- Do you ever go into a shop,
look at the outfit on the mannequin,
and think, "Oh, that is hot!
I wanna try it on."
You try it on, and it looks horrific?
- The mannequin challenge is not proving
to be very effective, - No.
- in actually finding clothes, unfortunately.
I love that this is now on the internet forever.
It's Sohan and Zeta, your internet besties,
and we're gonna take you on a fashion journey.
- A journey.
To the shops and beyond.
(Zeta and Sohan laugh)
Not really.
(Zeta and Sohan laugh)
So we obviously don't represent all body shapes, or sizes,
but we're also definitely not mannequin bodies.
- No, so our challenge today, is to go to a few shops.
We're going to General Pants, Zara, and Sportsgirl.
We're gonna try on the outfits on the mannequin,
and answer the ultimate question.
Will it look good off the mannequin?
- So, what's your experience, normally, shopping
in stores, IRL?
- Horrible.
Why did I agree to do this,
because it's literally, diving
into traumatic experiences from my childhood.
I'm not those sizes that is usually stocked
in your general shopping center,
so I hate shopping in store.
- If that's your baseline, which is like,
the bar is on the floor.
- On the floor. - The bar is on the floor,
it can only get better.
- Yes, hopefully. We'll see.
(both laugh) - We'll see.
Okay, first stop, TBH one of my favorites, General Pants.
- Flavorites? - I think I said
General Plants.
- [Cameraman] You said General Plants, yeah.
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- I can already see some great outfits.
- What? - So instantly walking
into General Pants,
the first thing I see on the the mannequins is skin.
So much skin is showing!
And that makes me so nervous.
There's no top under there.
- [Sohan] Free the nipple.
- [Zeta] I will not be wearing that today.
(background noise drowns out speaker)
- I know. - So these are the girlies
I have chosen to go with,
definitely not something
that that we would normally wear,
but that's the whole point I guess,
- Yeah. - so we may as well.
Came to see if they are gonna fit our bodies though,
so now let's shop.
- Okay, I'm looking for a 14 so,
I think they might fit actually.
- [Zeta] Yeah, I think they might fit.
- We'll see how it goes.
Now I need to find everything else,
and this is way harder than I thought it would be.
(bell dings)
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- [Zeta] So General Pants
to say the least, was an experience.
- It was like a red flag,
when they just didn't have my size
in the store, so I had go down a size.
It was just really tight.
The cut out places,
were just not places that I would normally cut out.
- Yeah. - Like I need material
in that spot.
It was a better experience for you,
you actually got a winner out of it.
- I did! I got a jacket.
To be honest, I would have never ever tried,
or considered buying,
if it wasn't on the mannequin.
So, that's an instant win to be honest.
- Big win.
Oh yeah, oh my God what a success.
- [Zeta] But I guess it did get us out of our comfort zone,
trying something we wouldn't normally try.
- [Sohan] Definitely would never
have tried that outfit otherwise,
so trying something new.
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- [Sohan] Which one should we try,
I really like all of them.
- [Zeta] I'll do the one in green,
that's something I would never ever wear.
- [Sohan] Oh my God, try the lime green.
I think I'm gonna try the blue, just to shake things up,
and make it as hard for myself as possible,
because we're here to make it difficult.
- [Zeta] Actually as soon as we walked into Zara,
I found my outfit from the mannequin.
- [Sohan] Such a vibe for you though,
I was like, "This is gonna be epic."
- Yeah. - Nothing you
would normally wear,
- No. - but like Zeta,
like corporate Zeta.
The blue set that's at front of the store,
with the dress and the blazer,
I couldn't find it anywhere in the store.
- [Store Assistant] You'll have to ask the staff upstairs.
- [Sohan] Okay.
So I decided to give up, and try the orange dress instead.
Which I was very worried about,
because again it was giving like corporate model vibes.
- Yeah.
- I literally hate it how when you get the bigger sizes,
its always super long,
like just because I'm wide,
doesn't mean I'm seven foot tall.
(Zeta laughing)
- Oh no.
Honestly this is like not as bad as I thought it would be.
I loved it in theory,
I was like, love the colors, love the vibe,
but it just didn't translate
to our vibe I think. - No, I know.
- I like this on you though. - It's just too long.
But like those specific fits were not good for us.
- No, and I honestly love Zara,
- Same! - because they take
high fashion, and translate it
to accessible fashion very quickly.
- Yeah. - So its very trendy.
This isn't what I would normally buy from Zara at all.
- No. - And you can see why.
- [Zeta] Yeah.
- This is like the most, least flattering thing
I could possibly wear.
I love that this is now on the internet forever.
(Zeta laughing)
- The clothes that weren't on a mannequin,
I was like, "I'm obsessed with this,
I'm obsessed with it."
- Literally! - There was
this purple fluffy jacket, and I was like, "That's for me."
- [Sohan] Okay I love the green,
but I know this fit's not gonna do me any favors.
- [Zeta] No.
- [Sohan] If you identify with that,
and I identify with that.
Lets just give it a go. - Yeah, lets do those.
- [Sohan] Okay.
Sportsgirl has a place in my heart.
It was so easy to find the clothes,
- Mm-hmm. - as soon as you walked
in it was right there. - Mm-hmm.
- Great shopping experience.
I honestly thought this was the biggest success.
- Bye, good luck.
(bell dings)
- [Sohan] Shockingly, Sportsgirl really delivered.
like ten out of ten experience,
Because growing up,
they actually were a little bit more inclusive
with their sizing,
so I would always just go, and look,
and see what was in there no matter what.
- [Zeta] I think their mannequins were more friendly
to what we would wear.
It had color, the fits were good.
- [Sohan] I already owned a similar skirt.
- [Zeta] Yeah!
- [Sohan] I was like, "I'm down with that."
- [Zeta] Yeah.
And they were just like way more casual.
So, I don't know, Sportsgirl,
way to finish off the video, honestly.
I think the thing with Sportsgirl,
even though the mannequins were small,
like when the outfits were put on, kind of everyday people,
or taken off the mannequin, it still looked good.
The sizes at least we got, it still worked,
it still looked good.
- Don't be afraid to just try on, what's on the mannequin,
because while it might not be exactly what you would wear,
it might open your eyes up
to something else that you wouldn't normally try.
- Exactly.
- And you might be surprised with what you find.
- Yes. - Like Zeta with the jacket.
- With the fluffy jacket.
- Yeah. - Would I ever
have owned a fluffy jacket before today?
No, but here we are.
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