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I've always been a sucker for faux fur and find TopShops to be lovely and much better quality than other simular retailers.
It was always a big deal as a teenager to be able to buy something from there. Equally as a small child I remember waiting outside in the Harlequin center while my super trendy mum spent ages in there. Any time I was going somewhere which required me to wear a dress, I would be downstairs in the flagship Oxford Street store to buy one. So many dresses there for every taste possible!
I am sad to see it go and have only ever made purchases in store. I like their make up too, it is expensive for high street store branded make up but some of it is excellent. I am impressed with their highlighter glow pots. I often avoid high street costume jewellery but I have seen how expensive some of it is in there. TopShop on a whole quite expensive, like River Island but the quality is superior to the likes of New Look, etc. And I have to say as a high street store, it just doesn't grab me in like it did 10 years ago - the image of my local high street one has very Burton / Dorothy Perkings / Next vibes if people understand what I mean. It seems lately full of office and night out wear but lacking in casual, it might have a couple of nice coats in the winter but that's about it these days!
It was always a big deal as a teenager to be able to buy something from there. Equally as a small child I remember waiting outside in the Harlequin center while my super trendy mum spent ages in there. Any time I was going somewhere which required me to wear a dress, I would be downstairs in the flagship Oxford Street store to buy one. So many dresses there for every taste possible!
I am sad to see it go and have only ever made purchases in store. I like their make up too, it is expensive for high street store branded make up but some of it is excellent. I am impressed with their highlighter glow pots. I often avoid high street costume jewellery but I have seen how expensive some of it is in there. TopShop on a whole quite expensive, like River Island but the quality is superior to the likes of New Look, etc. And I have to say as a high street store, it just doesn't grab me in like it did 10 years ago - the image of my local high street one has very Burton / Dorothy Perkings / Next vibes if people understand what I mean. It seems lately full of office and night out wear but lacking in casual, it might have a couple of nice coats in the winter but that's about it these days!
I loved Topshop when I was a teenager, but it was always too expensive for me. I remember when I was 14, I had about £15, so I bought 2 vests in pink and red to wear on holiday. I used the carrier bag as my PE bag for school.
The only thing I've bought from there in recent years are earrings.
The only thing I've bought from there in recent years are earrings.
I bought a top from Topshop when I was 15 in 1997 and it lasted for years. I can’t imagine anything lasting that long now. Their jeans were always really good quality, I still have the last pair I bought from there around three years ago. The similar priced ones I got from River Island only lasted a few months! I think they just lost their way and didn‘t embrace online shopping fast enough.
I don’t know if I’m just getting old but I really dislike BooHoo etc. I find their stuff a bit trashy and very much designed for the gaze of men than the the comfort and style of women, or maybe that’s just me?
I don’t know if I’m just getting old but I really dislike BooHoo etc. I find their stuff a bit trashy and very much designed for the gaze of men than the the comfort and style of women, or maybe that’s just me?
Me neither, Boohoo, Oh Polly, Pretty little thing all look identical. Looks like the kind of stuff they have in low rent shopping centre clothes shops like Salford Precinct or on market stalls.
BooBoo, Misguided, Isawitfirst, Pretty Little Thing etc. Like you say, all the same. Topshop always had its own distinctive style, as did River Island and New Look etc. Now it seems they all want to look like something from Love Island.
Like many of you I used to love Topshop but lately it's not the same. I prefer the bigger stores that carry other brands inside them rather than the actual Topshop clothes these days.
I still love River Island, still good quality clothes and they still have quite an identity imo.
They are all the same crap and the quality is atrocious 90% of the time! Everything I ever bought from those shops has fallen apart pretty quick or was never wearable to begin with.
I still love River Island, still good quality clothes and they still have quite an identity imo.
I’m so sad about Warehouse and Oasis! They were pricey but the quality was better than other brands. I did one Oasis order since Boohoo acquired them and omg the stuff was shocking, one dress was crumpled up in a ball and stank of stale cigs, obviously been worn
I really dislike Boohoo but I'm partial to a large plain white Tshirt and Tshirt dresses and I don't like to spend a fortune on those. It was also great for maternity. But I do agree though, the likes of Boohoo, PLT, MissGuided, Nasty Gal, there are so many out there that are the same and it is as described in an earlier comment - tacky market tat. The leggings are always ridiculously opaque, I bought some bog standard cycling shorts from both PLT and Boohoo, the crotches on them were huge! Primark have some good thick leggings. I've learnt to avoid any fashion wear from the above as it all seems to be made of this cheap, swim wear like material. I do have a friend, who is a curvier lady and she raves about Boohoo, being able to find her sizes and so on. And tbh she honestly wears their clothes well.
