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jb

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:26:23 +1300

I'd look to see what Gareth Morgan's doing and get in his slipstream

Craig Ranapia

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:22:19 +1300

Because, of course, I heart Tories.

Yay...

Damian Christie

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:31:17 +1300

God knows – Julie Christie doesn't exactly have "a position" at TVNZ, she runs a production company. But I'm not going to fret about the opinion of someone called "Socialist Craig". Because, of course, I heart Tories.

Sacha

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:43:49 +1300

Probably, but I couldn't resist. :)

Kumara Republic

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:18:38 +1300

Damian, I believe you're being called a friend o the tories (comment#1).

Surely the commenter isn't referring to Julie Christie of Touchdown TV?

Sacha

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:40:05 +1300

Damian, I believe you're being called a friend o the tories (comment#1).

Sofie Bribiesca

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:16:49 +1300

I'll take you clothes shopping with me one day, Sofie.

Thanks but no thanks girl. I worked with fashion in 3 malls in 2 countries over 14 years and I swore I would avoid the likes of clothes shopping for the rest of my life.:)

Clothes, from my perspective, rate fairly…

Joanna

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:14:03 +1300

Of course, wearing it with matching trousers and a tie makes one look as if one were Roger Stirling heading off for a three-Martini lunch: but I'd much rather that than look like I was heading off to a team meeting at Wernham Hogg,

Tom, we addressed this issue in…

Jackie Clark

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:07:36 +1300

I would add, of course, that there are far bigger problems that we all have to overcome everyday. Clothes, from my perspective, rate fairly low on the things that make you fret scale.

Jackie Clark

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:02:06 +1300

I'll take you clothes shopping with me one day, Sofie. A lot of women over size 18 get very depressed about the whole thing. If you are under a certain size, you get to go into any shop at all, and know that there will be things that will fit…

Sofie Bribiesca

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 20:22:44 +1300

I like my body, and I would quite like it if designers liked it too.

I guess I just thought of the likes of TCD as designers and they did like your body which is why they make what they do. I do not see them as being any different…

Jackie Clark

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:31:26 +1300

Hi Sofie – Carpenters' Daughter and Precious Vessels are faves from time to time, and I have patronised Extra Elegance (that one on Mt Albert Rd) – and there are alternatives out there. I like my body, and I would quite like it if designers liked it too. I don't…

Sofie Bribiesca

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:40:07 +1300

I know you're just making a recommendation, but isn't the point that fashion labels should really be catering for the general bell-curve (I guess in more than one sense) of the human population?

Yep and we do have some in NZ. Moa has 5 designers and they do consider the…

Ethan Tucker

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:34:36 +1300

Bring back the dandy, I say, and open up the range of options for menswear. No matter whose watch it is.

Then Black magazine (whatever that is) has the look for you.

Damian Christie

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:14:21 +1300

@Peter – you're on. And yes, it was really hard, trying to find a place to get pissed on a Tuesday and getting the balance right between places that were completely dead, and places that were teeming with idiots in green hats.

Damian Christie

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:12:32 +1300

@Sofie – I know you're just making a recommendation, but isn't the point that fashion labels should really be catering for the general bell-curve (I guess in more than one sense) of the human population? I'm 5'9", which is average height, but I wouldn't expect to have to go to…

Sofie Bribiesca

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:58:06 +1300

@ Jackie (and anyone else interested)
Haven't been myself, but have seen the clothing on, there is The Carpenter's Daughter (TCD) shop at the end of Mt Eden Rd,turn left, down a bit (opp Stacks Furniture) on Mt Albert Rd. They cater for the fuller figure.I suspect you may like…

Damian Christie

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:39:19 +1300

Yeah Danielle's right. Oddly, the same thing's started happening in menswear of late too. As the ultra skinny jeans came back in for guys a few years back, I started noticing with certain labels, who catered for that sort of look, I was needing an XL, where normally I'd be…

Peter Darlington

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:34:27 +1300

@Damian When I first saw this post I was thinking it might be about, you know, that St Patrick's Day is a bit wack really.

It'd be quite nice to drop it in favour of a new faux celebration for an unrelated country. Personally I'd like Modova if possible as…

Danielle

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:57:52 +1300

So does every other designer

I don't actually think that's true. Most middle- to high-end designers don't go above a snug 14 (which is the average dress size for a New Zealand woman). If the garment is made of a stretchy fabric and you're on the borderline you might be…

Tom Beard

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:05:56 +1300

@Damian – of course, I would never actually buy a sequinned bow tie. It's physically impossible to tie a bow tie without damaging the sequins, and there's no way I'll wear anything pre-tied. I'll stick to plain black for evening and blue foulard for going to the cricket.

And as…

Craig Ranapia

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:58:50 +1300

I'll give propers to Stretton for having a Range for the Squat.

So does every other designer, because bullemics with platinum cards don't actually buy enough clothes to keep over-leveraged fashion labels afloat. But when was the last time Stretton sent a "squat" model down the runway or hired one…

Danielle

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:40:25 +1300

Annah S

I'll give propers to Stretton for having a Range for the Squat.

(Although most of her clothes – in any size – are a little frou-frou for my taste. Still, some of the more low-key stuff rewards a search through the racks.)

