Fashion and Style in Poland

JaneMay	Mar 27, 08, 06:09 #1
What are peoples general thoughts on style and fashion in Poland.

braziliiThreads: 8 Posts: 103 Joined: Mar 14, 08 ♀	Mar 27, 08, 06:20 #2
I think if you go to some small villages, it`s a bit dated, but in big cities is as in any other city in Europe. What I can`t stand is the 2 colour hair for girls and really tight pants for boys...Why is that??? Even my husband who is from Poland doesn`t get it!

ShelleySThreads: 18 Posts: 3,647 Joined: Jun 26, 07 ♀	Mar 27, 08, 06:45 #3
JaneMay wrote: What are peoples general thoughts on style and fashion in Poland. I've only ever been to the cities and they are just the same as any other city in Europe I have visited in terms of shops, the designer shops are expensive and the more down market shops are cheapers...

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Mar 27, 08, 07:10 #4

there have been previous threads on this if you check. There are obviously differences in prices, but I do think that personal styles in Poland differ too, especially from the UK. You can see the difference in the clothes of Poles newly arrived in the UK to those who have been here for some time. Again, of course it depends on where they come from.. I imagine fashion is not so important in a rural area or even small provincial town as it is in bigger cities..much like everywhere really.

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Mar 27, 08, 07:56 #5

Most people dress the same in Warsaw. I think this is to do with the fact that the market is saturated by the same few stores like Esprit, Zara, H&M and as for the bizarre import Italian pimp and wh@re shoe stores they are just not worth mentioning! Every mall has exactly the same stores. Very few people trying to be stylish or 'different'. This is something I really, really miss from the UK, unique creative folk who brighten up your day as they jaunt past you in the street! Of course students just dress like students and trolls just dress like trolls.

braziliiThreads: 8 Posts: 103 Joined: Mar 14, 08 ♀	Mar 27, 08, 08:15 #6
That`s true, there is no 'different' shop in Poland... haven`t realized... If anybody knows of any, please let me know :)

GoonieThreads: 10 Posts: 297 Joined: Mar 6, 07 ♂	Mar 27, 08, 09:26 #7
brazilii wrote: really tight pants for boys its a new skater fashion, almost all skaters now wear tight jeans :D

braziliiThreads: 8 Posts: 103 Joined: Mar 14, 08 ♀	Mar 27, 08, 09:30 #8
I`m not talking about skinny jeans... I`m talking about really thight pants which are not supposed to be tight. Terrible!

away guyThreads: 12 Posts: 392 Joined: Mar 16, 07 ♂	Mar 27, 08, 09:30 #9
That new fashion the guys are wearing looks so gay and f u cked up the tight jeans and and stupid scarfs , whats happening here is the world turning gay is the youth going mad i think so .......... its sick !!!!

sapphireThreads: 28 Posts: 1,418 Joined: Dec 7, 06 ♀	Mar 27, 08, 09:33 #10
away guy wrote: whats happening here is the world turning gay is the youth going mad i think so .......... its sick !!!! no, its just cos you are from SA, where they have no fashion sense whatsoever! Seems to me that the same fashions hit Poland on average about 2 years after they are popular in the UK.

away guyThreads: 12 Posts: 392 Joined: Mar 16, 07 ♂	Mar 27, 08, 09:37 #11
I must say poland has great quality of clothes and the woman and girls dress fancy , however that gots nothing to do with guys dressing like girls that is sick man !!!! When i was a that age and i came home looking like that my dad wud have smacked my ass , these days its all going down the drain these youngsters that are dressed like clowns they wont even get jobs because they look like idiots

MagdalenaThreads: 5 Posts: 1,365 Joined: Aug 15, 07 ♀	Mar 27, 08, 12:12 #12
Goonie wrote: I`m not talking about skinny jeans... I`m talking about really thight pants which are not supposed to be tight. ...how can you tell the difference? ;-) Seriously, I tried visualising that and failed miserably...

