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Who in the world needs jeans that cost $300?

Who in the world needs jeans that cost $300?

Its about time most of the women around here got rid of their "Gap Mom Jeans."

Attention Buffalo women............ High Rise Jeans are OUT! Low rise are in.

Buffalo Bills sweat shirts, tinted octagon glasses and 80's Mullets are also a no go for downtown women.

Get with the times. Slap a nice pair of designer jeans on any woman and things start looking a lot better.

This place will do well and Good luck....very much needed on Buffalo.

For those living under a rock the last 3 years, Fahionable jeans cost $150 $400 nowadays. These are not the LEE mom jeans that girls in Buffalo usually wear from 1987, but rather True Religion, Antik, Paper Denim Rock & Republic, etc that stylish women all over the world (except Buffalo) actually wear. People here are stuck in the 80's with their tapered leg levi's, stonewashed Guess, and Tight as Wranglers. Wake up people. This store should do well, if the williamsville people shop here

Look at Tony Walker, that place cranks...

I hope it does not morph into what Buffalo wants, we have enough poorly dressed people shopping at cheap discount stores and Am Vets. Good luck!

you people are pathetic. why don't you go put an once of your obsession with "fashion" into something good that helps those around you

that said I wish the store owners the best of luck

PS - throw some G-string's or Thongs on the rack too -

The cotton granny panties went out of style back in 1983

You used the non-word "kewlest."

I'm sorry, but that's unacceptable. How can an editor allow that to run? I don't think there's a spell-check in the world that thinks that's a real word.

Before being able to offer suggestions about changes, it might be helpful to understand what's judged a success. When you say a particular channel was not successful, is that gauged by 'views', not getting advertisers for the specific channel, or not enough comments to posts?

I think you could have a channel devoted to very specific locations (street level?) that would be moderated by someone you appointed (who lives on the block, and passes word around that the e-block club exists). Different streets have email lists, North Pearl, Franklin, Allen, Days Park...etc. Click on 'Streets' and it gets you to thirty different streets... I'd be interested to read the general city articles, then check on anything specific on my street. Granted you need a certain critical mass to make it work, but by offering it, you may be pleasantly surprised at the response.

Best of luck to the owner. While you don´t normally think of Buffalo as the mecca of $300 jeans there are people that will buy them and I think they have a great location and design so I really hope it works for them and for buffalo. Obviously these type of stores are not for everyone, no matter what city they are in but the fact that we have some diversity and people willing to open modern stores is Buffalo is just great

God I hope this place makes it because Buffalo really needs some cpr when it comes to it's fashion sense. .....christ, I still see Buffalonians at the airport waiting to board planes sporting their Bob's Store t-shirts circa 1994 and those awful Nynex shirts that came free with the phonebook. Can't wait to check out all them dungerees

Hey Assaroni, True Religion? Rock & Republic? These are brands for the masses - now available at most department stores. The first line in this post says something about wearing clothes not available at every mall. If you wear True Religion, Rock & Republic, Paper Denim, etc., you are, in fact, several years behind. Just because you are choosing to wear a brand that you see a lot doesn't make you fashionable.

While I am a premium denim wearer, I will also be the first to say that it's just not about the brands you have on, and more about the look you put together. Who cares about these awful back pocket embellishments telling everybody what kind of jeans you have on? I'm sure there are plenty of guys and girls who put together better looks than you with Amvets/thrift store finds if that's the mentality you have.

I know a bunch of girls that drive to the walker center for designer jeans that cost that much. I wish this place had some guys stuff too

We could also use a few new MEN'S Stores with NEW Styles. So sad and sometimes gross to see all the guys in Buffalo wearing dirty looking T-Shirts (often Tank Tops) Bills attire, mullets and they actually believe that the same look greats on everyone. Um,,,, no..... Try some new tight jeans (They are IN right now) the big baggy look and plain blue jeans are OVER people. Try some cool T-Shirts with designs other than logos (AB Fitch, BILLS, etc. is so over worn, it's TIRED), I could go on, but please pick up a brand new magazine to see what is in right now instead of living in the past (this goes for the women too). ....Doesn't Buffalo have the most singles????? Hmmmm, I wonder why??? Because most of you don't care how you look, so, why would anyone care to step to you???

