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Amin Yapusi said:
They do, in the short gap between hairdryer and straighteners.
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My Missus has spent our marriage trying to hide how much she spends on frillies, fripperies and frivolities from me.

I'm a guy with a modern outlook, and like to give a lady her head, so I know her frail female psyche needs 'nice things' and trinkets in order to be fulfilled but, even so, I was somewhat taken aback when I deduced that she'd invested over a monkey in a single hairdryer and a single pair of hair straighteners.

James Dyson, you are either a megacunt or a genius. I can't actually work out which.
 
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Any idea when that retro tracky top goes on sale?

It’s not for me, my middle age paunch( that word is not used enough) would be extenuated and make me a point of ridicule, I fear.

I’m going to get one for my London dwelling son, who said he would don it with pride in the pubs and wine bars of Barnes and Putney.

<laugh><laugh><laugh><laugh><laugh><laugh>

As if they’d let the Northern oik in wearing that.
 
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Carmine Galante. said:
Any idea when that retro tracky top goes on sale?

It’s not for me, my middle age paunch( that word is not used enough) would be extenuated and make me a point of ridicule, I fear.

I’m going to get one for my London dwelling son, who said he would don it with pride in the pubs and wine bars of Barnes and Putney.

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As if they’d let the Northern oik in wearing that.
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I don’t know if extenuated is the correct word to use there. I’m a bottle and half of red and two bottles of Weston’s super strength cider in and my faculties are somewhat muddled.
 
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Ernie Shackleton said:
My Missus has spent our marriage trying to hide how much she spends on frillies, fripperies and frivolities from me.

I'm a guy with a modern outlook, and like to give a lady her head, so I know her frail female psyche needs 'nice things' and trinkets in order to be fulfilled but, even so, I was somewhat taken aback when I deduced that she'd invested over a monkey in a single hairdryer and a single pair of hair straighteners.

James Dyson, you are either a megacunt or a genius. I can't actually work out which.
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Surely you're not another victim of the 'air wrap'?

Joke of a machine I could create with a normal hairdryer and a wisk
 
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Amin Yapusi said:
All fashion is going back 80’s. Probably because of stranger things? All the young lads are wearing granny hairstyles. Socks pulled up to their knees with shorts. A lot more retro kinda stuff being worn.
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Stranger Things. <laugh> That was popular maybe 8 years ago.
 
SydneyTiger14 said:
Stranger Things. <laugh> That was popular maybe 8 years ago.
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Fashion seems to go in a 30 year cycle. Obviously it changes each revolution but it's a pattern you see repeating itself when you live long enough.

I was told in the 90s it was the new 60s for example (not that I was born in the 60s) and there were cultural references to that era in fashion and the popular arts of the day etc.

This is the first time I've really seen it happening first hand but there's a definite nod to 80s and 90s culture again now.

Its possibly driven by the fact those who remembered it first time around are in the prime mid-life crisis market, where the kids have gone and you get actual disposable income again.

Hence band reunions, retro gear etc.

Just ask lambo about it and his hairdryers....

Maybe that's the cynic in me, but maybe there's something to it after all.
 
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If fashion goes in 30 year cycles then we're squarely back into the 90s. However most fashion trends I've seen are call backs to my childhood in the 00s.
 
Carmine Galante. said:
Any idea when that retro tracky top goes on sale?

It’s not for me, my middle age paunch( that word is not used enough) would be extenuated and make me a point of ridicule, I fear.

I’m going to get one for my London dwelling son, who said he would don it with pride in the pubs and wine bars of Barnes and Putney.

<laugh><laugh><laugh><laugh><laugh><laugh>

As if they’d let the Northern oik in wearing that.
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On now...

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Amin Yapusi said:
As you literally live under a rock, I’ll let you off for being 8 years behind the times.

I won’t give you any spoilers but there are 4 series of it now.
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I'm aware mate, it's not been a cutting edge show since its first season, so if you think people's fashions in 2023 are based on Stranger Things then you do you.

As OLM said, there's actually 5 seasons so if you're going to try to be a smart arse at least get your facts straight. <laugh>
 
There are only 4 seasons of Stranger Things actually out. Season 5 is a way off being released yet. The last one came out last summer, and it was hugely popular, as will the next one be, so I think it's odd to suggest it's not a current show or that it couldn't affect current trends.
 
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SydneyTiger14 said:
I'm aware mate, it's not been a cutting edge show since its first season, so if you think people's fashions in 2023 are based on Stranger Things then you do you.

As OLM said, there's actually 5 seasons so if you're going to try to be a smart arse at least get your facts straight. <laugh>
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As I said, you live under a rock. It has grown in popularity with every series with the most recent one being one of the most popular things on the planet. Clearly it will have an influence on current fashion, as can obviously be seen.

I particularly like your last line. Send us a link to watch series 5 please.

Oh wait, it doesn’t exist. It’s not even been written yet <doh>

Silly ****.
 
Amin Yapusi said:
As I said, you live under a rock. It has grown in popularity with every series with the most recent one being one of the most popular things on the planet. Clearly it will have an influence on current fashion, as can obviously be seen.

I particularly like your last line. Send us a link to watch series 5 please.

Oh wait, it doesn’t exist. It’s not even been written yet <doh>

Silly ****.
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It's a good show but if you seriously think people are basing their fashion on a show that started in what, 2015? You're having a laugh.

There's 5 seasons, just because the 5th hasn't been released yet doesn't make that any less true. :)

Time to go back to those maths classes your parents had to have a talk to you about.
 
SydneyTiger14 said:
It's a good show but if you seriously think people are basing their fashion on a show that started in what, 2015? You're having a laugh.

There's 5 seasons, just because the 5th hasn't been released yet doesn't make that any less true. :)

Time to go back to those maths classes your parents had to have a talk to you about.
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You’ve just suggested the second most watched tv show of all time isn’t very popular, and still trying to claim it hasn’t affected current fashion trends despite it being pretty ****ing obvious to anyone with a pair of eyes it has.

Just admit you said something stupid, you were completely wrong, and move on.
 
I remember the kappa trousers that buttoned up the side

Are they back in fashion
 
Amin Yapusi said:
You’ve just suggested the second most watched tv show of all time isn’t very popular, and still trying to claim it hasn’t affected current fashion trends despite it being pretty ****ing obvious to anyone with a pair of eyes it has.

Just admit you said something stupid, you were completely wrong, and move on.
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If you say so. It's daft to think a show that started 8 years ago is still impacting fashion just because City are releasing a garish jumper. As I said, you might have had a point 8 years ago when 80s fashion did have a big boost - there was a wave of 80s nostalgia in media like Wonder Woman, Ready Player One, etc. but culture has moved past that. Just because Stranger Things hasn't finished yet doesn't mean ****.

Time to move on though. You think I said something daft, I think you said something daft. I'm sure everyone else thinks we're both being daft.
 
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