in wondering why so many mnetters are like sheep buying that shitey boden over priced crap?

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is it so they can spot each other and feel like they are in some middle class club?

I never wear anything with a label on the outside.

Pull ons are might tome nappies aren't they?

Sheep wear Boden?? I thought they were natural wools!

Can't even ducking trust sheep now.

Don't like Boden, have nothing by them.

I do have TWO MN scarves though and did the MN haircut once. It was ok but only as a one off.

Their children's T shirts are really good value. Not crap at all, IMO.

thephantom

I found some of those girls toweling shorts in the thrift shop near me. They were Dd's size so I got them, washed them, looked like new. Dh took one look and said "hell no her butt cheeks will be showing" so I sold them on eBay and made enough to pay for the shorts and all the summer clothes I'd found for myself that day. So thank you all the eBaying Boden addicts

Well bought pieces

Pieces?? Pieces.... Of what? Do you mean you buy clothes from them?

I like it 'cos I can't be arsed to go actual shopping

I have loads of Boden jersey dresses - it's discrete, cheap at the end of the sale, washes well and smart enough for work without me looking like a trollop.

Some of it doesn't wash well but just occasionally you will hit on something that lasts.

I have shops opposite me - still don't go shopping as I hate it. Boden woman delivers and I really rarely send anything back.

How are we seeing what other mnetters are wearing? Is there some app I don't know about. I don't do Boden myself, I'm currently wearing this season's best deals from RedEx don't you know.

YABU OP, who gives a flying 4x what other people choose to wear?

I am Boden dress woman at work
I am rarely out of PJ bottoms (primark) at home

Katherine Kavenagh

I think that's what fashionistas call bits of clothing. Like we would call 'a top'. I

Oh shite, just ordered a boyfriend cardi in the Boden sale, and a shirt for Ds for £10
Oh well middle class then what ever that is, same as middle aged probably!

Boden scares me. It makes toddler clothes for grown women.

I buy in the sale, it's cheapish and lasts very well. I don't go for the "ditsy" stuff but the linens and classic stuff. One linen shirt survived being washed in street laundries for weeks in Asia when we were travelling and it still looks like new.

Well, having never even looked at Boden, my curiosity has got the better of me after reading this thread and now I am going to have to buy DD some dresses for our holiday. Especially annoying as some of the ones I like come in several colours and even in the sale aren't that cheap....

Oh but it's "SUCH FUN"!

Personally I wonder why so many people are like sheep buying cheap shit from Primark without ever considering who might be making the stuff so they can sell it at those prices, but it would be really rude to be so judgemental out loud!

I thought MN and Boden was a bit of an in joke?

My mother on the other hand thinks that, for kids, it is "the only" clothing company, and is ever so proud of herself when she sends the children a T-shirt each or a dress DH cringes when dd wears each time she gets a catalogue. I think her frequent follow up calls (not becasue she doesn't know if we received them, these are after being called and thanked) to check whether the children are enjoying wearing their T shirts, has made me anti Boden, and more of a fan of the as-new, or still with labels attached piles of clothing MIL buys at the nearly new sales she loves, and presents to the children by the carrier bag full for less money - rather more practical when they get through 3 outfits a day a lot of days! My mum is very self consciously proud of being middle class, first generation to go to university from very working class origins etc. she name drops the elderly titled lady who lives down the road from her in conversation, she just cannot help herself with Boden...

But I am middle class, 38 and possibly a little frumpy. Not quite ready for "farmer's wife" at the Edinburgh woolen mill yet.

Don't buy their weird prints, but I probably wouldn't wear curtains no matter which social class I fell in to. Unless my family were on the run from nazis of course.

OP, why do you care?

And for what it's worth I was wearing a Boden dress last week (bought in the sale though, do I still qualify as sheep?) and got wolf whistles from the builders down the road. So it can't be that frumpy surely?

(disclaimer: I am not normally in favour of wolf whistles, but any boost to my post-pregnancy ego is welcome these days :o )

FWIW, I think £15 in the sale for a really nice party dress that my 4yo DD will wear at least 6 times next summer and which I can then flog on eBay for at least a tenner is ok. Cheaper than Monsoon, but less chance of her cousins wearing the same stuff!

OP, I reckon a lot of MNers would think you wear shite too but rightly think it's none of their business where you buy your clothes.

I'm not a fan of Boden because they're not usually the kind of clothes that I like.

I don't wear anything that has a label on the front, back etc to say where it's from, purely because I think it makes me look like a twat.

Having said that, I don't give a shiny shite where anyone else buys their clothes from.