What have you thought was posh, only to find out its not?

[LivingDeadGirlUK]

I have never been to The Range, I always thought it was a posh garden center. My partner has laughed at me and said its basically a Wilkos with plants. I still think that sounds pretty cool though!

Has anyone else expected something to be posh, only to have their hopes and dreams dashed?

Soda stream, I used to think they were the height of sophistication.

I was influenced by the Imperial Leather adverts of the 70s where the couple were going to Bermuda. I buy it for myself now so I can be posh!

Sylvanian families were posh when I was a kid, only the rich kids had them as well as trampolines (which a few years later everyone had).

Mum and my older sister used to make our clothes at home for special occasions eg Eid, weddings. We would buy fabric off the roll, design and then make the outfits. 4 at least. I used to envy the people who had ready made clothes from shops 🙂
We are Indian so there weren't too many Indian clothes shops back in the 80s, loads now. In fact hardly anyone makes their own clothes these days.

When we first joined Costco we took my mother. As we walked round she loudly announced ‘I think they will let anyone in’.

Imperial leather soap, especially if you had one of those holders where you stuck a magnet in the soap and it attached to the wall.

4711 cologne, I used to have a dab of my grandmas. Also powder puffs!

Hotels

Eating out, we had to take a packed lunch. Very occasionally we would go to BHS cafe for the 99p special

First class on trains or Business class on flights

Southern accents

Not me but family members - saying sweet for pudding, settee for sofa or serviette for napkin

People who had a car (child of the 70s)

Only children

Where I grew up horse racing was very civilised but I imagined British racing to be extremely posh, based mostly on photographs from the Royal enclosure.
Then I moved to the UK and went to Aintree........yikes !

Using fish knives until I learnt that was for the middle classes only.

Ski holidays.

Although I still think they're a status symbol (for people in the UK, unless you live near Aviemore or Glenshee).

I've never thought kitchen roll was posh. I've always used it.

The Lady magazine ... my dear old mum used to buy it and I remember reading the job section where you could clean a posh house and live in the grounds in a little cottage

@mrssiba hahaha I wear my wedding abaya every eid to get the money worth out of it!

Apologies if these have already been mentioned, I was born in 1961 and grew up in a small village the posh people had indoor toilets, televisions and phones

Another one that thought the Range was posh! I wonder why so many of us think that? The illusion was shattered for me when the local one opened up with an Iceland inside and the grand opening was attended by Barry Scott from the Cillit Bang adverts 😂

Everything I wore as a child was from the market so anyone who got their clothes from shops was posh. ⬅️ Yes

When at school I had begged for a a pair of Adidas,. I thought They were so cool
Cue my mum returned from market with hooky trainers
Addidas with 4 fuckin stripes. Oh the humiliation

To this day I love Adidas have a few pairs and I still bristle with pride when I wear them

[quote PopsicleHustler]@mrssiba hahaha I wear my wedding abaya every eid to get the money worth out of it![/quote]
@PopsicleHustler 🤣 Totally understand

Eid is coming up........🙏🏼

Fox’s classic biscuits
ANY restaurant , even McDonalds.
Clark’s shoes
I lived on hand me downs that had been though three owners before I got my turn, we never ever ate out. Had my first taste of Chinese take away in secondary school at a friends house , never had holidays , never ordered take away. Never ever knew of any time EVER that my mum met a friend for ‘coffee’. Going to the hairdressers was a massive deal ( so much so that only my mum ever got to go and that was only about once a year and we all sat excitedly waiting for her to come home to see what she looked like, as though it was a complete makeover overhaul)
Shopping in Next, River Island, or any place that wasn’t What Everyone Wants.
Lots of things actually now I think about it ...

@Chickenkatsu

Soda stream, I used to think they were the height of sophistication.

Tbh I’ve gone full circle on SodaStreams, just bought one to put a stop to my outrageous Badoit plastic bottle habit, I reckon they’re enviro posh.

Love The Range!

Four Seasons hotel in London. Found it to be very outdated

'Proper' furniture rather than MDF
Silver ornaments in a living room
Black cabs

inshaAllah and Ramadan first :)

Great thread!

Similar to others, the poshest things to me when I was growing up were jacuzzis and conservatories. I aspired to have both and I remember when my parents were getting a new bathroom fitted I begged and begged them to get a jacuzzi.

Also, waterbeds and breakfast bars. Also, like others, all English people. Growing up, an English accent was default for very posh and I couldn't differentiate between the different accents. We had a history teacher at school who was English and I thought he was the poshest person I had ever met. Around 20 years later, I bumped into him by chance and was very disappointed to find he was a proper cockney geezer.

Similarly, my aunt and uncle where always known as "posh Auntie Mary and Uncle Jim in their big house in (suburb of our city)". We couldn't just refer to them by their names. Even Auntie Mary would refer to herself this way and constantly remind other family members that she was so much better than them ("ooh, what does it feel like to have a posh auntie living in (suburb)?", Bet you can't wait to visit my big house again?"). All very Hyacinth Bucket. When I first met my DH, I mentioned that I aspired to live in that suburb and he fell about laughing. Pointed out that although the houses are a good size, the area is effectively a new build/attempt at regeneration estate which is effectively an island in the middle of one of the most run-down areas of the city which has a reputation for crime and being a very dangerous place to live and that's why you can get a big house very cheaply in my auntie's estate.

Anyone who worked in an office was posh. Those with any type of professional job were beyond posh. The mother of one of my schoolfriends was a teacher and her father an engineer. When she came round for tea, my dad put on a Pavarotti cd (it was just after Italia 90 and the cd had come free with the sunday paper) to make her feel at home. We all sat around stiffly and embarrassed, listening to the music and not really knowing what to say. My 11 year old friend and fellow-Kylie fan included.

A lounge for visitors.
That probably still is posh isn't it.

Growing up, my best friends parents had a beautiful house (half a converted rectory - actually they still live there) and I'd never been in a home so gorgeous. They had a proper landing not just a corridor at the top of the stairs, they had sinks in all the bedrooms, and her parents had a four poster bed and an en-suite. They also had a wood panelled dining room (with secret cupboards) and a 'snug' which was kind of their living room. En-suites are pretty standard these days, but I was in awe.
But as I said, the thing that I found the poshest, was the lounge. Only used on Christmas day for present opening, and for guests. Persian rugs and shiny ornaments in glass cases. And at Christmas, the most beautiful tree I'd ever seen.

I thought Robinsons Barley Water was posh when I was a kid … the neighbours all seemed to have it and my mum wouldn't buy it.

Sainsbury's is more posh than tesco...

I once did a "how posh are you" quiz, and one of the questions was "do you shop in M&S or Sainsbury's?"

My immediate response was "well, Sainsbury's, because it's the closest of the four" - before realising that this was a Yes/No question, and the quizmaker thought Sainsbury's was the same as M&S!

I recall a Lady Porter put down when she met Mrs Thatcher. Mrs T both our fathers were grocers. Lady P "yes, except mine owned Tesco". Not sure which was was least posh or at any rate less classy.