There is not many local places to get good designer jeans. The few there are have very limited selection. I think its great someone else is stepping up and im sure they will do great. as Assaroni said look at tony walker.. a store like that would take off huge in the city!

Don't get me started on the airport - how sad that you can always find the gate going to Buffalo by the mullets, high top sneakers, Buffalo Bills jackets, fat women, magnum pi mustaches, tapered levis, Sabres jerseys, mom jeans, and old people

That's exactly what I'm talking about gaustad. Most people in Buffalo look so pitiful and sad. Yet, those are the ones who make fun of the latest fads in fashion and those who wear them. When I was in B-lo last month, I totally felt like an outcast with the dirty stares by the same people you just described. But then again with no exposure to the latest trends, how do we exept the local's to really "Get It"? I mean, look at downtown, You have ONE Woman's store and the rest (JP's, Tent City) that cator to the fat people since all they carry are Size Large and XX Large and MC Hammer Pants in the back of JP's or so they did a few years back on my last visit. So my point being, with very few options (that really suck) and no big retailers in the city, how can we really expect people in the city to look up-to-date and hip?

GDC,

NO MONEY - NO STYLE

Its not the lack of shopping, its the inability to afford nice sh!t. Buffalo is the second poorest and laziest city in the country second to Detroit. These people are not gonna spend money to clean themselves up. They can barely bathe themselves, but they do have plenty of money for Pizza and chicken wings and steak hoagies.

ahahahahhaahah gaustad - they need to do a post just about that - "Buffalo's Fashion Problemssss" it would be an eye opener for many people that I have no concept of style or what they look like wearing all that crap. Buffalo is this hodge podge of varying degrees of bad style or no style. I have dressed up on my occasions taking the time and effort , only to have my friends yelling in the background "this is buffalo"!! I hate hearing that but its true!! Its like very evident everywhere you go!! Its like no one cares so why should I or I do not want to stand out too much by wearing something too trendy... It would be soo refreshing to see some extra effort on style around buffalo, it may inspire a trend influencing more fashion related stores to open downtown, no one is going to spend 300 dollars on jeans when people everywhere are wearing old torn up jeans from 15 years ago. If I were to open a business in buffalo a clothing store would be on the bottom of my list for the above reasons...

Newell, someone desperately needs to write an article about the lack of style in Buffalo and what do about it.

The lack of style gives us all a bad name.

It is a real problem that needs to be addressed - most people from out of town identify us as losers with no fashion sense. Perhaps we can at least help some people around here match their clothes and remove their facial hair. Perhaps hand out some crest white strips too!

Start simple and work our way up!

That was very well put, GDF81. I too, have friends there who always yell at me "Why you dressed up all the time"....and to me, when they yell like that, I thought it was 'casual'. People need to get out of the status quo "SLOB" look that was semi popular in the early 90's. It's 2008 people and 'FRESH' 'TIGHT' looks are "IN" right now, but when I was visiting, all I seen was kids in Grunge attire (that looked died out in the late 90's or so I thought), hip hop kids still wearing the extra baggy jeans and skirt style T-shirts (FITTED IS IN NOW), the semi 80's hip hop look (big gold chains, kango hats, tight jeans, big sneakers and fades) is what HOT in NYC and other large cities right now. I could just picture a bunch of stylish kids from Brooklyn walking the streets of Downtown Buffalo being harrased and laughed at, when in fact, if you brought those people from Buffalo to Brooklyn..they would be laughed at for looking so nasty and out of touch with the times.

buffalo has no style? this is a joke right? The people of nyc or las vegas who can afford $300 jeans and $2000 suits buy them and wear them. 90% of either of those cities cant afford that and dress like everone else. Its idiotic to think that people only in buffalo dress like they dont make $600,000 a year. Newsflash...the same issues that are part of our city exist in other cities. Buffalo is the same as almost any other small city, get over it

come on guys, the buffalo travler at airport gates is a joke the world over.

