AIBU to think the Cath Kidson 'trend' is turning the brand into

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a chavy trend.....I'm thinking like the Burberry tartan......

Does it matter? Surely you only buy stuff that you like, not because of the label on it. Or am I being dim and a bit naiive?

I hope it's not chavvy

I grant you that's excessive though

I have a rose print CK handbag that was a gift. Get lots of compliments on it (not sure why) and nurse practitioner raves about it everytime I go to GP (I'm tempted to leave it to her in my will)and a couple of weeks ago, a child in JL came up to me to ask me where I had bought it (sent over by her mother). I do like the towels/flannels for kids but very pricey. It is a bit ubiquitous these days so possibly YANBU.

fgs of course it isn't chavvy

whatever chavvy means

how many chavs have you met who wear flowery pinnies

yanbu
The bags are going that way round here.

cath kidston.trend.thats an oxymoon surely
cat lovers and spinsters like ck

two twee and mumsy.like tea cosy prints

Oh help. Just bought the very pink & flowery iPad case. Very cath kidston but very cheery and I won't get it mixed up with DH's iPad. I just like it.

One or two bits can look nice, but too many kitchens now are so full it makes me feel like somebody has projectile vomited over everything.

It's either that or Emma Bridgewater, they're everywhere. I quite like them until I keep seeing them everywhere and then I tend to go off them.

After I've spent loads of bloody money buying bits and bobs.

I don't think chavs can afford ck they can just about afford the fake juicy tracksuit

Races off to buy Orla Kieley duvet cover for the spare bedroom - starting new, non flowery trend.

It is a bit much when your CK bag cost an arm and a leg and you see a 12 year old with the same one as you in the queue at Sainsbos (as happened to me this week). I had to work hard to buy that bag!

Hmm. Cath Kidston was great at the beginning when it looked really different and fresh. But since she sold the brand the quality is crap and the design less innovative and it's all made in China. Emma Bridgewater stuff is all made in the UK - she is a massive supporter of British skills and manufacturing so whatever you think of the designs, it's better than Cath Kidston.

Hate the term 'chavvy'. Take a look at this

If popular equals chavvy then MN must be chav central

I hate the word 'chav' too - (( I'll buy that book btw, looks good ))

In answer to the op - yes, CK has defo become more 'mainstream' - loved her in the beginning but I wouldn't buy one of her bags now - just too common.

I think of it as stuff for little girls. I've bought little purses and so on as gifts for children but I have to say I've never wanted any of it for myself - I find the colours garish and unsophisticated to be honest. Both as accessories for women and for the house.

I don't think of it as chavvy at all - just a bit of a predictable, unstylish, middle-aged and boring band-wagon. Like Crocs.

When I think of CK bags, I think of the sort of badly and unimaginatively dressed woman (beige fleece, combats, no make up and grey hair) but then there is this bag in an infantile print thrown over her shoulder. I think she's saying "don't look at me - look at the bag! - that's who I really want to be - girly and pretty! - not this frump in beige..."

However, I DO like Emma Bridgewater crockery...

Each to their own, I guess.

Ridiculous.. it's just popular that's all! I have a sewing basket and a duvet cover from there.. but I love all that floral stuff.

I think its been chav for about 5 years now

surely

Schtum exactly!

I think it's on its way out... like cupcakes, and 'cupcake' names (Sophie, Emily, Ruby bla bla bla).

Am still projecting my internal trend antennae to work out what comes next though....

Cleaning lady chic possibly (a la Hilda Ogden). Balled up tissues in candlewick dressing gown pockets etc etc.

My MIL has had a Cath Kidston shopping bag for about 6 years. So edgy it is not...

TBH anything looks a bit common when you are head to toe in the prints. So a total Cath Kidston look is as bad as a total Burberry look. But I don't think one item is that bad (and obviously my septuagenarian MIL agrees!)

Not sure if CK is "chav". It sure is twee, though. Women wanting to wear flowery pinnies and make cupcakes and the like... must be some thing to do with post-feminism

I live in Dulwich by the way! It is, erm, a bit LOVELY and ORGANIC. Not sure I would describe East Dulwich as 'edgy' either! Forest Hill is where it's at. I'm pregnant at the moment, so swapping my 2 bed in Dulwich for a bigger house and garden there. They won't have Cath Kidston, surely?

passmethe bucket

"cupcake names"