To feel "posh"

The next bad weather day I'm going to do this!

My DC would LOVE it!!

Oh yes I feel so middle class (which is very posh to this working class background East End girl!) when my DC wear Boden. Also Jojo stuff I feel the same.

They have the towelling dresses for the beach.

It's funny as a lot of my stuff is Boden but that doesn't make me feel posh.

Also,to the people that keep saying that Boden is chavvy etc... You don't know what you are talking about! Boden is a bit safe ,a boring choice if you are really into fashion and trends but it is definitely not chavvy!
I would put it in the same category as M&S,Jonh Lewis,The White Company,Gap,Hush,J.Crew and the kind.Safe ,clean-cut middle class attire.When wearing it you are not setting the fashion world on fire but you don't look like a chav either (far from it!).

@Maggiesfarm You are thinking of the old Burberry before Christopher Bailey and then Riccardo Tisci took over. It hasn't been chavvy for a while ,in fact is very fashionable.

I feel posh when I wear my Toast Linen apron to cook in, it was such a treat.

I bought an awful lot in the ando sale.

My husband asked when we were moving the Mayfair when he saw the receipt.

Beyond that we’re very basic.

We got cutlery from made too. And I’ve grown my own veg this year that makes me feel like nigella bloody Lawson!

When I brought a jar of pasta sauce in Waitrose yesterday I'd been to collect a bundle of second hand clothes for DD for nursery from a nearby town on my lunch break. I was doing spaghetti for tea and normally I'd make the sauce, but needed to get a few things done in the afternoon for work before the kids got back from nursery at 4.30. so on my way back from the other town, I called in at Waitrose for a jar sauce. I had a word with myself in the car buying something easily made for a comparatively high price but I just wouldn't have the time, and the kids would be shattered from nursery so knew dinner needed to be ready when they got in.

Oh and I also have a frugi habit like pps, although only in the sale. The clothes are so soft and bright! Supermarket clothes for boys are dull, repetitive and covered in paw patrol or mine craft logos. I do either sell on or hand them down to DD though (or both). Some of DSs stuff still look in excellent condition after being worn by both.

Admittedly, I grew up rather pampered as I was privately educated and we lived in a naice, large detached house on a smart estate (all respect to my lovely Dad for providing this, considering he grew up in a council house with no indoor loo).

But it still impresses me how casually our DDs treat eating out on a very regular basis. They're always meeting their friends for lunch at 'posh' cafes or coffee in Starbucks. Going out/out for dinner happens very regularly too. When I was a teen in the 80s stopping for a milkshake in Wimpy was the height of sophistication 😍😍😍

I still feel posh when I buy food to eat when we are travelling anywhere.
My parents always packed our sandwiches and we had a flask and thermos with beverages each to last the journey.
I feel posh even just getting a burger in the petrol station!

The towelling shorts are not even comparable to chinos etc anyway.
Their function is as practical and very comfortable wear - very soft and absorbent and with colourful, apt patterns- for young children on holiday having fun near water, sand, grass mud, picnic food and so on.

The luxury lies precisely in their being something to buy for holiday or weekend play only, without the smartness of plain chinos, or the year round practicality of jeans. An additional sense of luxury would be because getting something from Boden.

Sorry I’ve just looked up Bodensee towelling shorts and I’m perplexed as to why you reckon they’re posh 🤔 The fabric isn’t expensive and they’re sort of gapey….I think they’re naff and chavvy for day time wear

You actually took the time to go and Google those shorts in order to be as spiteful & derogatory about them as possible? Seriously? Your life must be so empty and bitter.

We have a shopping area nearby with a number of charity shops and a great coffee shop. I love nothing better than to browse the bookshelves of the charity shops and then retreat to the coffee shop with my purchases for a huge toasted tea cake and coffee.

When I was little I used to think that having a serving hatch in the dining was the very height of poshness, also, my aunty had a green onyx coffee table with gold legs that she kept a matching 'table lighter' and ashtray on, ohhhhh the glamour!

Perrier - that reminds me of Orangina. That felt super posh when it first arrived in the UK in the 80s!

I bought Dusk bedding in the sale, it's fab. I also bought new towels from John Lewis for the first time recently. Felt incredibly decadent.

We have a gardener... it costs about £75 a month and is worth every penny. I do feel posh

We also have a Juliet balcony... not put in by us I hasten to add, but I do love it.

"they're not to get wet, just to go over a wet swimsuit"

Ah!

I was wondering what the "point" of them was iyswim!

We used to have a beach holiday every year & mum would make us a towelling beach robe!

Pretty sure we used to slip the wet things off first though.

"A thing that ideally requires ironing is posh". Only if you're posh enough to have a tame pleb to do the ironing for you. Otherwise it's just a pain.

I do a lot of this and have never considered it posh at all. We regularly frequent bookshops then will read them in a local park or coffee shop. I’ve had a Frugi addiction since my older ones were small so about 11 years now! Also always bought them Polarn o Pyret or Boden coats because they last well but they’re older now and don’t think they’re cool so they have Zara ones.

My John Lewis towels made me feel posh.

Brilliant quality, thick, luxurious and actually very reasonable prices but love having JL towels that have a JL label too in my guest loo and family bathroom.

Way back in the very early 80’s Perrier water made me feel posh. How times have changed. 😁 I used my Perrier bottle as a vase for a while 😜

So much snearing on this chat.
And as for the poster who thinks Burberry "hasn't recovered". Riccardo Tisci's Burberry?! Are you sure .
Vilebrequin.... posh. Hahahahah. Don't get me wrong, my husband has a few pairs of these but we are under no illusions they are anything but new money/Dubai pool shorts.

As an aside, Mother care used to do lots of towelling stuff in the 70’s and 80’s for babies and toddlers, they were absolutely brilliant for absorbing dribbles, spilt food etc. My daughter in law had a set her mum had saved and put her little one in it and commented that it was perfect material for children and why don’t they make them any more.