I love Fashion but hate Shopping

[saann]

Anyone come to this conclusion lately? I've come to realise how much I hate shopping. I do it for a living part time but I almost never find myself shopping on my own. I get bored going into shops and I find it very exhausting and repetetive. Whenever I buy something it usually happens very quickly, without me searching much.

I love fashion but I find that I couldn't care less about what's in store nor about consuming it.

 

[Psylocke]

It's the same with me but I think in my case it has mainly to do with me being obsessed with online window shopping. I already know all the collections that interest me from the internet and I only find myself going into stores to see what something I saw on the internet looks like in real. I don't have the patience to actually go shopping anymore because everything bores me too much. Having access to fashion from all around the world through online shopping I don't find myself being interested in going into stores here that I know only carries stuff everyone else around here is already wearing.

 

[saann]

I don't even like online shopping

I do however also like to go into stores to see what some runway pieces look like in real life but never with the intention of buying them.

Maybe it's having internet access to fashion from all over the world that has caused some of this boreness, because once it hits the stores I find myself over it already.

 

[purplethistle]

^ Well I live in the southern hemisphere so seeing collections that had been on the runway from 18 months earlier is more a trip down memory lance which I usually don't mind

But in general I don't like shopping. It's more about the mind set that I have when I go, usually its because I need something and typically that means I won't find it which means I often feel like my time has been wasted. I also don't settle for stuff that I'm sitting on the fence about since returning/exchanging is a hassle and why waste money.

It also depends on the way the shop has been laid out. In my ideal store there'd be a rack with one of everything else in the shop. If you like something you go find the right sized one and try it on or just make the sales assistant find it. Having been a sales assistant myself this would mean that not every single customer that comes in the door is going to create a mess of the racks so it'd be a win win. Also if I spend hours of shopping actually get physically ill from walking in tiny circles everywhere.

I don't like shopping with other people because when I try stuff on I feel like I'm never trying the clothes on fast enough or vice versa. But shopping alone doesn't make things better for me either. I find that the sales assistants seem to pester singles shoppers more.

 

[Lapin de Lune]

I actually love shopping, in theory!
I like to acquire something 'new', that sensation, you know...but the actuality of shopping pretty much stresses me out. I don't like the atmosphere in many stores, the hovering assistants, the calamity of sizing, the hideous lighting and the more than occasionally crap music.
Internet shopping is less of a pain, but the repetition of designs in so many stores bores me to death. I agree with some of the above posts also: my local stores tend not to stock anything remotely exciting. If I haven't purchased anything in a while, I might start out with a certain level of optimism, but it doesn't really last.

I was expecting, along with the op, to be in the minority here, too!
It seems that an interest in fashion isn't exactly synonymous with a love of shopping ~ I have the same issues with music and film, also, such a huge passion, consistently let down in the consumer department ..

 

[ailin]

I love having new things that I like...so I love shopping, but I have given up on physically going to the store for a while now but while online is better Ill agree that even at that point its hard to find things I love for the above reasons listed (everything is the same) everything in my price range that is : /. I really think in the future there will be fewer physical stores.

 

[softgrey]

i don't seem to have this problem at all...
...

i love to shop...
online, in stores, from lookbooks,...
while i'm on vacation...
in grocery stores, in stationery stores, in shoe stores...
it really doesn't matter...

i love shopping!...


it's like the entire globe is one giant shopping opportunity...
and even if i don't buy anything...
i still like seeing what is being offered...

 

[Scott]

i wouldn't necessarily say i hated shopping but i do sometimes get rather flustered by the whole experience. particularly with big overwhelming shops and department stores.

i like smaller spaces that aren't always crowded and have an intimacy that sort of allows me to explore. and i do love the online experience myself.

 

[Neyla]

I enjoy wandering online through sites, but I have to be in the mood to wander. In actuality, when I'm alone and have shops that aren't super crowded and are smaller in scale, I enjoy to meander about and search. But that's only if I have no idea what I'm looking for- as in, I don't need anything specific.
If I need something specific, I usually can't find it for the few three hours and it turns from determination to plain irritation. Happened to me a couple of weeks ago, and I wanted to shoot something!

 

[Mocha_Love]

I love fashion and I love the idea of going shopping. But I hate physically going out to shop. I hate having to line up in queues when I need another size for example, and then being told that it's sold out in my size. But what I detest the most is coming home empty handed...

 

[Lina5]

I love shopping, but I hate that so many manufacturers put in stores so many really horribly made things ... I really don't even understand who buys it all, a lot of it probably just goes to waste. it is just so unecological and unappealing.

 

[Empress Merel]

Ugh, story of my life.

