to not get my friends' obsession with Cath Kidston?

[Tangointhenight]

Everywhere I look, bags, purses, soap, lipbalm, wall paper, curtains, table cloths and the list goes on, its like a frenzy in my group of friends ATM, what is it that is supposedly so nice?? To me most of it is a bit dated looking.

AIBU to think its a bit naff?

It's just twee I think.

Ooh my mum is a massive fan! Took me 3 months to find the bag she wanted in stock! I like very few of the bits but I wouldn't go all out.

Yes twee its a great word for it!

It is twee, and samey, and bloody everywhere - but at the same time I can't help but like it.

The only thing holding me back from a CK bag is that I could never put it down anywhere - there are so many of the things around I'd pick up the wrong one.

It's unimaginative shite.

YANBU. I can't believe it either. It's like the 1970s and bloody Laura Ashley all over again.

i don't care much either way.
if people like it that's up to them.

Toughasoldboots my twelve year old niece loves it and I couldn't understand it, I didn't realise it was popular with teenagers. I thought it was because my SIL loves it.

Never heard ot it!

of it! Gonna have to google now :)

Oh! It's vile. And the torch - whats that all about, who would want a flowery torch!

Around here its really popular with some of the 12-14 year old girls.

In fact 12 yo DD wanted a CK bag (biggish one) for school....£50+ for a school bag..... hahahahaha!

I think after you have children you go through a "twee" stage. You step off the corporate treadmill, even if only for the length of your maternity leave and your thoughts turn to cupcakes and homemaking.

A few years later (looks around chintzy Laura Ashley duck egg blue interiors) you wonder what the hell you have done and dream of minimalism and clean lines.

No idea why teenagers like it. Perhaps that's how they rebel these days.

It's so friggin bland, and yes there's a big 'keeping up with the Jones's' about it!

my friend nearly had a canary when they opened a shop here

My dds friend has a Cath Kidston bag for school - she's 8! madness. Dd doesn't 'get' it - she's happy with her sports direct rucksack!

I live in a very shabby victorian house which needs major redecoration. Our house is quite CK esq - but on the cheap. I think it looks pretty and fresh and in keeping with the general shabbiness of the property. Hope visitors aren't secretly dying inside

Some people like it, some don't. What's to 'get'?

I love shabby chic, I just hate everything looking the same, why can't people be a bit more original? My two friends have identical bathrooms courtesy of Cath!!!!

It's all a matter of taste I suppose. Somebody I knew went to view a house and she was disgusted it was totally Laura Ashley throughout and would certainly have to redecorate as she couldn't possibly live in it like that!! . Now I quite like the Laura Ashley look, though I don't have it myself.

Gwendoline it seems everyone likes it in my circle of friends, just wanted reassurance that I wasn't the only person that thinks it's naff!

Big with teenagers here too. Saw a group of young teen girls in track suits and trainers, each with Cath Kidston bags on the crook of their arm!

I think that it is not, by definition, naff

Some of the prints are really good

And in some situations (tablecloth, duvet cover) and here's the key - used in moderation - they look great. I quite like my CK ironing board cover, it's cheery.

No-one should really wear any of them though or have them about your person.

I loved Laura Ashley in the 1970s and 80s. I don't like it now as it looks like every other clothes shop. I rather like CK, but in moderation.