https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/brs-big-tease Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:12:56 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/brs-big-tease#post-1378031 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:15:29 +0000 catgirl 1378031@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>J crew does this too. Annoying as heck. I'm not above buying boys or men's clothes but the bait and switch is aggravating. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/brs-big-tease#post-1377920 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 19:56:10 +0000 Carole 1377920@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm confused...as if shopping online wasn't hard enough already! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/brs-big-tease#post-1377906 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 19:35:15 +0000 Kristin SF 1377906@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>And my biggest pet peeve....why the stock differences between CA and US? </p> <p>These 2 Finds are available in CA but not on the US site. </p> <p>The b/w stripe sweater is so cute. Hoping that will appear on the US site soon.</p> <p>But the pink boucle jacket was on the US site for a while, then just<br /> disappeared a few weeks ago, though still available in CA. So I've been stalking it and waiting for it to reappear in the<br /> US. And now I see that the jacket is on sale in CA, but my size is gone. Argh! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/brs-big-tease#post-1377902 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 19:28:42 +0000 Kristin SF 1377902@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Linda, that sweater caught my eye, too - and it's there, just not in the color shown in the pic.<br /><a href="http://bananarepublic.gap.com/browse/product.do?cid=77996&amp;vid=1&amp;pid=131226002" rel="nofollow">http://bananarepublic.gap.com/.....=131226002</a></p> <p>How annoying!!</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/brs-big-tease#post-1377838 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:49:11 +0000 Jules 1377838@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Good eye Linda - the sweater is also MIA! Pretty funny, really. Apparently, their own fashion shoot&nbsp;stylists are in effect&nbsp;telling them that their main stock isn't good enough to use for their advertising.<br />I mean, it is&nbsp;BR. Except for the special collaboration stuff, it's basically pretty standard&nbsp;office wear -&nbsp;&nbsp;which I don't really need. Any such items I purchase&nbsp;need to be interesting/on-trend in some way that appeals to me.&nbsp;Hence why I don't shop there! So why do they try to suck me into thinking they are cooler than they really are??? Marketing/stylist fantasy world vs. their actual niche? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/brs-big-tease#post-1377823 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:26:58 +0000 Thistle 1377823@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>That is really frustrating!</p> <p>Why not sell the pieces that you are putting into a lookbook?!?&nbsp; Unless you think the look is "too out there". But BR is mainstream store. Their lookbook should appeal to people who want to buy their clothes . . . </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/brs-big-tease#post-1377818 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:17:00 +0000 Elizabeth P 1377818@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I wondered if it was these pants.<br /><a href="http://bananarepublic.gapcanada.ca/browse/product.do?cid=1017803&amp;vid=1&amp;pid=129247003" rel="nofollow">http://bananarepublic.gapcanad.....=129247003</a></p> <p>But upsized and somehow uplengthed (?) given the model is 5'11"....</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/brs-big-tease#post-1377815 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:13:11 +0000 milehighstyle (Linda) 1377815@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, so it's not just me.&nbsp; I received an e mail from BR with a photo of a sweater that I loved and could. not. find. it. on the website.&nbsp;<br /> It's the same sweater that she's wearing with those fictional pants.</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/brs-big-tease#post-1377782 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:18:37 +0000 AviaMariah 1377782@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love the whole promotional outfit. &nbsp;How frustrating! &nbsp;I does sound like they're saying to try the guy's pants but I can't imagine that would really work for most gals. &nbsp;I think the proportions would be wrong and they pants would just look messy instead of slouchy. &nbsp;Frustrating. I wonder if you purchased an over sized pair of men's or women's if a tailor could make them look like the promotional shot.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/brs-big-tease#post-1377756 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:33:29 +0000 Anonymous 1377756@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Ah, well at least you picked up on it as deceptive advertising! I would have been banging my head against the wall thinking I was too dense to find the pants on the sight and blaming myself for it. That's annoying and just plain wrong.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/brs-big-tease#post-1377751 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 15:20:37 +0000 Mona 1377751@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>This is exactly what happened to me yesterday. So annoying! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/brs-big-tease#post-1377716 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:52:06 +0000 bj1111 1377716@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>this has happened before...i tried to find a jacket depicted in one of the looks only to have it unavailable for purchase in that lookbook color. &nbsp;</p> <p>not fond of this bait-and-seitch </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/brs-big-tease#post-1377711 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:49:23 +0000 Jules 1377711@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Yeah &nbsp;- I looked through the men's pants but nothing quite added up. I wonder what would happen if I went to a store and started trying on men's pants? </p> <p>For my body,&nbsp;I'd far prefer a menswear-inspired women's pant. Most women's office pants, including BR's,&nbsp;are styled very differently from that these days - body con, stretch fabrics etc.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/brs-big-tease#post-1377699 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:38:23 +0000 Greyscale 1377699@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I had the same reaction! I think they were actually suggesting shopping in the men's section but then they don't show the men's pants when you click through. Pretty sure those are men's pants in the photo? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/brs-big-tease#post-1377688 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:14:48 +0000 Jules 1377688@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Right? If you think that's what people want, sell it... </p> <p>The&nbsp;Slim-Fit Textured Gray Straight Leg do look better in the styled photo, that's how I would wear them... either showing the ankle, or you know, FULL LENGTH. Not in between!</p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/brs-big-tease#post-1377685 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:11:33 +0000 Elly 1377685@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I saw those pants and another version too and wasn't able to find any that actually looked like that on the website--- I love their promo looks, but don't feel like the actual pieces are being presented on the website in the way they are in the promo, which is confusing for consumers.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/brs-big-tease#post-1377681 Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:05:58 +0000 Jules 1377681@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Check out this link for the "Borrow from the Boys" come-on picture of&nbsp;and copy about, long, slouchy pants. Then click through to see the pants they are actually selling - too short (but not short enough to be ankle pants?), and worn quite snug and fitted in the crotch area (ie, not slouchy. At all). Even without the tease, those pants look bad to me as worn and styled - kind of shrunken -&nbsp;and there's obviously no link between them and what was promised. The fabric doesn't even look the same (no drape).&nbsp;</p> <p>Maybe the US site has the pants pictured actually&nbsp;for sale? This is what I hate about GAP/BR marketing and why I unsubscribed &nbsp;from their emails - too many teaser shots with no items to back them up.<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="http://bananarepublic.gapcanada.ca/browse/division.do?cid=5002&amp;mlink=8330031,topNavW&amp;clink=8330031">http://bananarepublic.gapcanad.....nk=8330031</a></p> <p></p> <p>Edit, hmm, maybe I am supposed to be literally looking at the men's stuff. Can't figure out which pants would be those, though.</p>