Not to start with the overpacked clothing racks, crying babies, crap mirrors who make your body look horrible and the quality of a lot of clothes here. I don't live in a big city so the only really good stores are the independent stores which are more expensive. The rest is all H&M and the same lame quality of clothes.

Oh, and I hate it when clothes which size is specified as S or M is in reality a whole lot smaller. Makes you feel like a giant whale, the biggest moodkiller when shopping. Get real Italians and Frenchies, most of us ain't runway models.

I love it when I succeed though.

 

[KhaoticKharma]

I definitely don't this is an epidemic; a day of shopping tends to leave me exhausted, angry, hungry, and often time with very few purchase. It probably has something to do with the fact that I'm very stingy; I only buy what I really will wear (often) or something that will go with something I already have. Thankfully, being a fashion addict (and hoping to possibly work in the industry), constantly exposing myself to fashion allows me to see a multitude of products and from there, pick out which one I want- so that I can run into stores, see if they have it and leave if they don't or buy and get out fast if they do.

 

[silk skin paws]

I like shopping even when it becomes a bit redundant and I walk out of a store without purchasing a thing. I just enjoy the overall experience while shopping. I don't think I'll ever get tired of that. In some ways shopping is relaxing. I don't really have to worry about anything else.

 

[mikeijames]

i'm with softgrey on this one. i almost live for shopping. and it's not just fashion. i almost stalk furniture and artwork i crave. there's something about the thrill of the hunt. the only part of the shopping experience that bores me remains some of the pretensions put on by some of the stores i love to graze in.

 

[Drusilla_]

Shopping for me is never anything but a stressful experience- stores have substandard product, problems with sizing, horrible mirrors (and it doesn't help that I live in a place where the kind of clothes I like to wear, and which suit me, are never ever available- there are no secondhand or vintage stores anywhere in this country). I might feel differently if I lived in a place with more options, but I'd rather shop online.

It's like fashion, as we know it out of magazines, is this lovely fantasy- but actually having to shop and find things for yourself just brings it all crumbling down.

 

[Sophie02]

I love fashion, and I like window shopping. But going into stores makes me reeeeeally tired cos I get so overwhelmed with all the beautiful materials and colours. It's such a big experience.

 

[AD011620]

I like shopping but most of the time I hate it because of appalling service. Especially bad are the shops that sell designers clothes, mainly the ones that sell different brands. They are so up their ar*ss, sick with their self-importance. Sometimes I get a feeling that they think they are as important as designers who make those clothes. When I spent a couple of hundred pounds or more I do feel that I deserve good service. You should enjoy the experience and good service should allow you to see things, buy them and not worry about the price. I think they should drop their attitudes, get on with servicing customers and not just guarding them. I made it clear to myself that I will never buy anything even if I am dying to have it if the service is sh*t. Moreover, I started telling them that they should try a bit more but after all, then I think to myself, if I have to do all of this and get annoyed why bother at all. So far the best service I had was Armani in London, the worse Paul Smith, near Covent Garden (I am not even going to say how much I spent there and they could not even be bothered to check sizes). I must say this does not apply to London only. Marc Jacobs shop in NYC was pretty awful. anyway...

 

[JulieTao]

Well, I can't say I have read all of the comments,
but this is my personal take on shopping. I think it is exhausting, and I absolutely do not have the patience for it. I hate the searching part, although sometimes along that journey, I discover something I really like. (though note that it is never the actual item I am searching for, like a sidetrack.)
If I could, I'd get someone to do the whole searching part for me and then call me over when they find exactly the piece I want.
Then I buy it, and go home. I don't like online shopping either,
all this takes too much time.
I'm rather a lazy person when it comes to this.
When I do not know what exactly I am looking for, then browsing and exploring is a little more interesting, because therefore I am more open to everything.
When I have my sights set on something and I can't find it, I get really frustrated.
And KhaoticKharma, it is the same with me. I'm super picky and so I almost always end up buying nothing. For me, it needs to be a fantastic deal, something that I feel will last long, and something I really really like.

 

[Empress Merel]

Shopping for me is never anything but a stressful experience- stores have substandard product, problems with sizing, horrible mirrors (and it doesn't help that I live in a place where the kind of clothes I like to wear, and which suit me, are never ever available- there are no secondhand or vintage stores anywhere in this country). I might feel differently if I lived in a place with more options, but I'd rather shop online.

It's like fashion, as we know it out of magazines, is this lovely fantasy- but actually having to shop and find things for yourself just brings it all crumbling down.

Do we live in the same country??

net-a-porter.com is a life-saver. If not only for the lay-out and tools. (up-close view and video)