ZgubionyThreads: 21 Posts: 2,037 Joined: Oct 20, 06 ♂	Edited by: Zgubiony Mar 27, 08, 12:42 #13
Ok. The skaters/emo's wear girls jeans and are a xtra- slim fit. I think he's talking about grown men that wear jeans they've worn since elementary school.

LondonChickThreads: 43 Posts: 1,261 Joined: Nov 19, 07 ♀	Mar 27, 08, 12:49 #14
This is a very interesting question... I am quite a flamboyant dresser... lots of faux fur, leopard print, Emilio Pucci print, platform boots, OTT make-up etc. in London (but not all at the same time, you understand LOL!!), but I do tend to tone things down a bit when I travel to Poland. What would happen if, say I went out in Warsaw dressed a little more flamboyantly? Would I get "evils"? :D

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Mar 27, 08, 14:51 #15

I think you have the wrong idea about Poland and clothes. I daresay most people couldn't care less what you're wearing, unless it's totally unsuited to the weather ;-) Most non-Poles on PF tend to see Poland as a frumpy, old-fashioned and conservative country, which I can assure you is far from the truth. Catholics tend to have the wildest ideas ;-)))
BTW, I have yet to see really interesting street fashion in London. Most of the time it's totally boring and slavishly copies any current trend, like the boho style that was all the rage two years ago (thankfully now in decline). I am unable to find interesting clothes here, either they are extremely expensive, or affordable but run of the mill. Instead of returning to Poland in trendy London clothes, I find myself bringing back from Poland any clothes I might have left there and/or buying new stuff... ;-)
British fashion I think is quite unique but not necessarily flattering...

WroclawThreads: 74 Posts: 7,272 Joined: Apr 1, 06 ♂ [Moderator]	Mar 27, 08, 15:09 #16
Magdalena wrote: Instead of returning to Poland in trendy London clothes, I don't know if London ever had the best clothes. When I lived in the London area I used to go to Leeds for fashion items. Only a couple of times did I have trousers made in London. Mind you that was donkey's years ago..

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Mar 27, 08, 15:11 #17

Magdalena wrote:

BTW, I have yet to see really interesting street fashion in London.

Fair point. I just tone it down a tad, so as not to embarrass my Polish mates who probably aren't used to my sartorial statements :)

Magdalena wrote:

Most of the time it's totally boring and slavishly copies any current trend, like the boho style that was all the rage two years ago (thankfully now in decline).

Hahahaha... yes, who could forget the ubiquitous gypsy skirt sweeping along the streets.... I once saw a really fat girl wearing a white one, and she looked like a walking cloud :D

Magdalena wrote:

I daresay most people couldn't care less what you're wearing.

What parts of London did you spend time in? Try Hoxton, Shoreditch... in fact anywhere in E1 - especially shopping at Spitalfields market and all the retro stores nearby, like Rokit and Laden Showrooms. Bethnal Green is becoming a popular trendy spot too (ooooh get me, sounding in with da kidz LOL!!). And then of course there's Camden.

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Mar 27, 08, 15:41 #18

I'm an East London girl, even if only in passing... E10 to E17 is my homeland now ;-)

Camden? Been there once and had enough. It's a sort of leftover hippie-and-punk stew with factory-made "ethnicity" thrown in for good measure. Not my vibe, that ;-)
I guess I'm spoilt because in Poland I had my clothes made for me by my friend and dressmaker, so I chose the best fabrics and the best linings and the most interesting and attractive designs I could lay my hands on, and still paid less than for store-bought stuff. Those were the days (sniff) ;-(

isthatuThreads: 4 Posts: 1,627 Joined: Jun 8, 07 ♂	Mar 27, 08, 17:09 #19
away guy wrote: That new fashion the guys are wearing looks so gay and f u cked up the tight jeans and and stupid scarfs , whats happening here is the world turning gay is the youth going mad i think so .......... its sick !!!! lmao,from the home of skin tight kahki shortie shorts on men with beards.......

gdj67Threads: 20 Posts: 187 Joined: Nov 18, 07 ♂	Mar 27, 08, 17:25 #20
Fashion?.............sorry but I'm still having difficulty getting past the fact that all the girls wear great boots. Anything else is inconsequential. G

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Mar 28, 08, 03:37 #21

gdj67 wrote:

Fashion?.............sorry but I'm still having difficulty getting past the fact that all the girls wear great boots. Anything else is inconsequential.

and there is the difference between men and women. Girls worry about having nice clothes and boys only worry about how to get them off!