Damian Christie

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:01:08 +1300

@Tom – the bow ties were a particular affront to my sensibilities, just like when nom D tried to bring back the satin-backed waistcoat a few years ago. Not on my watch, buddy. Sure I know some of the foppish dandies are running around Manhattan wearing floral bow ties and…

Paul Campbell

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:31:21 +1300

I'm not sure they come in XXL ....

Bruce Thorpe

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:25:00 +1300

Thanks for the reminder. I am buying one today.

Julie Fairey

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 10:04:48 +1300

The ex-expat has pointed out a particular icky example of bad baby clothing and others are coming out of the woodwork in the discussion thread. I had forgotten about the Future Porn Star one, but that seems to me to be unsurpassable in the Euuuwwwwww stakes.

On the size of…

Craig Ranapia

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:31:45 +1300

but I've got to love any place that sells sequinned bow ties.

Honey, anyone wears one those in my field of vision and I'll start muttering "Killer Klowns From Outer Space"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO8AOtDPrKo

Tom Beard

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:07:50 +1300

their fashion aesthetic, which personally I've always found to fluctuate between tasteless and gimmicky and Rupert the Bear.

Sure, they're over the top a lot of the time, but there are precious few other designers creating menswear with a touch of whimsy, glamour and colour. I may be too old,…

Craig Ranapia

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:29:15 +1300

Well, I suppose I speak of NZ designers only, really, Craig. And excepting Karen Walker and a couple of the other youngie ones....

Sure, I really do doubt Trelise Cooper could squeeze into any of her runway outfits but I'm reliably informed that line of questioning is a good way…

Jackie Clark

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:10:40 +1300

Well, I suppose I speak of NZ designers only, really, Craig. And excepting Karen Walker and a couple of the other youngie ones....

Craig Ranapia

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:26:08 +1300

Thank you for going there, Jackie, because if I'd opened my trap the PAS Women's XV would now be using my intestines for a draught excluder.

But the only place Karen Walker's a "dumpy wee thing" is in an anorexic ICU, and if Karl Lagerfeld has actually digested anything since…

giovanni tiso

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:05:04 +1300

How come all the designers who make clothes that only fit stick insects, and who seem to be able to charge exorbitant prices, and who employ shop assistants who look very frightened and/or disgusted if a large and unfashionable looking woman walks through their doors, how come they are all…

Islander

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:41:56 +1300

Recruit the vulnerable, e Jackie- name of the game innit?

Jackie Clark

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:46:18 +1300

Denise L'Estrange-Corbet is now the arbiter of good taste — really?

Which brings me to a question which has nothing at all to do with Damian's post. How come all the designers who make clothes that only fit stick insects, and who seem to be able to charge exorbitant prices,…

Rich of Observationz

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:54:11 +1300

I had advice from a professional fund manager on how to do the job:
1. Buy shares
2. If they go up, sell them
3. If they go down, classify them as a long term investment and hand to a junior to manage

also, I can recommend BAE Systems as…

Don Christie

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:24:14 +1300

Advice on how to invest in stock...use someone else's money.

I was going to link to *that* Cramer video on Youtube, then this message came up:

This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by TheStreet.com.
So here is his latest advice...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SptB3STL5rs

Craig Ranapia

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:16:54 +1300

Oh, crap... hit post instead of preview (to check I'd not screwed up the link). Of course, you can hardly blame Denise for grasping an opportunity for free press with both hands. But you might think the clueless little hackette who rang her up in the first place would have…

Craig Ranapia

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:09:00 +1300

Denise L'Estrange-Corbet is now the arbiter of good taste — really?

Zippy Gonzales

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:02:16 +1300

Ah, 1987. $500 is a lot for a schoolboy to lose on the sharemarket. Lesson learned. Then again, my best mate lost ten times that much back then. He's in finance now.

Damian Christie

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:45:28 +1300

Oh, and yes I have some understanding of PE ratios and so forth, but part of this is a learning exercise – and what better way to learn one's mistakes than by blowing cash in the process...

Is the Stinky Pig code for drinking? I gave up for a month,…

Damian Christie

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:43:14 +1300

Yeah, point 4, definitely just dabbling. It's money I can afford to lose, which is not to say it's nothing, but I'd suffer no more than hurt pride if it went down the tubes. It's not my retirement plan, that's for sure. Actually, thinking of that, I don't have a…

Paul Brislen

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:23:16 +1300

Glad to see it's not just me who was appalled by that astonishing press conference. I thought journalists were in attendance, not just groupies. Apparently not. John Campbell, your stock fell sharply on that one. How do you feel, indeed.

So what shares did you buy? Do you know your…

andrew llewellyn

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:22:57 +1300

Oh yeah:

4. I remember in November 1987, the partners of the sharebroking firm I worked at urged us all to buy while the market was so low, it could only go up right? – those with money did, some without money did too. I did not, because I had…

andrew llewellyn

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:18:43 +1300

A few points – in order of importance

1. That rupert the bear link is broken
2. Please help the cause & join the Facebook group lobbying for Bain to be on next year's dancing with the stars (verdict permitting).
3. I can't remember the third point.

Public Address

Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:18:43 +1300

Discussion from blog post.