 Poster: A snowHead
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Fat people probably know better than to wear them
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Nope. If we're being fascist, let's go for it ..... it's the fat women who wear the tightest trousers and the shortest tops. 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Chicks and milfs who wear Bogner are usually hot.
It is good kit.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I'd never have guessed this would be the place to come for fashion advice,. Please post photos so I can see what you think people ought to wear. Fascists
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In fairness I think people should wear what the hell they like. I think I should be able to laugh at them for it though. And vice versa naturally.
I used to be rather monochrome but have gone a bit more colourful in recent years - partly for photographic reasons as you say, partly because people used to moan about not being able to see me well when I was waiting and the vis was poor, mainly midlife crisis obvs.
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In fairness I think people should wear what the hell they like. I think I should be able to laugh at them for it though. And vice versa naturally.
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@jedster,
+1 its all personal choice, it'd be a boring world if we all looked the same
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The definitive statement on colours
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Bright colours used to be wack but then they came right back..Pro skiers look like a bag of skittles
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Nine years ago mind - how time flies
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Actually, don't knock Bogner, who here could come up with a business plan where you take a clothing item, add a few badges & sell it on for 20x production cost, if people are dumb enough to pay the price for a label?
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@tangowaggon, mm, I've never had any other item of ski clothing last for over 25 years. The thing was bomb-proof, just superbly made and tailored. (I have no idea whether the quality is as good now.)
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I loved hot tub time machine, where the more flashy the outfit , the better. I miss the whacky hats too. 
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You know it makes sense.
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who here could come up with a business plan where you take a clothing item, add a few badges & sell it on for 20x production cost
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Anyone with a football /rugby club?
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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@galpinos,
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you are middle aged
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Yep. 46 with a dad bod (and proud of it too)
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bright colours came back
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Not quite in all of dayglo 80's glory!!
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Poster: A snowHead
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It’s not the colours. Colour is great. Who can forget the original Elho Freestyle!
It’s the gaudy, tackiness of the brand. It seems they’ve toned down the heinous badges but the tiger stripes remain. This beauty from the latest collection is $2500
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Tbh, I was completely unaware of the Bogner brand until recently
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Whitegold wrote: |
Chicks and milfs who wear Bogner are usually hot.
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Your 17 year old self just called, and wants his chat up lines back.
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| tangowaggon wrote: |
| Tbh, I was completely unaware of the Bogner brand until recently |
It’s not a proper James Bond ski scene without a bit of Bogner.
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It’s not the colours. Colour is great. Who can forget the original Elho Freestyle!
It’s the gaudy, tackiness of the brand. It seems they’ve toned down the heinous badges but the tiger stripes remain. This beauty from the latest collection is $2500
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Take away the tiger stripes and make it in a fetching shade of rasperry or chartreusse and that would pass for Norrona
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Very sad world if we all dressed in black north face.....
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The illustrious name of Bogner is as inextricably intertwined with the history and image of skiing as Mathias Zdarsky.
Leaving aside the many Olympic and World Championship medals won by Bogner father and son, without Maria Bogner’s fashion sensibility we wouldn’t have had the women’s stretch pants known as “Bogners”. No retro posters of glamorous lady skiers posing ecstatically in front of the Matterhorn. No iconic images of Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and Ingrid Bergman looking alluring in their Bogners.
Without Willy Bogner Jr.’s talents we wouldn’t have had all those thrilling skiing sequences in so many Bond films, and what would Roger Moore have worn (Campri, Nevica)?
Bogner has been at the forefront of skiing fashion for 84 years, and their original and imaginative designs sell for megabucks in the most exclusive ski apparel boutiques.
Never understated - but since when has a Ferrari been understated.
(Alternatively they’re tacky and ostentatious - it’s all subjective I suppose.)
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@Dave of the Marmottes,
Not a fan of onesies, but I beg to differ but on the comparison!
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@tatmanstours, how can you compare a Pinafarina designed Ferrari to Bogner 
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@tatmanstours, how can you compare a Pinafarina designed Ferrari to Bogner
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Pininfarina.
You're thinking of pina colada 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Beatiful car messed up with a stripe on the bonnet.
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Beatiful car messed up with a stripe on the bonnet.
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I agree - that's why I plumped for a Vauxhall Zafira.
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You know it makes sense.
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I think those one-piece images (Bogner and Norrona) sum it up beautifully. They both look equally weird to me, and if you showed them to people who were not skiers (who had not been instructed on the "brand values"), then you'd not know the difference.
If you like the Norrona you want us to think you're a "hard man/woman of the mountains", even if you're fa.
The Bogner is supposed to tell us that you're rich and probably not as fat.
I think obese people in overalls aren't selling much to the likes of me, I'm afraid. Ferrari? Those're all statement, mostly badly designed from a usability perspective. So maybe like Bogner in that sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Bogner still make the German Ski Team clothing. I know several people who wear their race suits and have either replica or second hand team jackets.
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Poster: A snowHead
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@philwig, The Norrona onesy is a great piece of well designed kit if you're skiing deep powder. Not so good if you need to go to the WC though, a pita for apres ski when it gets warm in that crazy Austrian bar.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Wow. I didn't realise the kit you ware said so much about you as a person..... I must be a major knob
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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If some of the skiers of my acquaintance spent as much on ski lessons as they do on new gear, they’d be brilliant skiers - but no doubt less “cool”. Ski clothing is of course the perfect kind of apparel for displaying designer labels and logos (as Spyder has fully exploited).
On the other hand, there is an obvious difference in quality and comfort that you notice as soon as you put on a high-end jacket.
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| rjs wrote: |
| Bogner still make the German Ski Team clothing |
I think this explains it! (With apologies in advance to any budding German fashion designers  )
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Have to say that much as that Norrona onesey would be great if you were heliskiiing in alaska, if you were wearing it on a typical day in the Alps and weren't skiing too impeccably to laugh at I'd think you were more ludicrous than someone in Bogner. If you are writing those kind of cheques you better have the skills to cash them 
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@jedster, that said most people typically buy at 40% off in sales don't they?
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fair point - I did mean metaphorical cheques but you are quite right that most people only contemplate those things when they are deeply discounted so can claim they weren't taking it too seriously!
disclosure - I did spend 10 minutes considering buying a similar sweet protection onesie at 50% off on sport pursuit. It was a better colour (nice green not canary yellow) but I decided I'd be too embarrassed to wear it. Clearly my MLC hadn't reached critical.
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| WASHOUT wrote: |
| Very sad world if we all dressed in black north face..... |
I almost regard North Face as too expensive & pretentious
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