What is the danger in tuning in to Lifetime? That you'd have to see commercials for grody uncool Lifetime shows about ladystuff instead of that smarmy "Only on Bravo. Watch what happens" guy?
PS: TopShop don't make their own accessories - Freedom Jewellery is a concession (used to work for the concession company - some of the store managers DESPISED us because we'd often have better sales figures than them during "hard" times)
I like TopShop's denim A LOT. The quality and styles are pretty good, and they come in a 30-inch inseam when usually I can't find anything below 32. So I am all about their jeans and don't bother buying denim anywhere else.
But the rest of their clothes are pretty hit and miss, IMO. Most of it is kind of tacky and wouldn't be appropriate for anybody but a sixteen-year-old girl in London. I used to shop there because it was the best option I had. Do you like hot pink satin and ruffly miniskirts and peacoats? You'll love TopShop. But otherwise... meh. And the shoes are very cheap-looking, although the price doesn't reflect that.
@vanka-vstanka: You forgot to say SKINNY 16-year-old girl in London. Although my husband's teenage cousins in Leeds and their friends dress that way, too.
The last time I went in TopShop the most exciting thing was the candy they sell by the sales counter.
Where is the rest of Britney? Didn't everyone all pretty much agree that a real life Barbie would fall over? Well I submit that a real life Britney in those proportions would fall over too.
It's not bad enough that "stars" are encouraged to become toothpicks, do we have to photoshop them to half the size of toothpicks??????
@Tart of Darkness: The Candie's ads are awful for whittling stars down to where they're barely recognizable. I wouldn't be so mad about it, except that I remember when I was 13, posting one of their Jenny McCarty ads up in my room so it would remind me to stay on my diet. I was 105 pounds and I din't think I was thin enough. It is really kind of evil to present that impossibly thin and poreless image as the beauty ideal to girls.
I can't get behind the TopShop mania. It sounds like a nightmarish miasma of crowding, clothes that wouldn't fit me at my very thinnest, and H&M quality at J. Crew prices. No thanks.
Not that it really matters, considering where she is and what she's doing, but still: what the hell is Madonna wearing in Africa? Fannypacks? Pareos? Knee high laceup boots? Wealth is wasted on the wrong people. All that money, and she doesn't know a good outfit if she sees one.
Anyone larger than a size 10 hoping to find a cute outfit at Top Shop is going to be sorely disappointed.
I shopped at the Oxford Circus store last summer. The accessories department was amazing, but their clothing stops at a UK size 16, or an American 12. It's a small 12 though, so more like a 10.
I bought a necklace and a pair of ballet flats. Like Beth Ditto I guess they don't want me wearing their cool clothes.
Was la Moss's triple-Topshop change an homage to Michelle Obama? We're gonna go with, "no."
Of course it was, sillies! Just like how Gwyneth's horrid gladiator booties are a tribute to Beatrix Potter, Madonna's fanny pack is a tribute to Queen Victoria, and LiLo's spray tan line is a tribute to Mount Everest. Also, various other examples that make NO. SENSE. AT. ALL.
Obviously, Kate changing into three outfits at the Topshop opening does not have anything to do with Michelle Obama. She is the harbinger of death, like Kara Thrace on Battlestar Galactica. Tee three outfits are like the three wise men who visited the Baby Jeebus. But instead of gold, frankincense and myrrh, we have Kate's gifts of tights, dress and jacket. These three things are like the three clicks of Dorothy's red shoes in the Wizard of Oz, which is about evil little people who kidnap nice Kansas farmgirls. Nice farmgirls is what The Princess Bride is about, so it's not inconceivable that Kate is actually a fairy tale princess. Fairy tales also contain evil little people, as does the new cycle of America's Next Top Model. So as you can see, Kate's fairy godmother is Tyra Banks, which can only lead us to one conclusion, which is that Kate is the antichrist.
@AtomiClash: I don't hate it, but I dont get what the fuss is about either. I had access for years though, so maybe it is just that the novelty isnt there. It is like H&M to me.
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But the rest of their clothes are pretty hit and miss, IMO. Most of it is kind of tacky and wouldn't be appropriate for anybody but a sixteen-year-old girl in London. I used to shop there because it was the best option I had. Do you like hot pink satin and ruffly miniskirts and peacoats? You'll love TopShop. But otherwise... meh. And the shoes are very cheap-looking, although the price doesn't reflect that.
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The last time I went in TopShop the most exciting thing was the candy they sell by the sales counter.
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I shopped at the Oxford Circus store last summer. The accessories department was amazing, but their clothing stops at a UK size 16, or an American 12. It's a small 12 though, so more like a 10.
I bought a necklace and a pair of ballet flats. Like Beth Ditto I guess they don't want me wearing their cool clothes.
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Of course it was, sillies! Just like how Gwyneth's horrid gladiator booties are a tribute to Beatrix Potter, Madonna's fanny pack is a tribute to Queen Victoria, and LiLo's spray tan line is a tribute to Mount Everest. Also, various other examples that make NO. SENSE. AT. ALL.
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I'm looking at you, Forever21