From TopShop, the coats with faux fur hoods I find are extra special and I've been through a few. I have a high waisted pair of jeans that have been kicking around for over a decade while I de/fluctuate in weight. And I still have a grecian style dress and a club wear dress with a huge neon pink bow at the back that I bought from there over a decade and have never been able to part with them because of how hard I saved for them back in the day
From TopShop, the coats with faux fur hoods I find are extra special and I've been through a few. I have a high waisted pair of jeans that have been kicking around for over a decade while I de/fluctuate in weight. And I still have a grecian style dress and a club wear dress with a huge neon pink bow at the back that I bought from there over a decade and have never been able to part with them because of how hard I saved for them back in the day
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I think it's a real shame for the high street.
I never really loved it, but got plenty of clothes there when I was younger. I do think it was too expensive for the quality though. For those prices I want to item to last longer than a season.
Others here must remember 'Tammy Girl'?!
I never really loved it, but got plenty of clothes there when I was younger. I do think it was too expensive for the quality though. For those prices I want to item to last longer than a season.
Others here must remember 'Tammy Girl'?!
Loved Tammy Girl!
Boohoo brand is all the same, they own Nasty Gal, Missguided, Prettylittlething and many more etc that’s why it all looks the same cheap tat because it is! It’s really crap clothing usually shown on awful so called ‘models’ or influencers.
It’s such a shame that we are heading this way to such fast fashion, it’s always getting criticised but people still buy it. As soon as the shops re open the queues will be a mile long outside Primark..why?
Call me old fashioned but I still like to see clothing modelled on attractive fashion models not some over made up, overweight influencer because it’s the thing to do. You like to imagine you will look as good as the model, I also know from experience that items advertised and shown on everyday people do not sell as well as a beautiful model.
It’s such a shame that we are heading this way to such fast fashion, it’s always getting criticised but people still buy it. As soon as the shops re open the queues will be a mile long outside Primark..why?
Call me old fashioned but I still like to see clothing modelled on attractive fashion models not some over made up, overweight influencer because it’s the thing to do. You like to imagine you will look as good as the model, I also know from experience that items advertised and shown on everyday people do not sell as well as a beautiful model.
I have noticed what passes as a model these days have heavily declined. I remember models were hired for distinct, often unusual and always natural beauty and I miss that too. Now it seems like everyone modelling clothes have that uniform lip job and have badly done orange drag make up on. Taking real women too far by actually recreating personal bedroom selfies in some of their nightwear and lingerie poses in particular. Very trashy.
Saaaaame! Topshop was so popular with the girls in my year. If you came to school with a topshop bag you were cool
Yes and I believe Victoria’s Secret got unfairly slated for their models. I find their women gorgeous. Ann Summers must have picked up on this as all their models now are different sizes. Larger girls felt VS didn’t include them but as a skinny minnie with a 32a cup size, I have never found my bra size in VS neither. Even major retailers like River Island, Oasis before its demise etc seem to use normal girls pics obviously to save on paying models. IG girls want to raise their following and the brands want to save costs, capitalism at its finest
Yes! Models always had a really other worldly look. They were tall and had long limbs, high cheekbones, glossy hair etc. They were different to the pretty girls you saw everyday, that’s why they were models and the rest of us mere mortals weren’t! And more importantly they were born like that! No plastic surgery, all natural!Those kind of models do still exist and the high fashion industry still uses them in fairness, but sometimes I wonder where BooHoo etc find the ‘models’ they use?
Seeing Instagram influencers model clothes has the complete opposite to the desired effect on me. I would never buy anything worn by an influencer because I don’t agree with their morals.
I was once a very slender girl and have in the past struggled to put weight on, I had severe issues around it too, most of my clothes at that time came from Matalan kids. I literally had no boobs at all when I was suffering a breakdown. I found if anything when it came to lingerie modeling, it wasn't very inclusive of flat chested women.
No I agree actually. It honestly puts me off buying from places that don't bother to get real models and just use influencers instead. It's a sign that the clothes are cheap market quality clothing that isn't worth bothering with. Anything I've bought from those sites has been awful! Looks nothing like it does on the influencer.
It's getting harder these days to shop online. All the clothes are cheap crap. Anyone know any good online shops?
I buy a lot from different brands on ASOS, including TopShop despite the quality seeming to have decreased with certain items.
Everything is just cheap tat these days.
I bet Matt would like to see you in something from BooHoo
.Seriously though BooHo and PLT are for teenage girls IMO, Topshop used to sell great basic wear like Zara do but it went too fashion forward IMO and was all tie dye, festival crap.