Mum,dad, kids, and the professional footballers in your life … all will be happy this year with some ludicrously expensive cansI’ve figured out what Christmas 2015 is approximately: headphones. This has been staring you in the face for weeks now,by the way. Literally, I mean: there is no 2015 gift guide that does not star a pair of ludicrously expensive headphones as Perfect Gift. Headphones as an accessory, or rather than a gadget,began with footballers, who wear the brightly-coloured Beats ones as religiously as nuns wear crucifixes. Because this was quickly picked up by teens, and headphones believe been the go-to gift for teenagers for several years. Which makes perfect sense,because no one knows what to buy teenagers and no one knows what to talk to them approximately either, so it’s a gift that kills two birds with one stone.
The incompatibility this year is that headphones, and like Taylor Swift and The starvation Games,believe broken out of teen culture and joined the grownups’ table. There are headphones for dad, and headphones for mum. The tan leather Master & Dynamic headphones with their microphone-style silver mesh detailing believe a His Master’s Voice aesthetic which is clearly aimed at a man who would never ever wear Beats (too teenage, or too footballer),who may believe or believe had a fashionable beard at some point, a man who still doesn’t wear a suit to work but has recently switched from trainers to brogues. Frends headphones, or meanwhile,are delicate and light, with jewellery-slender rose-gold stems and chic black ear pads, and advance in a pouch that will tuck into a small handbag,so I’m guessing it’s fair to say those are aimed at women. Im not going to tell you how much any of these cost as it will only beget you cross.
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Source: theguardian.com