

European labels tend to be expensive - in part due to the high import duty on imported clothing. But 'European' is often seen as desirable so there is often a higher price tag for that reason too.

My family live rural and spend most of their time in shorts and singlets. Their social life is generally sitting on someone's porch or BBQ by the river, and working on a farm so smart or trendy clothes aren't practical.

I know a lot of people comment on the fact that there is less emphasis on clothes 'snobbery' in Oz but it does indeed exist loud and proud in certain places (i.e there is a market for it if you're looking for a market) Guess it all depends on your lifestyle.
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Hubby went out with the boys last week to a Finnegans bar,he said it looked like he was walking into a farmers ball !!
Very few seem to bother about fashion,labels etc..

We have just got ourselves a babysitter & i am totally confused as what to wear when we go out !!

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Originally Posted by amendoza
I'd appreciate how you personally define fashion regarding preferred clothes, shoes, hats, accessories.

Q:Are Aussies keen on the designer's brands or the more comfortable generic brands?

This is part of a feasibility study on a business venture so I hope you can give me your better answers.

Many thanks.

Cheers,
Hannah
As long as it looks good and feels nice, who cares about the name / label !

This is what I love about being back in OZ - nobody cares about the label I'm wearing. UK is so superficial in this respect.

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PS. There are only so many things you can do with shorts, t-shirt and thongs
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This is what I love about being back in OZ - nobody cares about the label I'm wearing. UK is so superficial in this respect.
It's funny tho cos in the last year back in the UK, nobody has ever asked me what labels I'm wearing. They might say "I like your top, where did you get it" but I don't feel any pressure to buy expensive branded clothing. Maybe it depends on lifestyle? Did people really look down on you if you're not wearing designer stuff? I do know people here who are clothes-obsessed but I don't socialise with them.

Some guy got murdered in Brisbane a few weeks back and robbed of his designer clothing (which turned out was fake anyway).
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Originally Posted by HiddenPaw
My family live rural and spend most of their time in shorts and singlets. Their social life is generally sitting on someone's porch or BBQ by the river, and working on a farm so smart or trendy clothes aren't practical.
That is so true, I live in country WA and when we went to Perth the other day it was really weird to see people all dressed up again, a warm day and all the office people wearing suits. A person in a suit in Gero is a rare site, even at formal functions like weddings.

I spend my life in a teeshirts and shorts, When we leave here I'm gonna look like country hicksville gal.

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Default Re: How fashionable are Australians?

Originally Posted by amendoza
I'd appreciate how you personally define fashion regarding preferred clothes, shoes, hats, accessories.

Q:Are Aussies keen on the designer's brands or the more comfortable generic brands?

This is part of a feasibility study on a business venture so I hope you can give me your better answers.

Many thanks.

Cheers,
Hannah

have you seen delta goodrem :scared:
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have you seen delta goodrem :scared:

Melbournians are quite fashionable. Especially if you go down Fitzroy and Acland st in St.Kilda and chapel st in prahan
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It's funny tho cos in the last year back in the UK, nobody has ever asked me what labels I'm wearing. They might say "I like your top, where did you get it" but I don't feel any pressure to buy expensive branded clothing. Maybe it depends on lifestyle? Did people really look down on you if you're not wearing designer stuff? I do know people here who are clothes-obsessed but I don't socialise with them.

Some guy got murdered in Brisbane a few weeks back and robbed of his designer clothing (which turned out was fake anyway).
Sadly Yes ! some of my ex work collegues (Scotland not Germany) thought the label was more important than the person
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hello all......fashions a little backward here in brissy...clothes dont last as long either..they are alot cheaper tho !!!
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... A person in a suit in Gero is a rare site, even at formal functions like weddings.
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Same in rural Qld. When MrsDagBoy's nephews came down to Bris for a family funeral I had to lend them shoes - they had remembered their suits - just hadn't remembered they needed shoes. One of them is a pineapple farmer and doesn't even wear shoes out in the fields most of the time. If he did I am sure he would want something with a good label though, otherwise the other farmers might think less of him.

I don't think Aussies care so much for labels here - or maybe it is that fewer of them care. That may be because they have more sense or it might just be that the lifestyle makes it irrelevant (at least up here). When I worked in the UK it was expected that I would wear a suit. I had several suits, all "labels", wore designer ties, nice shirts etc. In the last 4 years I have worn a suit about 10 times at work and most of them were in the first year.

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Default Re: How fashionable are Australians?

Originally Posted by amendoza
I'd appreciate how you personally define fashion regarding preferred clothes, shoes, hats, accessories.

Q:Are Aussies keen on the designer's brands or the more comfortable generic brands?

This is part of a feasibility study on a business venture so I hope you can give me your better answers.

Many thanks.

Cheers,
Hannah
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