Do all teenage boys dress the same in your area

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Firstly this is not a personal dig at any child. I only have dds. Also there's nothing fundamentally wrong with the clothes I describe as in they are neither offensive nor inappropriate.

I live in the south west in a city. All the teenage boys I see out and about dress the same. They wear matching tracksuits mainly in only black, navy, dark grey or v occasionally sort of beige. They wear black puffa coats usually north face. They wear air force ones mostly or v similar looking trainers.

I haven't seen a teenage boy deviate from this in a few years now. No jeans, no colours unless it's a football strip, no dms or even converse.

They all have v similar haircuts too shirt on the sides and longer on the top with a kind of side floppy fringe.

There are some themes with the girls - baggy 90's clothes but it's nothing like as uniform as the boys.

I know fitting in with trends is a teen thing - I was one but can't help feeling the 2020's is more conformist than ever.

A friends ds who is about 17 told us he occasionally wears a t shirt to school with anime stuff he likes on it. He is told by his peers this is really 'out there' for style. He feels weird about it.

My nephews came down from the midlands at half term. They are also dressed like this. They are year 6,8 and 12.

Is this a down here thing or is rest of uk like this?

Absolutely. Salford, so full of mini roadmen. It’s depressing as it looks so rough and awful. No individuality, all dressed in the same drug dealer outfit.

Yes you’ve just described my 14year old DS and we live in Manchester.His trainers are JOrdans , he loves his joggers but also wears Cargo pants and baggy jeans (over priced Urban Outfitters ones).

100% this for my teen boy. South Manchester. 2 teen daughters much more individualist.

I expect he'll come out the other side

Black, white and grey Nike mainly here in SE London I've noticed.

I have a ds 15...this is mainly what he wears. He doesn't even own a pair of jeans!

Well I'm going to have to go against the grain and say not all of them no.
I mean I know the look and their are some but I'd say not as many as others are seeing.
My ds (14) today wore beige chinos and a maroon hoodie. He friend who's here is wearing blue jeans and a dark blue tshit.
His group mostly seem to live in chinos or cargo pants. The bubble coats are popular though and ds has a pair of £150+ Jordan trainers which I don't love.

I have teen boy offspring.
No puffa jackets, one wears a lightweight jacket that his gf gave him, other wears hoodies. Used to wear a fleece. Actually, if the temp is above 12 degC they are possibly in shorts.

They don't own any "matching tracksuits". They do like jogger bottoms. One wears thin fabric jeans.

No DMs... I never saw the appeal, either. Fairly sturdy trainer/hiking shoes instead. White trainers don't last well on 6am paper rounds in the rain.

I call the the Nike-a-likes, round here they are all carbon copies of each other

DS usually only wears black, but of the DM's biker jacket variety and had long hair

My DS3 (19) never really followed that trend, and he did get stick for it, mainly being called gay for wearing anything involving colour, which is a bit sad.
He's now studying fashion design at art school! ( And is straight as far as I know). Boys are outnumbered about 10 to 1 by girls on the course ...
Basically it seems to take a certain amount of daring and stubbornness to look different, a shame
The flip side is, the matching outfits are very low effort and easy to wash and dry!

Oh it’s a dreadful style.

My 13 year old has beautiful curls and I took him to my hairdressers . I did not want him going to some barbers who would absolutely butcher his beautiful hair off and he end up with one of these hideous haircuts.

Same with tracksuits and colours of clothes. My boys like navy but they also wear bright colours, although not black or grey.

My ds does not dress like this, though lots of his year group do. Ds and his two best mates prefer wide baggy jeans, big baggy joggers, urban outfitters t shirts and hoodies, hollister hoodies, Jack & Jones t shirts. Lots of big prints and patterns on them. And ds loves Asics tennis trainers.

My kids say that boys who dress like that are 'road men' but I have no actual idea what that means.

It’s the cross body man bags I can’t stand that go with the ensemble..

We’re SW. our teen DS and friends wear baggy chinos and hoodies or jumpers.

My child and friends don't dress like that, no. It's a certain type who do.

I have 2 teenage boys neither dress this way. In fact the only track suit bottoms they own are in PE kits.
They tend to wear jeans and either long sleeved or short sleeved t-shirts.
My son's fit in with all the other boys from what I see.
We are in an affluent southern city. You can't tell the public school boys from the locals when not in uniform.

Kids were still being called gay as an insult? DS is only a couple of years younger, many in his circle are gay and it doesn't seem like anyone cares.

DS was in a lilac t-shirt and purple hoodie today.

Yes

Standard. Changes a bit if they go to sixth form or uni as they seem to get more self confident by then to vary from the script.

Why would you force your teenagers to standout if they don't want to though? Being a teenage boy isn't easy and I'm happy for them to wear trackie bots and Nike trainers from 12-16 if it helps them fit in and feel confident while dealing with hormones, acne, social media etc. In fact, as an ex teenage goth, which was not a happy place to be believe me, I encourage it.

Well, yes. My 17 year old is always in a Nike tech / Boss / Armani tracksuit in either black or pale grey. Air force 1s or Jordan's. His hair is longer on top and floppy. His coat is North Face or Boss

I'm quite sure he was constructed in the AI teen lab

It's funny those saying above about a 'certain type'

Where I am it is exactly 'wannabe roadmen' they are from the private school or grammar with high income and good outcomes.

Also in the SW.

two styles here - the road man as described above, or the agri-lad. These are in shorts (hexbys etc), polo shirt, schoffel (or knock off). Hair is a kind of restrained mullet.

My 13 year old doesn’t really care what he wears as long as he is comfortable, so mainly shorts and a t shirt.

My 15 year old buys a lot from second hand sites but mainly wears straight cut jeans (we got him black Levis for Christmas) and t shirts/polo shirts. He also just bought a rather ugly pair of green DMs and his school shoes are Vans.

None of his friends dress as you describe but I do see it in the town. He has also taken to giving himself a buzz cut so is very far removed from long hair permed look.

Live in the SE in a largish town.

Same round here.

Do enlighten us on this "type"