Shop with a Girl
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Shop with a Girl
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Re: Shop with a Girl
#2I presume this is supposed to appeal to the "i dont have any female friends because i am a nerd" crowd. Speaking from personal experience, this ends around 18-19 years of age. Unfortunately - in my opinion - at that age, an "average" guy can barely afford clothes, let alone a personal-shopper-girl he needs to pay money to for the privilege. For older guys, they almost certainly have a friend or a buddy's sister or whatever.
So, if the younger age group is in fact the target, would the girl also be of similar age? Otherwise, i dont see how a 25 year old can shop well for a 17 year old.
What is the ultimte goal here? to make guys more appealing to the opposite sex? Why not take them to a salon instead? A nice haircut and an eye brow plucking would go a long way for many.
Better yet, why not organize group movie dates or similar instead?
PS: Serious thoughts above - really...
Re: Shop with a Girl
#3I presume this is supposed to appeal to the "i dont have any female friends because i am a nerd" crowd. Speaking from personal experience, this ends around 18-19 years of age. Unfortunately - in my opinion - at that age, an "average" guy can barely afford clothes, let alone a personal-shopper-girl he needs to pay money to for the privilege. For older guys, they almost certainly have a friend or a buddy's sister or wh…
> Speaking from personal experience, this ends around 18-19 years of age.
Bad assumption.
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#4We respect you enough to deliberate solicit, and pay for, your help in choosing clothes to purchase, but we're still going to call you a girl. Maybe we think it's cute, maybe it's a belittling way to smother our inadequacies in this field. Who knows. The fact that we're deliberately seeking out "girls" and eliminating 50% of the world's population, many of whom know a great deal about buying clothes for men, is rather suggestive.
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#5Signup sites aren't enough to make a Show HN, so we've taken that out of the title. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
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#6I presume this is supposed to appeal to the "i dont have any female friends because i am a nerd" crowd. Speaking from personal experience, this ends around 18-19 years of age. Unfortunately - in my opinion - at that age, an "average" guy can barely afford clothes, let alone a personal-shopper-girl he needs to pay money to for the privilege. For older guys, they almost certainly have a friend or a buddy's sister or wh…
I disagree. Older guys may have female friends, but I don't know any single friends (including myself when I was single) that ask female friends to go shopping with them - maybe they should, but they don't.
I think it's a pretty big thing to ask a non-girlfriend/non-date to go out on a day shopping with you just to help you out.
Maybe it's a stereotype, but it seems based on fact that a lot more girls enjoy shopping for clothes than guys do and have a better eye for guys' clothes than guys themselves.
Lot's of services with stylists (who are mostly women) picking for clothes for guys & sending them to you in a pack are popping up, like The Cloakroom: https://thecloakroom.nl/en/
The only difference with this is that the guy and girl go out shopping in a city together.
But I also find it curious that the idea draws so many strong reactions - positive & negative. I think the name has an impact.
Interested to hear more thoughts from people.
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#7It has been a long time (7 years? probably closer to 8) since I went shopping with a girl, but as I remember it, the reason why a male is invited to shop is two-fold:
* romantic interest
* feedback (more valuable the more stylish you are yourself)
In which case this tagline:
> girls - get paid to shop with guys and make them look good.
Seems a bit off.
UNEDITED EDIT
So I just read the about, and it looks like I misinterpreted this entirely. This line:
> Guys - go clothes shopping with a girl who has style and likes shopping with guys.
Is not equivalent to this:
> SOME GIRLS, those with a good sense of Style And fashion knowledge, KNOW WHAT clothes LOOK GOOD ON GUYs AND ENJOY going SHOPPING WITH THEM.
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#8"Shop with a girl" has been a personal mantra of mine for about 10 years now, as it has become glaringly obvious that I can't be trusted to make good clothing decisions (as the fairer sex often reminds me).
That being said, I'm not sure how this will work as a service. How often does your average man go shopping for clothes, really? I could see personally using this service once, and a small percent of men would maybe use it once a year. And only men without girlfriends/girl friends/mothers/sisters/whatever would even consider this an option.
It'll be interesting to see how it all plays out. Good luck to ya :)
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#9I presume this is supposed to appeal to the "i dont have any female friends because i am a nerd" crowd. Speaking from personal experience, this ends around 18-19 years of age. Unfortunately - in my opinion - at that age, an "average" guy can barely afford clothes, let alone a personal-shopper-girl he needs to pay money to for the privilege. For older guys, they almost certainly have a friend or a buddy's sister or wh…
I disagree. Older guys may have female friends, but I don't know any single friends (including myself when I was single) that ask female friends to go shopping with them - maybe they should, but they don't. I think it's a pretty big thing to ask a non-girlfriend/non-date to go out on a day shopping with you just to help you out. Maybe it's a stereotype, but it seems based on fact that a lot more girls enjoy shopping…
You're right on the reactions part - personally, i often find style suggestions from my gay friends (im straight) to be more valuable than from girls. Also curious as to why.
On higher end of scale, stores such as bloomingdales and neimanns (burgdorf for those in nyc) offer free personal shoppers.
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#10mmm Men only buy clothes when they need it, I mean if I needed a tie right now I would go to a store and buy many ties, nothing else. Of course there are many compulsive shopping males, but those are probably ok with shopping alone, I think the service would be better if it's sold as a makeover service. just my 2 cents