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?

Three teenage Grandsons and they couldn't be any different if they tried .
Eldest likes music from my era.. The cure/ The Smiths etc.. he dresses in converse.. baggy jeans.. checked shirts or logo t shirts with bands names.. natural beautiful curly hair..
Middle one brand names.. Nike .. expensive trainers ... Hoodie ( white with name). Short hair with floppy side fridge. Youngest (age 15) very very long hair.. loves Chinese Aimè.. grunge long black t shirts .

Where I am, it's the kids from the less 'nicer' parts of the area that dress like that., sometimes with a perm too. Those who dont need to show that they can afford the labels are in zara, h&m

You can get a perm at the barber. Apparently the hair style is called 'meet me at McDonald's' my friends ds who is year 7 now I think got a perm!

I have a 17 year old Foster son who dresses in sports wear most of the time. He does do a BTEC Sports course though so this is what he has to wear to college every day. He wears navy or black training trousers every single day. He has 7 pairs. He has about 12 different sports tops and 3 sports jackets. He refuses to wear Adidas because he supports females only in female sports. He does own 3 different suits which he wears to formal cricket presentation nights and county dinners. He will wear nice leather shoes on these occasions. He also owns 3 shirts and 3 ties. He wears them on formal nights. He has chinos he hardly ever wears. In the summer he wears shorts or more training trousers and trainers.

Sorry he won't wear Nike not Adidas. I mix them up.

This is the sixth form upgrade evolution where I am 😂 (London/Surrey private/grammars)

My nephew (15) used to call my DS (11)'s style 'the clothes that boys who smash up bus shelters wear' but I notice he's now ditched his jeans and brown boots. I think maybe he thinks the ladies prefer the roadman look.
When I was young we called kids who wore tracksuits 'causies' (Scotland) but now it's more than a subset; it's everywhere.

That's really interesting - why is this unsafe? Honestly I'm not being facetious - v different area to me so I can't get my head around this

What rough area?

What's a quarter zip?

What I really want for my dds is just for them to think for themselves. Your ds sounds like he is his own person - I love that

This post really resonated with me. My mother dressed me in cloth kits and other handmade clothes and I hated it. I adored the small amount of 'right' clothes and it boosted my confidence no end.

Quite different from the schoffel gilet, harlequin shorts, mullet and buckler boots/chatham decks that the young farmers wear around here then!

They all find their tribe.

Lastly can I just say I'm trying to picture all these teenage boys in chinos and all I can picture is Young Sheldon and Moss and his friends in The IT Crowd!

Chavs

Decks? Deck shoes? Jeez

Mine doesn't like tracksuits. He lives in jeans, and hoodies that are generally a bit more colourful. Trainers or boots - we're rural. Shorts & Tshirts in summer

On some days, it can be difficult to find clothes that don't make them look like junior drug dealers.

What a brilliant young man x

This is what I mean. When I was a teen it was a subset we called townies which has now morphed to chav but I hate that word. Now it's mainstream and this is the bit I'm confused by.

DS14 wears mainly jeans, sometimes black cargo pants, wears trackies around the house. Plain t-shirts and hoodies, a mixture of colours and darks for both. He doesn't take much of an interest in clothes, but likes having some colour and will choose which ones he wants. He's still saying he really isn't bothered about shopping for himself, so I just stick some things in online baskets, and he'll go through and edit.

The look you describe, OP, is road man look. My DS is the no-logo look and he wears jeans, T shirts that are plain, feature an art work or retro band and hoodies that have no logos. For gym trackies with small or no logo and non branded t shirts.

It is a horrible word but the person who thinks it's only 'chavs' who wear that stuff is wrong. It's everywhere. Yes the bus shelter smashers wear it, but so do many other boys - private schools, state schools. The private schools here in Edinburgh used to worry about boys hair being too long; now all the boys want to be nearly bald.
It's a bit like football being looked down on as being 'schemie' when I was a kid. Now all kids play it.

You are probably aiming this mainly towards uk areas so might not be relevant but I live in Stockholm and here they are all in jeans and then it’s either hoodies and puffer jackets, with a jumper and parkas or they have jeans and more alternative looks like faux fur or ankle long coats with turtlenecks/shirts/knitted jumpers. We don’t do uniforms so the kids aren’t so bothered about looking the same.

Yep. I say everytime I am out and about "Oh there is DS4" and then realise it is not DS4, despite exact same hairstyle and clothing. Don't mind though, if they all want to look the same, then up to them. My only tiny moan is that they are usually in dark clothing and they just step out into the road with headphones in, that grinds my gears a bit. X

It'll probably arrive there. We notice how trends take a few more years to arrive in DH's country. Not saying that's good or bad, just an observation.

Very few in chinos at DCs sixth form - only a particular kind of Oxbridge candidate. So not even all Oxbridge types. Trackies and sportswear not the thing. Gym membership popular but they don’t wear the gym wear outside the gym. DS very strict about coats/jackets especially - I once bought him a perfectly innocuous padded Mountain Warehouse hooded jacket but ‘too road man’