How fashionable are Australians?
#1
How fashionable are Australians?
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
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
#2
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Joined: Oct 2002
Location: UK 2 Oz, Oz 2 UK, Been there, done that, got the tee-shirt!
Posts: 773
Re: How fashionable are Australians?
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
Mandy
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
Mandy
#3
Re: How fashionable are Australians?
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
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
#4
Re: How fashionable are Australians?
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.
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.
#5
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
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
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.
#6
Re: How fashionable are Australians?
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 !!
Donna.
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 !!
Donna.
#7
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
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
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.
Mairi
PS. There are only so many things you can do with shorts, t-shirt and thongs
#8
Re: How fashionable are Australians?
Originally Posted by Vegemite Kids
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.
Some guy got murdered in Brisbane a few weeks back and robbed of his designer clothing (which turned out was fake anyway).
#9
Re: How fashionable are Australians?
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.
I spend my life in a teeshirts and shorts, When we leave here I'm gonna look like country hicksville gal.
Kala
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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
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:
#11
Re: How fashionable are Australians?
Originally Posted by Rooksie
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
#12
Re: How fashionable are Australians?
Originally Posted by HiddenPaw
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).
Some guy got murdered in Brisbane a few weeks back and robbed of his designer clothing (which turned out was fake anyway).
#13
emjax
Joined: May 2005
Location: brisbane
Posts: 1
Re: How fashionable are Australians?
hello all......fashions a little backward here in brissy...clothes dont last as long either..they are alot cheaper tho !!!
#14
Re: How fashionable are Australians?
Originally Posted by JayDeee
... A person in a suit in Gero is a rare site, even at formal functions like weddings.
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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.
Cheers,
DagBoy
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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
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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