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 Fri, Mar 17 2023, 3:53 pm
| amother OP wrote: | My point isn't to rehash that thread but just wondering if any BPers like me exist.
- I don't look perfect when I go out,
- I hate the pressure that we have to look perfect
- I don't like the prices for local stuff, and I hate that if I want to get from non-Jewish stores I need to try to match it to the BP fashion, otherwise my children will stick out.
Just in general I get really pressured by all this focus on looking just perfect and when I don't get it exactly right, I feel looked down upon.
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So why do you live there? There are other places to live where things are not this way, and they have Jewish schools, shuls, mikvaot, kosher places to eat and all or most of the necessities of Jewish life, if perhaps not in quite the same abundance.
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Fri, Mar 17 2023, 3:57 pm
| zaq wrote: | | So why do you live there? There are other places to live where things are not this way, and they have Jewish schools, shuls, mikvaot, kosher places to eat and all or most of the necessities of Jewish life, if perhaps not in quite the same abundance. |
Read this thread.
https://www.imamother.com/foru.....esult
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Fri, Mar 17 2023, 4:02 pm
| amother Pumpkin wrote: | Lots of Boro Parkers shop in Primark, Old Navy, Gap, H&M, etc. We don't search for "that perfect thing that matches with what BP is currently selling". We are just attracted to a certain style, so when we find it, we buy it.
About the tights, considering that BP is predominately chassidish, and tights and mid-length skirts are part of the "dress code" (tznius standard), it won't be abolished.
I do think, at the end of the game, it comes down to how much you care (or don't). Most people passing by you in the street don't pay any attention to how put together you or kids are, or if your carriage is freshly washed or not. |
So I guess I'm not specifically attracted to that style, but I feel in order to fit in I need to get that style.
Yes I know I shouldn't care.
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Fri, Mar 17 2023, 4:29 pm
| amother Ballota wrote: | | my adult daughter claims boro parkers are somewhat shabby looking. |
Why is that? Odd comment…
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Fri, Mar 17 2023, 5:09 pm
| amother Ballota wrote: | | my adult daughter claims boro parkers are somewhat shabby looking. |
Well that’s not true 😂 has she ever been to BP?
We may not agree on much as a klal, but on this I think we can agree! In general, boro Parker’s are very put together whatever the OPPOSITE of shabby is
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Fri, Mar 17 2023, 5:14 pm
| amother Ballota wrote: | | my adult daughter claims boro parkers are somewhat shabby looking. |
What a silly comment to make. There are so many women living there. How can they all be shabby looking??? What does she define as shabby anyways?
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Fri, Mar 17 2023, 5:26 pm
| amother Butterscotch wrote: | Well that’s not true 😂 has she ever been to BP?
We may not agree on much as a klal, but on this I think we can agree! In general, boro Parker’s are very put together whatever the OPPOSITE of shabby is |
my daughter meant shabby as in the opposite of expensive looking.
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Fri, Mar 17 2023, 5:28 pm
| amother Butterscotch wrote: | Well that’s not true 😂 has she ever been to BP?
We may not agree on much as a klal, but on this I think we can agree! In general, boro Parker’s are very put together whatever the OPPOSITE of shabby is |
my daughter lives in BP and simply meant that in other neighborhoods people look more pricey from head to toe. She did not mean anything negative at all.
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Fri, Mar 17 2023, 6:27 pm
| amother Ballota wrote: | | my daughter lives in BP and simply meant that in other neighborhoods people look more pricey from head to toe. She did not mean anything negative at all. |
She has a point. There is a large percentage of people who have classy plain and not new style coats/wigs/skirts and they look put together. I can imagine which neighborhood she is talking about but let’s not go there..
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