# Ladies, opinions wanted **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 4, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-opinions-wanted/516324 "2009-11-04T20:03:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kaio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c68b51/32.png) [@Kaio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaio)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-opinions-wanted/516324/21 "2009-11-05T22:35:30Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > I’m thinking along the lines of lifestyle , rather than the more bling type desires. > > Declan I don’t really know what you mean by this. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-opinions-wanted/516324/22 "2009-11-05T22:46:55Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > I also, contrarily, like simple. I admire the photos of food or decorating items on AOL - very clean, brightly lit, simple, perfect pictures of, say, apples in a glass bowl. Or a tall vase with stark branches, or one perfect bird-of-paradise. I like these photos because they depict an elegant, spare, spacious home that isn’t covered with dust and clutter - this home is all clean and bright and needs just that one perfect touch…where do you get a home like that, anyway? I’m serious, I yearn for that beautiful house like ‘some guy’ yearns for a new car. Have you watched Ina Garten/Barefoot Contessa on HGTV? She grates on me because she’s kind of a snob, but the way they film her house feels so wonderful. Clean lines, classic, smooth, liquidy–it’s hard to explain but it outweighs the irritation I feel about her. The home itself plus the style of filming is luscious. ---
**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:** [November 6, 2009, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-opinions-wanted/516324/23 "2009-11-06T03:54:23Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > [http://victoriantradingco.com](http://victoriantradingco.com) THIS catalog is like crack/blow/pornography to me. I save them and look at them more than I’ve ever pored over any family photographs, lol. Also pyramidcollection.com, second runner up but not by much. You too? Basically anything with clothes. Love love love LOVE clothes. I wait anxiously for _People_’s “Best and Worst Dressed” and Oscar fashion edditions. Double points if any pictures of vintage and/or vintage-esque clothes. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-opinions-wanted/516324/24 "2009-11-06T15:09:19Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Have you watched Ina Garten/Barefoot Contessa on HGTV? She grates on me because she’s kind of a snob, but the way they film her house feels so wonderful. Clean lines, classic, smooth, liquidy–it’s hard to explain but it outweighs the irritation I feel about her. The home itself plus the style of filming is luscious. Sorry, it’s on Food Network. ---
**Author:** ![Reepicheep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@Reepicheep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reepicheep)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-opinions-wanted/516324/25 "2009-11-08T06:58:31Z")
Male hand wearing [french cuffs](http://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2009/04/french_cuffs_knot.jpg), onyx cuff link, holding a chocolate drenched strawberry or petting a cat. Elegantly dressed mid-30s man, looking middle distance, with fire place in background. Liquid chocolate over pound cake. Baby animals in large natural settings that emphasizes the animals smallness (one chick in a nest, cub at the foot a tree with lots of tree on each side) The colors turquoise and rich deep gold. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-opinions-wanted/516324/26 "2009-11-08T19:02:29Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > IMHO women like to look at other women in ads too. Not because we want the women, but because we want to be like them. I’m with you on that one. A commercial that comes to mind is the new Yves St. Laurent perfume commercial ([Yves St. Laurent Parisenne](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlVwjzyCvZM)). It’s a commercial of a woman getting all turned on in a cab, playing with a rose, remembering a night of wild passion. It’s a very sexy passionate commercial, and it is totally geared towards getting women turned on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ladies-opinions-wanted/516324.md?page=1)