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Kaiser Karl Nominates Pretty New Model Aide-de-Camp

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mondon
03/25/09

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the topshop uk site actually says topshop ny april 2 right on the homepage...so fingers crossed!
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bleedingmouths
03/25/09

@mondon: it's so crazy, i live in london and have been here for many years... plus i go to Topshop oxford street basically every few days (i like pain) ... on april 1st im going to new york for the first time so i will be able to actually see this new topshop... im going to compare and make notes.
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Green Goth Brit Chick - AlternatEve
03/26/09

@bleedingmouths: Check if they have the Freedom jewellery line. My sister works for their parent company and I'm curious if they're shipping their stuff (some of the best-selling stuff in TopShop) or if Phillip Green is only taking the TopShop core.

I was surprised how much of their Oxford Street store was Concessions too...
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aisuru113
03/25/09

In reply to Kaiser Karl Nominates Pretty New Model Aide-de-Camp
I wish I coudl be sad about the DSW news, I can't. They refuse to carrry my shoe size for my freak feet. My sisters and my mom will be another story.
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tscheese
03/25/09

@aisuru113: You find me a brick-and-mortar store that carries my size, and not just granny-velcro or Payless plastic/hooker plastic/Avenue plastic crap, and I will be one GIGANTIC happy camper.

DSW can suck my nuts.
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Green Goth Brit Chick - AlternatEve
03/26/09

@tscheese: Big or small? I could probably help with the big... except they're in the UK :(
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
03/25/09

In reply to Kaiser Karl Nominates Pretty New Model Aide-de-Camp
I need an Aide-de-Camp. I don't have enough Camp in my life. Think RuPaul is available now that her show is done?
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CherriSpryte
03/25/09

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Ooohhh, this reminds me, I wanted to get a fish pedicure. Has anyone been to the one in Virginia?
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BellaTricks
03/25/09

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I was once rejected whilst trying to pick up a British boy with his saying "I only date the kind of girls that shop at Topshop, so you're not really my type."

I found it a little baffling, but maybe that's what he was going for.
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Beat Girl
03/25/09

@BellaTricks: You seriously dodged a bullet there. What a fucking numpty.
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keldo
03/25/09

@BellaTricks: I hope he was wearing acid wash jeans.
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Plum-Pie
03/25/09

@BellaTricks: He was obviously after a sheep, not a Jezebel.
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lilbobbytables
03/25/09

In reply to Kaiser Karl Nominates Pretty New Model Aide-de-Camp
Karl Lagerfield always makes me feel ashamed, as if he caught me doing something naughty. I think it probably has to do with my utter inability to look fierce or not like a five year old at any give time. Also, I was just fingerpainting on his office walls.
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argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw?
03/25/09

@lilbobbytables: he scares me a little. he's always in black, he's got the white hair in a dracula pompadour, and he might have the ability to turn one to stone by looking at them. maybe that's why he always wears dark glasses? i don't know.
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margareita metermaid
03/25/09

@argle-bargle? or fou-ferraw?: He kind of reminds me of Klaus Kinski's Nosferatu. In his pics, at least. Maybe that's one of his muses.
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travel_more
03/25/09

In reply to Kaiser Karl Nominates Pretty New Model Aide-de-Camp
"DSW, the discount shoe retailer, lost $7.5 million last quarter."

This is totes not my fault, as I feel like I spend money there pretty much every week. DSW, you own my soul, my feet and my pocketbook! Damn you!
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Le Coucher d'Yvette
03/25/09

@travel_more: their loss was completely due to them removing the store in my area. 30 minutes is just to far to drive.
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girlwithoutahero
03/25/09

In reply to Kaiser Karl Nominates Pretty New Model Aide-de-Camp
Dear Top Shop:

Please ship to Canada.

Much love

xoxoxoxo

everydaybrogues
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rd2uk
03/25/09

@everydaybrogues: they do ship to canada! but sometimes canadian customs tack on loads of taxes so its a tiny bit risky! Well, not risky if you dont mind paying taxes twice over!
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DutchessOfDork
03/25/09

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Madame du Pompadour was his maitresse en titre until her death. She did not physically have sex with him, but she was his best friend and confidant.

Louise O'Murphy was a temporary fling that was from Parc Aux Cerfs (essentially a brothel) set up by Pompadour.
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Rare Affinity
03/25/09

@DutchessOfDork: We appear to have been reading the same kind of books recently. I purse my lips up at modern good time gals but avidly read about the mistresses of Kings in the past with nary a tut tut.
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DutchessOfDork
03/25/09

@Rare Affinity: I tried reading Eleanor Herman's Sex with Kings, and I kept going NOOOOOOEZ!
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DutchessOfDork
03/25/09

@DutchessOfDork: Louise O'Murphy was also 13.