Londonchick..you should never tone down your style for anyone..be proud of who you are and how you look and sod what anyone else thinks. That what I love about Britain, the individuality of style and that we dont all feel the need to conform to one look. On that note, there was a British girl murdered recently for being a goth. Her and her boyfriend had their heads kicked in by a couple of teenage boys just for looking different and she died. He says that he wont change the way he looks because then they will have won. The two boys have just got life sentences and they are only 15.

BuddyThreads: 7 Posts: 180 Joined: Nov 18, 07 ♂	Mar 28, 08, 05:40 #22
......LONDON STYLE.......

PolsonThreads: 15 Posts: 2,814 Joined: May 9, 07 ♂	Mar 28, 08, 06:36 #23
Want Polish fashion ? Look at this Reserved, great style ;)

MagdalenaThreads: 5 Posts: 1,365 Joined: Aug 15, 07 ♀	Mar 28, 08, 07:21 #24
streetfashion.info/galerie.html just a few pictures of Polish street fashion.

LondonChickThreads: 43 Posts: 1,261 Joined: Nov 19, 07 ♀	Mar 28, 08, 13:01 #25
sapphire wrote: Londonchick..you should never tone down your style for anyone..be proud of who you are and how you look Sound advice, and I don't disagree with it. Thing is, I'm 32... sometimes I feel a bit Whitney dressed as Britney LOL! At least I know that I can pull off certain flamboyant looks in London.

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Mar 28, 08, 15:45 #26

LondonChick wrote:

At least I know that I can pull off certain flamboyant looks in London.

This is very true, even as a guy I sometimes can't help getting all 'Peacock' when I'm up in London Town!

Was at the Banksy art exhibit in Kensington today actually, it stinks of bad, expensive fashion up there but they still think my tattered jeans and crimson hair is some kind of European fashion statement!

You girls should do 'Polish fashion' makeovers for anyone visiting Poland!

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Mar 28, 08, 16:16 #27

i'll give the brits this: their prints and colour combos are bingbangonthemoneyman.

Every spring and summer here in Poland there is a new "in" colour which sees everyone and there dog clad in it. Apart from that, there's just some shite you can't pull off here cause every flucker has to turn their head and stare-Fcuk off already!

I'm sorry but cheap and kitsch still rule the day here in Poland and anyone that tells you that isn't the majority is simply blowing smoke up your a$$. But most of the worst dressed people I've met here also happen to be the coolest fothermuckers i've ever met.

szkotja2007Threads: 38 Posts: 2,543 Joined: Dec 29, 06 ♂	Mar 28, 08, 16:23 #28
Kemaleon wrote: Was at the Banksy art exhibit in Kensington today actually I remember two years ago wondering why someone would pay £100 for a print, today they are going for £thousands !

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Mar 28, 08, 17:04 #29

szkotja2007 wrote:

I remember two years ago wondering why someone would pay £100 for a print, today they are going for £thousands !

I know, so much for the non-commercial artist!

Foreigner4 wrote:

Every spring and summer here in Poland there is a new "in" colour which sees everyone and there dog clad in it

So what do you think will be this years 'pastel passion'?
Maybe i could make a profit from exporting Primarks finest!

Foreigner4Threads: 21 Posts: 1,747 Joined: Nov 18, 07 ♂	Mar 28, 08, 17:13 #30
Kemaleon wrote: So what do you think will be this years 'pastel passion'? Maybe i could make a profit from exporting Primarks finest! i'm going with green. Red is just too aggressive, blue has been done, pink is not for polish males and yellow is so 2001. It could end up being something wierd like white though. But I ask you, when will polka dots come back in? - polka dots soooo have it goin on.

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