Buffalorising has been redesigned.

Wondering if Lauren is available to bring coffee, mimosas and berries to us in bed right now? We would like her to wear the yellow dress with the black lace. She is one Buffalo fox! Nice slide show boyz.

Wow, great slideshow! I wish more girls would look as good as this girl in b lo.

I've always wondered why people around here never dress up for a night out. I guess it's a catch 22... no one dresses up because, when someone does, they have to deal with people commenting on it all night as though they were a zoo exhibit. So people continue to go out in jeans every night to avoid being asked if they're just back from a wedding.

I don't get the mentality here at all. No one ever dresses up or creates their own unique style. Seems most people try to fit in and look dull in jeans and t-shirts and your right, if someone did dress up, all of sudden everyone in the room stops and looks like this person is out of place (or is Buffalo just out of touch?).
As a big city dweller myself who has lived in NYC and LA, I still dress up and hate it sometimes to go anywhere around here and have EVERY FRICKEN PERSON stop and stare at me and ask" where are you from?", "your not from around here are you?"> It just proves that nonone here knows how to have style and class and have not been exposed to it, or even been outside of Buffalo to a big city and actually seen how people dress and act around eachother. In the real world folks (or any where outside of Buffalo) , people DO dress up, create THIER OWN STYLE and be themselfs, and hardly anyone will treat them like some sort of freak who is out of place.
I applaud these types of post and photos, maby we can finally teach the residences here HOW TO DRESS.

So Buffalonians should create their "own style" by dressing like people from other cities?

Buffalonians should really step into 2007 and not 1997 when it comes to style.- Sweat pants, flannel, fanny packs, mullets, spandex, and more are OUT-THROW THEM AWAY PEOPLE.
Oh, and next time your going to a show at Shea's. DRESS UP. Please don't wear jeans and a t-shirt to a production at a grand theatre like Shea's. Have you no class?
This is what is wrong with the fashion scene in Buffalo, most of you do not have any fashion scense. You still think it's ok to walk around in public wearing sweat pants, out dated sports jackets, hair un-done, grunge look and go to a restaurant, club, shopping or any other public place. This is part of our image problem, part of the reason we have no retail in the downtown core. When someone new comes here and see's NOONE dressed up to date, fashionable and everyone looks so BLAH...why would H&M or other big retailers want to locate and invest in an area where noone can comprehend or understand what they have to offer, what decade we live in, what actually is in style or mock anything that is in style that people in other cities wear.
I have so many outfits in my closet right now from Manhattan, wore once in Buffalo and will not wear again...The reason? People here have to mock, stare, laugh and make comments like "what the f(*&& are you wearing?" =====If you people stepped out of Buffalo or even put on a television set and see what people WEAR outside of boring ass Buffalo, you wouldn't be so narrow small minded and make such silly remarks to new fads just because nonone else here wants to step out of the time warp and into the new millenium.

Instead of being so concerned with how other people are dressing. You should try to be less concerned about what people say, think, or stare at whatever it is your wearing. If "fashion is your passion" you shouldn't care what others think. Worry about yourself, or maybe any number of the worlds, or Buffalo's real problems.

Companies like H&M (or whoever) look at hard economic and demographic facts when choosing where to locate a store. They don't breeze into town to see what folks are wearing. Corporations don't work like that.

Wear whatever you want, but lay off those who have a different fashion sense. Fashion shouldn't be fascist.

Have anyone actually steped foot in some of the stores downtown? The Main Place has some ghetto a** store for pimps and old church ladies, some store on Main St. near Lafayette Square sells only lady items that look like a step back to the 1980's Cosby Show/Different World Era, and the rest of the shops only cator to ghetto kids with out dated and cheap clothling lines. It's no wonder people who are downtown look a mess. They don't have exposure to anything nice.

Great thread and photos (Lauren IS a stone cold fox), but this has to be the dumbest series of posts to ever grace BRO.

Personally, I don't mind dressing up to go out. If I'm off to Left Bank, or Tempo, or a show at Shea's, or the BPO, odds are I'll be in a blazer, shirt, and nice pants, if not a suit. If others aren't, so be it. I'd obviously like to see people pay those venues the respect they deserve, but ultimately it's their choice, and it doesn't mean they "have no class." Time to get off your high horse.

I, too, have spent YEARS in big, "high fashion" cities and think it safe to say those areas have more people who "dress down" than "dress up" on a regular basis by a SIGNIFICANT margin, just like Buffalo. It all depends on where you go in those cities (remember, dressing down is an AMERICAN trend, not a Buffalo one - take a look at most traditionally formal work places that have all gone business casual in recent years). I wouldn't expect to see people dressed up at some pub or dive bar, whether that be in Buffalo, NYC, Miami, LA, wherever; just as I WOULD expect people to be dressed better at shows, martini lounges, and other more "up-scale" establishments in those same cities (those other cities just happen to have more than Buffalo). If you're having a hard time finding people dressed up with their own unique style, perhaps try changing where you hang out.

Oh, and big improvement over the last photo shoot showcasing upscale dresses just prior to Curtain Up... remember, the one with the nipple slip? :-)

Did'nt the Main Place Mall have a funky store that sold Betsey Johnson dresses back when it first openend? If only I had saved that dress, I wonder how much it would be worth today being over 30 years old.

"nyc gal" needs to do away with her hoity toity attitude its not that serious. Why does everyone in nyc make such of big deal of themselves ?

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Some people in this town are so sad..and it shows in how they dress...dress like a bum,, you must feel like a bum..dress behind the times,,you must live in a time warp or wish you were in a different era (maby you have too many regrets?)...the bum look goes along with the atitude here....it's very depressing. I applaud anyone for trying to bring the light to the locals here on HIGH FASHION....Good luck. Most here (look at the postings above) have no clue on fashion, trends, or what is "in" or "out". I wish I could afford to leave and go off somewhere like NYC or Paris where people would frown upon the people of Buffalo for their poor taste in wear.

Everyone who posted here about how they think buffalo isn't high fashion should go downtown to allentown and elmwood, and shop there for a change. I have also shopped in high fashion cities, and Buffalonians dress the same as people everywhere else. I have seen people wear jeans out to theatres everywhere, not just Buffalo. I dress in dressy clothes when I go out, but I don't seem to have any problem fitting in. Maybe those who think Buffalo isn't high fashion need to either leave or find a different place to hang out. Also, I see many creative people out and about in Allentown, Elmwood, Delaware, etc. and they seem to have no trouble finding places to shop and people to hang out with. Fashion isn't always what is on the runways or in Vogue, fashion is what a person looks good in and feels comfy in, and you have a problem with that, just remember the old saying, "if you don't have anything nice to say, then shut your mouth..."

I for one am so happy that I came across these thoughts on "Buffalo Fashion". I am always complaining about not so much the way people dress, but the effort they put in to it. I see alot of people around here that look like they just rolled out of bed with wrinkled clothes. It's a fact that everyone can't afford the same clothing that are on the runways or that the stars are wearing but people, at least make an effort to make it look like you care. In the near future I plan on opening my own boutique, and since reading these thoughts I may opt for the downtown Buffalo area.

Please, one of Buffalo's worst traits is the way ya'll dress dress. If people would spend more money on Elmwood and less at TJmax, The bars would be very sexy-hip and cool and Elmwood shops would not be droppin like fly's.