Chavs taking over fashion

[katvond]

Now I love my clothes, used to like Burberry then the chavs decided to embrace it, same with Louis vuitton, now the bastards are wearing north face, isn't anything sacred?

I have a few Peter Storm and North Face fast drying outwear type tops. They were bought for me as presents. I've never thought of them in any other way than practical. You wash them & they dry fast, which is useful if you're in a flat with limited space.

Oh no do I need to tell my in laws who own a massive house and a yacht and are very out doors kind of people that they are chavs for wearing north face stuff.

Real out doors types do ware it as it is warm comfortable and (IMO) not over priced at all

I have turned this around by stealing chav style instead.

and theres nothing up with burberry macs.

MN can be so ball-achingly right-on sometimes.

Chav is something that you opt to be. It's not like being black or disabled or gay or any other minority that you don't get a choice in being. It's a sub-culture. You choose to be a goth? You get called a goth (and I did, from 1994-1997 ), you choose to be a punk, you get called a punk. Choose to be a chav, you get called a chav. It's nothing to do with income either. The country's most famous chav Katie Price is bloody minted.

Anyway, back to the OP; Burberry is only obvious Burberry if it's that fucking awful Burberry check, which you would be VU to wear, chav fashion or not. I've got a Chanel bag. It's only clear that it's Chanel if you deign to look at the zip pulls/lining, clasp. In-your-face designer is rank, chav or not.

I love the self-righteousness on this thread, it's almost as good as on the prostitution ones. Well done OP.

BTW, the solution to the OP's problem is couture. The whole point of couture is to be unavailable to the masses (hoi polloi, chavs, mumsnetters, what have you).

I am working class and wear a north face jacket occasionally. I am not a chav it is a certain way of dressing. Personal style is about so much more than how much money you have and what labels you were. Case in point princess Beatrice and Eugenie and a lot of other people at that wedding ! Chav is possibly working class people with not much personal style just follow the crowd. Rich people make the same mistakes wearing ridiculous ugly designer clothes that do not suit them !

wear sorry need to check before posting !

im with honeybehappy on this one

The issue I have with most sportswear brands is they don't produce much you could actually wear to play sport in or with...in a "sports shop" I often have to search for one wearable pair of running shorts or tights and end up online or at a specialist running shop instead. "Sports shops" are mostly now just purveyors of overpriced casual clothing.

BTW, just as a footnote I think Burberry have done rather well financially out of their chavdom.

Can't believe people are getting het up over the use of the word 'chav'. it's something you choose to be, and not a very nice choice either, so what's the problem? It's not like being racist or homophobic.

And the origin of the word is unimportant, meanings change over time and we all know what 'chav' means now. But few of us are aware of its disputed origins. It now means someone lacking in manners, brash, cocky, probably poorly educated, arrogant etc. Can't see why you'd worry about people who have chosen to adopt that sort of persona.

Spongefinge

IF I WHERE IN YOUR SHOES I'D WHISPER BEFORE I'D SHOUT!

'few of us are aware' not very educated are thee

'lacking in manners' you mean people like you who call others rude names

'arrogant' well you not exactly shy and retiring are ya

'why worry about people who' bit brash there lovey

Don't worry I wouldn't class you as a Chav

More like wanbee what you wanbee I don't know are you aiming for smug yummy mummy middle class shan. Well good luck honey your well on your way

bessimo, chavs can't punctuate either. I can't actually work out what you're trying to say but hell yes, I'd rather be a smug yummy mummy any day!

And btw I did know the origin of the word - it would have been patronising to say 'some people don't know the origin of the word'

Can't believe people are getting het up over the use of the word 'chav'. it's something you choose to be, and not a very nice choice either,

I have only come across one person who defined themselves as a chav and that was the man who won millions on the lottery and blew it all. I think he was called Michael Carroll.

Mostly it is more that someone looks at another person's clothes, jewellery and hairstyle and goes "That person looks like a chav" and makes judgements about them based on that.

But if you didn't want people to think you were a chav could you not just wear different clothes, hairstyles etc?

Sorry but this thread is exactly the kind of thing that makes people mock mumsnet for being stereotypical twitchy lefty middle aged Boden clad fusspots.
It will give many a good laugh.

Barbour Jackets have been highjacked too.
Thank goodness I have not worn one since 1994.

I've not heard the word ned used to define a cultural group before. My jack russell terrier is called ned and I wouldn't want to inadvertently insult anyone by calling his name out loud in the park (as in "Oi, come here Ned").

"the wee man" is a celebrity ned. If you google him you will get a good idea of what the stereotypical ned is like.

The classic horrible brown and gold Louis Vuitton bag has always been the bag of those with money and want to show they have money

nothing new there :o

This is an interesting article:

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/31/chav-vile-word-fractured-britain

Why do you care who wears what? Really, this baffles me.

chavs aren't people

ned really isn't an acronym. It's an urban myth that it came from 'non-educated delinquent' (sometimes called a 'backronym', because they invented the idea long after the word had come into popular use).

Just like 'chav', 'ned' essentially a class-based insult.