Recommendations for personal shoppers

[Undisputedtruth]

dulwichgirl2 Wrote:

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> El Pibe, your "knowledgeable customer" post was

> hilarious.

Completely wrong in my case. In one particular shop in Crouch End, the manager gave a talk about his current line up of jeans, why they were special in terms of fabric and manufacturing. He also played some great Soul music during the time. Just goes to show how people with great taste in music have great taste in clothes. I'm pretty certain ????s will confirm this.

@Ms B

I believe in self-empowerment and my comments on stylists were geared towards your self-empowerment.

I also fully agree with your comments on bullying and a group of people bigging themselves up on this forum thinking they have a god given right to be the forum's mouth piece. The other thread involved passive aggression towards me but at the same time they were exposed for being a group of people bigging themselves without having any particular skill, talent or knowledge themselves.

[MrBen]

Undisputedtruth Wrote:

> Just goes to show how people with great taste in

> music have great taste in clothes. I'm pretty

> certain ????s will confirm this.

I can confirm this for you UDT. ???? dresses in the finest Italian suits with a high thread count and silk content. He knows too well that the mix of fibres should be sufficient to maintain the shape of the cut whilst cooling in summer and providing a subtle aesthetic/luxurious feel. But catch him on a Saturday and he looks like a man who's been dragged through a Las Vegas poker house via Sports Direct.

His taste in music is however always impeccable.

[red devil]

UDT and new best friend ????, get ready to tear up the Lane...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UmjEL8ZNNy4/T6M8q06FsjI/AAAAAAAAAas/TRl4F-iyKYA/s1600/brothers+johnson+-+sucking+in+the+70

''Lookin' 'fly ????!!''

''Yeah, but are you sure this boot polish won't wash off in the rain?''

[david_carnell]

MrBen Wrote:

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> But catch him on a Saturday and he looks like a man

> who's been dragged through a Las Vegas poker house

> via Sports Direct.

Genius.

[Undisputedtruth]

Ah Brothers Johnson.

Here's Louis Johnson who can still kick it on bass.

 

[Loz]

Just goes to show how people who think they have great taste in music also think they have great taste in clothes.

Every else thinks they are preening tossers that listen to pretentious crap.

[Undisputedtruth]

A masterclass in bass playing.

 

[Otta]

Can you play bass UDT? (Genuine question)

[Undisputedtruth]

Loz Wrote:

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> Just goes to show how people who think they have

> great taste in music also think they have great

> taste in clothes.

>

> Every else thinks they are preening tossers that

> listen to pretentious crap.

Nah, Loz, only the style challenged thinks that.

[Jeremy]

I am most definitely style challenged! But not really too bothered by the fact.

I don't think soul music's crap or pretentious though. I really like a lot of the northern soul stuff (not really a fan of disco or all that 70s club soul stuff though).

[Undisputedtruth]

I can too Northern soul too.

But now I'm funkin'.

 

[El Pibe]

I was going to post another bass masterclass from youtube, but sadly it has been removed. Boooo mike!!!

[Brendan]

This all seems too expensive and pretentious for me. What if you just like normal things like loud shouty music and not wearing trousers?

[El Pibe]

I like pretentious music but resent paying more than a fiver on any piece of clothing.

[Undisputedtruth]

Pretentious music = commercial music

Funk = connoisseurs' music

[Otta]

Everybody's taste = different

Different taste does not = superior.

A lot (not all) "commercial music" is commercial because it's good and a lot of people wanted to buy it and listen to it. Not all commercial music is produced by the likes of Simon Cowell.

['bout now]

Undisputedtruth Wrote:

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> Pretentious music = commercial music

>

> Funk = connoisseurs' music

= Pretentious bollox. Ironic really.

[KidKruger]

I've been to a few of the 'jazz in the Round' evenings at th Cockpit this summer, far from commercial but some of if for me is quite prenentious.

Therefore Pretentious music = NON-commercial music too.

[Brendan]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> I like pretentious music but resent paying more

> than a fiver on any piece of clothing.

Indeed and many of us learned a long time ago that if you buy your clothes at Asda you have a lot more money to spend on Genesis tapes.

As demonstrated by the picture you posted earlier.

[Undisputedtruth]

'bout now Wrote:

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> Undisputedtruth Wrote:

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> > Pretentious music = commercial music

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> > Funk = connoisseurs' music

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> = Pretentious bollox. Ironic really.

Show me a commercial music bass player who can play the bass better than Louis Johnson?

[MrBen]

Back on topic.

I'm pretty certain I will never go into some west end shops because they are playing really loud, crappy MTV muzak. It's supposed to entive people in but just has the opposite effect on me.

But that's because I'm that 35 year old guy still wandering around River Island gradually realising that I cant wear any of it any more (and should have quit at about 27). When you get older it gets much harder so most people (if they ever cared about clothes) just become boring and play it safe. A personal shopper sounds poncy but they can help with that and find stuff in places you wouldn't normally go and break you out of a rut.

[red devil]

Using UDT's twisted logic...'Stomp' was a commercial hit for the Brothers Johnson...ergo Brothers Johnson = pretentious

['bout now]

Undisputedtruth Wrote:

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> 'bout now Wrote:

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> > > Pretentious music = commercial music

> > >

> > > Funk = connoisseurs' music

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> > = Pretentious bollox. Ironic really.

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> Show me a commercial music bass player who can

> play the bass better than Louis Johnson?

You think you have "special taste" in that you are somehow more enlightened than others.

Pretentious Bollox.

[Undisputedtruth]

Show me the money?

['bout now]

Please tell me how that bet would be judged?

My taste is better than your taste futility shocker.