# Do you adore Dior? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 27, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-adore-dior/805406 "2017-12-27T19:28:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CHealy7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@CHealy7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CHealy7)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-adore-dior/805406/1 "2017-12-27T19:28:45Z")
What are your thoughts on this iconic brand? ---
**Author:** ![Sveltington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@Sveltington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sveltington)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-adore-dior/805406/2 "2017-12-27T21:14:00Z")
I do not adore Dior. I prefer vintage Dior; but I wouldn’t say no to a gift. My favorites are: Oscar de la Renta, vintage Chanel, Alexander McQueen. I have very eclectic fashion tastes. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-adore-dior/805406/3 "2017-12-27T21:16:30Z")
> [@CHealy7](#): > > What are your thoughts on this iconic brand? I couldn’t pick it out of a line-up. So, “indifferent” I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-adore-dior/805406/4 "2017-12-27T22:23:15Z")
How about you start by telling us your own thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-adore-dior/805406/5 "2017-12-27T23:10:38Z")
Dior–I am okay with vintage Dior. I had a friend who wore a Dior perfume, but I don’t remember which one. It smelled great on her, did not smell great on me (to me). My wardrobe is pretty much Ralph Lauren and (checks tags) Eileen Fisher, along with a whole bunch of store brand stuff and some classics like a Levis denim jacket. I think of Dior as fancy dress and too expensive, although I do have a wide Dior belt dating from probably the '60s. However, if I were going to get some new party clothes and had a lot of $$ to spend on them, I’d go with Vera Wang. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-adore-dior/805406/6 "2017-12-28T00:29:59Z")
I’m mostly familiar with their cosmetics. The makeups are sparkly in a special way that nothing else is, but their wearability is weak for all that. Once you’ve tried really pigment-dense eyeshadow, or really long-wearing lipstick, it’s hard to go back. Their perfumes are nauseatingly sweet. I can’t wear them. Instant headache. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-adore-dior/805406/7 "2017-12-28T01:11:25Z")
Oh, I LOVE vintage Dior, if you mean like the “[New Look](https://www.dior.com/couture/en_us/the-house-of-dior/the-story-of-dior/the-new-look-revolution)” and those gorgeous evening gowns from back in the forties and fifties. Other wise, meh. ---
**Author:** ![toast\_pakora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@toast\_pakora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toast_pakora)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-adore-dior/805406/8 "2017-12-28T09:38:56Z")
BAR is my all time favorite design so yes, Dior New Look. I also loved John Galliano’s later collections. Raf Simons was a disaster. Will never understand signing Jennifer Lawrence to a contract; can’t imagine anyone less suitable. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-adore-dior/805406/9 "2017-12-28T11:39:29Z")
Over-priced, unimaginative, tat draped on borderline anorexics. The fashion industry as a whole is a rather toxic concept. ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-adore-dior/805406/10 "2017-12-28T12:54:26Z")
No, I don’t adore Dior. In fact, I wouldn’t know a Dior product if I tripped over one. Sent from my HTC U11 using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-adore-dior/805406/11 "2017-12-28T13:02:22Z")
Love the vintage fashion, not sure if I’ve ever smelled the fragrance, and could happily live out the rest of my existence without having to see Charlize Theron frolicking in the waves spouting nonsense about the earth and sky or whatever she’s on about. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-adore-dior/805406/12 "2017-12-28T14:21:09Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Love the vintage fashion, not sure if I’ve ever smelled the fragrance, and could happily live out the rest of my existence without having to see Charlize Theron frolicking in the waves spouting nonsense about the earth and sky or whatever she’s on about. We rarely watch live TV and pretty much never with adverts but after a short burst of xmas-time commercial TV my kids have immediately grasped the idiocy of those adverts. They now quite happily scripting their own spoof fragrance commercials whenever they smell anything particularly notable. This can be embarrassing as the majority of strong-scent wearers we come across in the street probably wouldn’t see the funny side. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-adore-dior/805406/13 "2017-12-28T17:24:50Z")
I adore vintage Dior and (I am almost ashamed to admit) some current day Dior, no matter how odd the creations. Some of the gowns are beautiful as far as material but grotesque in style (this is current, mind you, not vintage!) I follow a fashion blog, so I see examples of garments crafted by different designers, and can tell a Marquessa from an Alexander McQueen. I also adore vintage Dior perfumes. Diorissimo, lily of the valley, the very essence of spring. Miss Dior, a career-girl-of-the-fifties scent, you can almost see the red lipstick, houndstooth tweed suit and little hat, and stilletos, as she lights up a Chesterfield. Some of the more current perfumes are aimed at ‘the younger customer’ and pretty much stink. I can picture a bored debutante idly tossing a $$$ bottle in her shopping basket, on daddy’s dime. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-adore-dior/805406/14 "2017-12-28T21:55:00Z")
[Moderating] Since the OP doesn’t seem to have any intention of discussing this, neither in his OP nor in the subsequent 24 hours, I’m going to close it.