To be irritated with all the USA themed clothing?

@mathanxiety I think it might have been a made up place to be honest 😂

@Pihrd

Needmorelego referred to it as a camping place and you surmised it was Grand Teton National Park, which was probably correct. It does have half a dozen campsites in its 485 square miles, and you can get a backcountry camping permit too, but it's not primarily a place to go camping. Backcountry exploration is only ok if you have experience and know-how and are very well equipped.

These styles have been sold for years.
It's not unwanted stock.

Yes - I do judge people who wear things with logos and slogans which have no meaning for them. OK, maybe you are a Harvard graduate. If so - fine. But I bet Harvard graduates would be the last people to wear such things!

(Armstrong and Miller did a brilliant sketch about Harbour Patrol...not specifically American, but it's hilarious on meaningless logos and slogans on clothing. Sorry I haven't posted a link, but it's on YouTube.)

China offloading their stuff cos they knew tariffs were coming.

Thanks.
I've not been in Primark for a few weeks (and their stock changes so quickly).
I want a new hoodie. I don't mind flowers or something on it - but not a random American city/college/sports team 😂😂

Primark definitely have the over the head ones in lots of colours.

The zip up ones always seem to be lots of pretty colours but the non zip up ones are often the dull colours 🙁

I was in Primark last week and they had women’s hoodies in red, pink, green, blue, purple as well as grey, brown and black.

I do find that in Primark the women's ones that are plain are often just black, navy or grey (boring) or cream (gets grubby too quickly) but the mens section has a whole rainbow of lovely colours.
(don't get me started on blimmin cropped hoodies either.....😂)

Yes. But I also think that buttons look weird on clothes if they’re just sewn on randomly instead of being functional so I probably take it a bit far.

I don’t see the problem. DD1 has gone up a size. I bought her half a dozen new plain sweatshirts from Next, etc.

What I have noticed is Primark has been big on Hello Kitty since about September, as it’s the 50th anniversary. Both DDs love the stuff! Italian themed decorations on t shirts and hoodies also seem big at New Look, Peacocks, etc. I got DD1 a nice pale yellow t shirt and sweatshirt, with Amalfi in pale blue across the front - but we have been there and I thought the colours were were nice. Ditto, Next and New Look do t shirts with pictures of fruit or pasta, glasses of wine and tomatoes.

Imo, these are preferable to some slogans on t shirts?

Lots of people saying it's so easy to get plain hoodies or sweatshirt , but I struggle to find ones that aren't
Cropped (because sure of course I want a cold stomach)
Longer length (comes to my knees!)
Relaxed (drowns me)
Or some other weird fit! And when I do find the holy grail plain normal fit, oh its only in grey or black, no nice colours!

At least Oxford and Cambridge are names of actual cities so you could visit them and have nothing to do with the universities. But Harvard etc aren't universities that are in a city called Harvard (or Yale or wherever...)
If you went as a tourist to wherever Harvard is wouldn't you want a souvenir of that place? (checks Google to find out where Harvard actually is...... Cambridge in Massachusetts - that's confusing 😂)
Edit : Princeton is actually in Princeton New Jersey! No idea where Yale is but I know it's not a city called Yale)

Primani? Tk maxx? M & S, Zara
Literally dozens of places you can get plain clothing.
But why anyone would want to wear any 'labelled' or logo'd clothing is beyond me. You're just an advertising board for the company. Any item with a designer logo or specific design says much about the person and their neediness, but mainly screams 'look at me, i am happy to pay this compny a lot of money to be a walking advertising hoard for them'

See the same with Oxford and Cambridge University hoodies.

I may start a thread saying how much sweatshirts with dates on really irritate me 😆

Thread reminded me of this news item 😀

news.stv.tv/scotland/japanese-designer-selling-range-of-shirts-with-random-scottish-place-names

Grand Teton National Park is not a campsite. It is a really glorious Alpine national park, full of bears and other wildlife.

Just once I would like to see a proper souvenir one with "Mummy went to Harvard and all I got was this lousy hoodie."

In fairness though we do get a lot of Union Jack clothes over here. And your football ⚽️ is gaining popularity so I think it’s evening out. Maybe you’ve all stumbled on a money maker… print up a bunch of hoodies with your town names or local football clubs and market them to Americans.

If you can’t beat them make money off of them join them !

I have several, they’re in the mainstream shops because it’s the trend in thrift shops in the uk, the rise of people into watching ncaa sports and just the popularity of American culture, I doubt anyone is getting them to pretend they went to that college.

This trend irritates me too OP. They look like souvenirs and I would feel odd wearing the stuff if I had never been to the place.

I was in Boston last year and got me and the kids sweatshirts / t shirts with Boston on it whilst there as souvenirs. I stopped short at Harvard merch, even though we went to see the campus - think it’s beyond dick-ish to wear those if you haven’t actually been a student there or have an otherwise close connection - do the people who do think they are fooling/ impressing people I wonder?!