{"id":198,"date":"2008-10-29T18:14:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T18:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/29\/not-high-end-not-high-street\/"},"modified":"2008-10-29T18:15:42","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T18:15:42","slug":"not-high-end-not-high-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/10\/29\/not-high-end-not-high-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Not high-end, not high-street"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Middle range brands are ruling the U.K. high street at the moment.\u00a0Reiss<\/a>,\u00a0Jaeger<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Whistles<\/a>\u00a0are all receiving lots of publicity in the fashion press and rightly so. Their lines are elegant, fashion forward and refined. The problem for me starts with the prices. Yes, in designer terms, they are affordable but in terms of high street, mass produced clothing, they are not. \u00a3185 for a party dress at\u00a0Reiss<\/a>, \u00a3600 for a\u00a0Jaeger<\/a>\u00a0coat…all a little too much for me. I did buy a fabulous dress from\u00a0Reiss<\/a>\u00a0in the summer, paying \u00a3165 but so did a lot of other people! I think\u00a0Topshop<\/a>\u00a0has marred my view of what affordable fashion is. Their stock is updated several times a week, it is still fashion forward, maybe not sooo refined, maybe worn by hundreds of other people…but at\u00a0Topshop’s<\/a>\u00a0prices, most definitely affordable and disposable. That brings me to the\u00a0Whistles<\/a>\u00a0dress above, aptly named\u00a0“Watergarden.”<\/a>\u00a0A very\u00a0Balenciaga<\/a>\u00a0inspired design yet at the very un-Balenciaga<\/a>\u00a0price of \u00a3130. For me that’s still a little too much for an on-trend look, although I sense florals will transend the seasons, as they always have. To see it “in action” on\u00a0Vogue.com’s Street Chic<\/a>, does make it seem more appealing. The only question I have to ask myself is, should I buy it and if I do, am I buying into the escalating prices of these middle of the range “brands?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Middle range brands are ruling the U.K. high street at the moment.\u00a0Reiss,\u00a0Jaeger\u00a0and\u00a0Whistles\u00a0are all receiving lots of publicity in the fashion press and rightly so. Their lines are elegant, fashion forward and refined. The problem for me starts with the prices. Yes, in designer terms, they are affordable but in terms of high street, mass produced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fashion","category-randomness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randomfashioncoolness.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}