<p>nasty nate... you're a tool.</p>
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And who knew so many guys could talk about clothing stores this much? :P
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<p>Dressing well is important -- gotta make up for your other flaws.</p>
<p>You're in New York! Don't go to those chain stores! Go down to the East Village, or Nolita, or the Lower East Side! Look for interesting stuff--lots of it will be cheap, or at least on sale.</p>
<p>For example, find a Brooklyn Industries store.</p>
<p>"Go to Fifth/Madison in the 50's. You'll find everything from Banana Republic to Bergdorf Goodman."</p>
<p>This person is trying to burn a hole through your wallet. All there is on Madison is stores like Saks, Dior, Chanel, YSL, & Gucci. If you want good clothing at an affordable price take a trip down SoHO. Perhaps Urban Outffiters, Armani Exchange, H&M, Michael K. & many more.</p>
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You're in New York! Don't go to those chain stores! Go down to the East Village, or Nolita, or the Lower East Side! Look for interesting stuff--lots of it will be cheap, or at least on sale.</p>
<p>For example, find a Brooklyn Industries store.
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<p>Yeah, conformity blows. Silly hipsters.</p>
<p>Brooklyn Industries probably has the most overpriced hipster crap aside from Anthropologie. It definitely looks nice until you see the price tag. You can find better for less. Seriously, my flannel pajama pants look exactly the same as the **** in their store, only my pajamas cost 10 bucks and their pants cost 110. </p>
<p>The rule of restaurants applies to clothing as well. Look at who's shopping inside the store. Do you like the kind of clothing they're wearing? If the clientel have the style you want, you'll probably get some quality time shopping at the same stores.</p>
<p>And if you're going hipster, at least go all the way and go to Beacon's Closet or Buffalo Exchange or something and buy some used clothing. Clothing is cleaned so you don't have to worry about catching some disease and it's all extremely discounted. You can often find high end designer stuff for 90% of MSRP. The tradeoff being cosmetic damage, like small holes in hoodies or frayed hems on jeans.</p>
<p>Second the Soho request. I personally like Uniqlo a lot but you'll find a healthy selection from Zara's, AX, Banana, Urban, H&M and others.</p>
<p>Well, it takes all kinds, but it's odd to me that anybody could say Brooklyn Industries is overpriced but send somebody to AX. H&M does have good prices, and shopping there lets you wear the same stuff folks all across our fine nation are wearing. I agree with the point about used clothing, though. There are great sources in New York for that.</p>
<p>Well I compare prices across what I consider clothing genres. My argument is that for Brooklyn Industries, you can find much cheaper clothing that is similar at places like Beacon's Closet and Buffalo Exchange but you probably won't find that same style at AX. After all, when was the last time you saw a hipster dressing like a guido from Jersey?</p>
<p>If store A has cheaper clothing prices than store B, but store B sells the kinds of clothes that appeals to your personal taste, then you won't automatically start buying at store A just because the prices are lower. Across clothing in general, yes maybe store A is cheaper than store B but that doesn't necessarily mean you can substitute store A for store B. Maybe it's because you dislike the clothes at store A. Maybe the clothes at store A just wouldn't work well with your wardrobe you have already. Maybe store A employs sweatshop labor and for some reason, you refuse to shop at these kinds of stores. Maybe you got a skin disease the last time you shopped at store A. </p>
<p>So then, I should amend my statement. Brooklyn Industries is overpriced for the kind of clothing that it sells.</p>
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The rule of restaurants applies to clothing as well. Look at who's shopping inside the store. Do you like the kind of clothing they're wearing?
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<p>Huh? This makes no sense. What's the "rule of restaurants"? That you should eat at restaurants where you like how other diners appear, or that you should eat at restaurants where you like the food that the other diners are eating? If the former, that's retarded. If the latter, that's stating the obvious.</p>
<p>Alrighty then.</p>
<p>Let me put it this way. If you're in Chinatown and you want to find an authentic Chinese restaurant, are you going to go into the restaurant that's a linoleum cube filled with college kids waiting for their fix of General Tso's or the restaurant filled with Chinese people?</p>
<p>It's a similar matter for clothing. If you like a certain style or fashion of clothes, then you can make some categorical judgments about stores based on the kind of people they attract, specifically what those people are wearing.</p>
<p>If we're using restaurant analogies, H&M is kind of like Olive Garden. Perfectly fine, not too expensive. Conveniently located in a mall setting.
But again, you're in New York. Why would you want to eat at Olive Garden when there are thousands of more interesting places that don't exist anywhere else? Shopping is the same way.</p>
<p>If you have taste you can shop anywhere though, It's New York you're bound to find something and of course it's really about personal preference. I like Urban, but that's because I don't have the money to shop at really expensive boutiques, but If I did believe me I be in lanvin and ferragamo for sure.</p>
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Let me put it this way. If you're in Chinatown and you want to find an authentic Chinese restaurant, are you going to go into the restaurant that's a linoleum cube filled with college kids waiting for their fix of General Tso's or the restaurant filled with Chinese people?
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<p>Your Chinatown factoid doesn't make your statement sensible. (BTW, there aren't really restaurants in Chinatown with a bunch of white people eating General Tso's.)</p>
<p>I don't think I've seen a single French patron in either Daniel or Jean Georges any of the times I've been there (besides Daniel himself, who was eating). Does that mean that those restaurants -- which have received great acclaim by French critics -- aren't authentic French restaurants?</p>
<p>Your "rule of restaurants" just makes no sense. Why don't you try to state what you contend to be the "rule," rather than "put[ting] it this way" and giving an example of a rule that none of us understand.</p>
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If we're using restaurant analogies, H&M is kind of like Olive Garden. Perfectly fine, not too expensive. Conveniently located in a mall setting.
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<p>OMG, in what universe is Olive Garden "perfectly fine"? It's absolutely disgusting trash.</p>
<p>Unlimited soup, salad and breadsticks is a solid deal. The food there tastes so fake that it's good. If you don't like it C02, then I'd be more than happy to hear your suggestions.</p>
<p>How do you know there are no French patrons? Do you know what all French people look like? Did you ask every single person there if they were French? How about your claim that it has received great praise from French critics? Who's eating at these restaurants? In your anecdote, the critics are the authorities for what's good French food and what isn't. In my anecdote, the authorities on authentic Chinese food are Chinese people. </p>
<p>I'm sorry if my examples don't make any sense to you. I think we can leave it at that.</p>
<p>...eBay---hoodies don't exactly need to be perfect fit. Pick one, pay, wait. Good to go.</p>
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I'm sorry if my examples don't make any sense to you. I think we can leave it at that.
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<p>Examples of what? You still haven't articulated the "rule" to which you are giving an example. </p>
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Unlimited soup, salad and breadsticks is a solid deal. The food there tastes so fake that it's good. If you don't like it C02, then I'd be more than happy to hear your suggestions.
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<p>You can get unlimited food at the Sizzler or Columbia dining hall; that doesn't make it good.</p>
<p>My suggestions for good Italian? Assaggi or Sala e Pepe in London are recent favorites. Probably better than any Italian I've had in NYC. In NYC, Batali's not "traditional" Italian, but he serves a great product.</p>
<p>Again, you're in New York. Don't eat at Olive Garden (if there even is one). Find some little place in a neighborhood. You want a T-shirt? Don't go the Gap and buy one with a fake print; go down to Union Square and buy one from a guy who screen-prints them himself.</p>
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Again, you're in New York. Don't eat at Olive Garden (if there even is one).
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<p>There's one in Times Square. It's full of obese midwestern tourists.</p>
<p>But the minestrone soup at Olive Garden is so gooddd</p>