Tough, good call on GDC- practice what you preach. And is anyone really going to take any fashion advice from Gaustad? HA

I concur with the above post, we may certainly not be the most fashion fwd city, but by no means is this city just a bunch of zoobaz sporting, mullet rocking, high top town. Its not all that often I actually get to view a specimen like described in some of these posts. I think the majority of our population is more just plain jane, frumpy dressing type. So some of you really need to get over yourselves though, your talking like everyone should be wearing the same clothes and dressing the exact same, which in turn would just make something 'trendy' and then not cool, unless thats what you thin is cool, because thats what everyone is sporting. I really cant figure out if some of you think that being stylish is just following all the trends, wearing what everyone else is wearing that season, or creating your own unique style. Is being stylish wearing the same thing/look as the next trendy guy, or sporting your own unique style. Me, I laugh at all the lemmings walking down the street looking like a bunch of twins that were dress the same by their mother, and give props to the people who actually have their own style and arent just following the next trend. (insert tight girl jeans here) If you know style, you were wearing these jeans when the skaters started rocking them again about 5 years ago, not now when half the youth of today are.

what neighborhood are you people from, i havent seen a mullet in while. Or maybe i just havent noticed because i dont waste my time judging other people. Wear whatever you like, if youre nice then youre cool with me.

As for this shop, the only other alternative (besides a couple new stores at the galleria that jumped on the bandwagon) was Tony Walker. Having this option on Elmwood speaks volumes of the districts ability to sustain such high price points and could prove to be an eye opener for other chic retailers.

You are just desensitized to it - next time you are traveling at the airport - look at how different the gate is going to Buffalo

bills sweatshirts are always fashionable. you just don't get it.

Love it. Fashion outrage. At least it takes our minds off the recession. Oh, wait - is there a recession? $400 jeans flying off the rack?

I get a warm tingly feeling knowing that I live in a city where one retail sale can nearly pay the month's rent and a second will cover the utilities, even in winter...

Viva le entrepreneur!!!

people in Buffalo are way behind the curve on most things...........there is a reason why bands like the Allman Brothers make it a point to play here every year.....becasue thousands of people show up.....as opposed to more current, relavent bands who just pass right by to play Toronto.........

Well, Toughinthestreets, Maby I'm so bitter towards the sloppy looking people, because it's that group that is the most racist, ignorant, and full of hate towards anyone who doesn't look and act like them. Because of my experience's, it seems it's only in Buffalo that I can't stand those types of people, anywhere else, I dont' even think about it. Maby I'm just tramatised.

Al-alo, dont you have to go stand in line for the REO Speedwagon concert? Dont forget your 97rock shirt you still have from '81

Gioia, I think I love you - wanna meet up?

BOOTS AND BRACES

Sorry Gaustad Gioia's taken.

she have a sister?

I respect those posters seeing the good in the small minority in buffalo that dresses well but some of these posts really miss the point... the point is that buffalo has a large population of people with BAD (almost trashy) style... unfortunately thats what stands out in a group.. the bad and the negative especially when its overwhelming. thats what people with any style identify with when they think of buffalo - outdated/sloppy/depressed/hip hop... There is just not enough of those stylish people to make any impression for me.. nothing to inspire me to go and buy what they have on.. (that would be a nice competitive feeling to want to spend some money on clothing because you want to stay trendy) This place is the pitts for style and anyone that can not see that needs to look around.. suggestion take a walk down main st during lunch time.. you would think you were in the 80's again? They dont even sell stretch pants and many of those prints anymore.. what a mess!! Target is cheap and stylish if your on a budget.

what about this place adding some lines for the dudes ,tony walker is ok, but they only get a small amount of styles every seasons, and the mall forget about it... need some more places like this for men .....

80% of buffalo style = pizza + wings + football + sweat pants and shirts

god I miss Miami

One star martin--I was in the Alanta airport this year and had the pleasure of seeing the worst dressed people I've seen in years. The difference is that I didn't care--because people look and dress the same everywhere. The joke of the Buffalo traveler is a cartoon invented by a few people who like to pat their jaundiced views of Buffalo on the back. Open your eyes.

All this talk of fashion or lack thereof is a joke, I hope. We live in a city with a terrific philharmonic, world class chamber music, live theater, a rich literary culture, interesting and engaged people who literally give their lives to make Buffalo even better......and yet there are people here worried about what jeans people wear??? Hypersensitivity to what people wear is a sure sign of a provincial mind. Making fun of what people wear in a public forum? Well, why not just return to junior high? God help us.

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stupid, stupid, stupid . . .

andalu13, you are worse than BILL ZIMMERMAN WITH THE EDITS!