Kids these days.
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Fate'sBitch
03/25/09

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Fish Pedicures, was that a thing that people were doing? I missed that one entirely.
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Rare Affinity
03/25/09

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Madame de Pomadour may have stopped being the King's mistress through ill-health but she remained both his friend and his procuress until her own early death.
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tscheese
03/25/09

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Isn't TopShop somewhere I can go that is just like H&M but doesn't really have sizes I can wear or prices I can afford?
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Beat Girl
03/25/09

@tscheese: I would put Topshop somewhere between H&M and the dreaded American Apparel.
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vamusical
03/25/09

@tscheese: That is my limited understanding of them as well. Their prices are not that great.
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HillGirl
03/25/09

@tscheese: Yes, I just went on their webpage and they are a little expensive. A $100 dress, no thanks. I once bought 4 sweaters at H & M got that amount.
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Beat Girl
03/25/09

@vamusical: Yeah, even in the UK their prices have gone sucktastic in the past few years.
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Eeva
03/25/09

@tscheese: Perhaps, but it does have 1. great sales, and 2. gorgeous bags. Its bags turn me into Gollum, particularly the slouchy satchely ones.
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Le Coucher d'Yvette
03/25/09

@tscheese: When I was in London my bestie wanted to go to TopShop so bad and when we got there it was closed because of a threat of a bomb (someone was smoking in the lav, but it was right after the subway bombings) we went there the next day and I was completely meh. about it, but it was the craziest store I have ever been to in my life. I thought girls were just going to start taking off there clothes to try clothes on instead of wait in line.
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rosasparks
03/25/09

@Eeva: I turn into Gollum at TopShop, whenever I am across the pond. That place RULES for accessories.
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Eeva
03/25/09

@rosasparks looks like a Fraggle: I am daydreaming right now about the customised vintage clutches I saw recently in one of their bigger shops. I'm about thirty seconds away from stroking the air and crooning presssssshhhhhhious.
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rosasparks
03/25/09

@Eeva: I will concur with others about the lack of understanding the clothes sizing (UK clothes' sizes confound me, even moreso than US sizing, which is also a clusterfuck), but I have had good experiences finding clothes that fit my bod. And not to mention, I LOVE all the bags. They are FAB.

I am VERY short and VERY curvy, but have managed to get some CUTE stuff. rosasparks LOVES TopShop.
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BiteMeMitchell!
03/25/09

@Eeva: @rosasparks looks like a Fraggle: They do have really good shoes and you get the occasional gem of clothing, but it's very overpriced and the quality isn't great. But then maybe I'm just being contrary, as I'm sick of it being rammed down my throat constantly by the British fashion press as "OMG, the best thing EVER!!! !" I have similar reactions to Kate Moss' dress sense, the East End of London and Luella Bartley.
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bleedingmouths
03/25/09

@BiteMeMitchell!: haha, me too. I will click your heart for this declaration. Although I just bought a cute Luella jacket so I will kind of opt out of the Luella hate. Topshop quality is totally shoddy, the amount of gorgeous £50 shoes I've bought there in the spirit of hope.. that have immediately have bits fall off them. Same with Office though. I don't always mind Topshop prices, but... yeah, quality, not always so hot.
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Green Goth Brit Chick - AlternatEve
03/26/09

@bleedingmouths: I have a pair of topshop wedge sandals I bought about five years ago that are still going strong, but the flat sandals I got last year? Died.
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Beat Girl
03/25/09

In reply to Kaiser Karl Nominates Pretty New Model Aide-de-Camp
Fred Perry and Ben Sherman were some of the brands that were synonymous with football casuals and hooliganism in Britain in the 70s and 80s, as well as (and more notoriously) the Skinhead groups, some of which had neo-Nazi leaning. The Neo-Nazi groups of Germany et al seem to go for that aesthetic still, so I'm really not surprised at all.

Bum rap for Perry, since I love their retro lines.
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tscheese
03/25/09

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A pair of acid-washed jeans once jumped me in a dark alley and took my lunch money. Then it kicked some petunias and gave a puppy a nasty stare. Hasn't everyone had some horrible run in with acid-wash jeans?
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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
03/25/09

@tscheese: Acid-washed jeans assassinated JFK and Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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lilbobbytables
03/25/09

@tscheese: Man, a gang of acid-wash jeans gave me a swirley in grade school.
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BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
03/25/09

@tscheese: My first boyfriend was a pair of acid washed jeans. He was a bad kisser.
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rosasparks
03/25/09

@tscheese: I wore acid-washed, zipper up the sides, Guess jeans in elementary school.

I had no friends and everyone laughed at me.
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HillGirl
03/25/09

@tscheese: A pair tried to spiked the punch at my office christmas party last year. However, they were caught and reduced to acid washed jean shorts
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SylvanSylph
03/25/09

@tscheese: Nonono! My acid wash jeans are LOVE! I like to pair them with fancy blazers and pretty shoes and confuse the hell out of everyone. Confuse. Not torture puppies, give Indian sunburns, or assasinate world leaders. You shall not insult that which provides hilarity in my otherwise banal existence.

Thank you.
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BabyJane
03/25/09

@tscheese
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BabyJane
03/25/09

@tscheese: Acid-washed jeans are responsible for turning great books into terrible movies.

*My computer hates me today.
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Trulymadlyme
03/25/09

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Ben Sherman = Neo Nazi? For reals? Wow.
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HoooooooT
03/25/09

@trulymadlyme: I wonder if they can wear Hugo Boss, who was an actual Nazi...
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rd2uk
03/25/09

@trulymadlyme: bed sherman and fed perry are the hispter/indie uniform of choice where i live...weeeeeird about the supposed neo nazi connections!
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bleedingmouths
03/25/09

@trulymadlyme: skinheads in the uk love them
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Green Goth Brit Chick - AlternatEve
03/26/09

@bleedingmouths: They're just Chavs tho...
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