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Ridiculous Decadency
öde:
There's a shop in Bournemouth called 'Clone Zone.'
SeanBateman:
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--- Quote from: Dirk Hopeless on 15 Mar 2008, 11:04 ---Explain this, because it makes no sense.
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Fashion as in 'the Fashion', you know, the one that changes arbitrarily every six weeks or so at the whim of some coke-snorting cocksuckers in New York and Paris. Yay, taste that's disposable! Yay, looking the same!
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But how is that different? You "look the same" as most other metal fans to the average person who isn't in touch with that culture, I am sure. And while the style might not change as often, I am willing to bet that you to some degree follow the sea change in that culture. What is the difference between following a taste that makes you happy and is originated by people in New York vs people in Norway or whatever? I love "The Fashion," although I tend to work more on predicting it than following it, just because I'd much rather be ahead of a trend than in it.
Note, I realize there are a lot of generalizations in that papargraph, but please don't take it as an attack. Purely me wondering where you see the difference between your $200 boots and my $200 sneakers.
KharBevNor:
My boots cost like, £40.
It's ridiculous because fashion is essentially controlled by a tiny elite who are both the creators and arbitors of taste and have everyone else running around behind them at their whim as they indulge in novelty for novelties sake. It's like fine art, but less durable.
littlelove:
my impulse buy was my big red bong.
$70, and I barely use it because I can't smoke indoors and it is too awkward to carry around.
Ozymandias:
Fashion to me is a man standing next to a river and every so often he declares that the water flowing by him at that exact second is the best water you will ever taste and everyone pays $500 to taste the water before it goes past him because once it's past him it doesn't taste as good.
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