To advise H to dress more like the locals

[SarahFx]

When on the school run?

Someone I went to school with posted on Facebook saying they'd seen a man wearing uggs. Cue loads of replies saying kind things like he should have beaten him to death or smashed him in the face.

I commented that it was my H he had seen and at least he doesn't dress like a fat nineties throwback which was a bit unkind but I was mad.

The original poster then backtracked saying it couldn't be my H as the person had longish blond hair when my H has shaved hair. This is crap as he posted at school run time and H recognises him from the yard.

I told my H about it and he says he will be wearing a sarong next week when he sees him and perhaps some mascara.

We live in a smallish mining type town when any form of men's fashion is frowned up whereas H is from a city.

Arf. This is one of the best thread titles in ages.

I think you should advise him to dress up like Les Dawson and Roy Barraclough as Cissie and Ada That sounds like it would go down quite well

What they posted on facebook is the sort of thing posted on here and other places all the time. It's just this time the object of their derision saw it.

I'm sure they'll get used to him and his metrosexual ways eventually.

I used to live in an ex mining town in the NE.

Lovely, lovely people, but quite a lot of them are stuck in the 1970s I think. Not all - there were some lovely forward thinking people too.

Very friendly though

In Hackney he would get his head kicked in

Sounds charming.

What plebs! How on Earth had it escaped them that Uggs are the height of fashion?

My daughter's gym coach wears something like these

www.vibramfivefingers.com/products/Five-Fingers-KMD-Sport-Mens.htm?activity=fitness

I can barely look at his feet. There's something so weird about them.

It's just our North Eastern ways to be shocked when anyone wears anything slightly too 'trendy' but it's perfectly reasonable to walk around and do shopping in pyjamas! I know a few men (who live in Yorkshire) who wear uggs and it's really not a big deal in their city

He needs to dress like Andy Capp - with cloth cap and, might I suggest - slippers, of the brown tweedy sort. He'll look deeply fashionable but with authentic references.

WifeofGu where I live, in the south East, it is common place to see people wearing those. Mostly they are running though.

OH's family are from the North East and while they are generally good people they just do not understand why my DS has shoulder length hair...all boys must have shaved heads it seems and they go on and on and on about it...like they have never seen anyth.ing like it at all.

DS has even noticed all the constant comments now

I think it all sounds juvenile.the poster and you're how very dare you response

Uggs are not metrosexual They are not warm either - soles too thin.
And sarongs are a lot bit last decade.

Sounds like he needs to do some shopping for actual current clothing. And maybe grow his hair. Then he can incite some proper excitement at the school gate

Me & DH are both from the North East - we ran away

still love to visit though & still love the people - but there is only so much you can take

I still remember the day I took 4 friends up to my DBs birthday party, there was meant to be a bigger mixed gang of us, but ended up just me & 4 male friends - conversation soon turned to which of the guys was my DP - none where - (he was at home working) - after insisting that I must be shagging one of them & everyone insisting we were all old friends & nothing more we got ...

"There's a lot of them queers down South isn't their pet" - whilst slapping my gay black friend on the back & shouting "eee, but we nah your lot aren't ever queer, yer all hung like horses" - we all nearly choked on our beer, especially as he was the only gay friend with us & he giggled over it & too the pee for years as he thought it hilarious

They all understood why we live down South after that though

Oh god Rockin'. Am weeping laughing...

Daykin how do you cope? Those split toe things look like devil hooves!

Uggs on a man? In Hackney he would get his head kicked in.

And do you think that is acceptable. Violence towards someone based on their choice of clothing?

Really?

I'd have thought men's uggs would be the very thing in hackney, the borough the word hipster was invented for

Rockin thank goodness your friend has a sense of humour! You have to laugh at someone that ignorant or you'd cry.

I must say I live in the south, only about an hour and a bit from London, in a small village. There are people here with exactly the same ideas! It's usually people who have lived here all there lives. I do try my best to educate them

But uggs are not hip. They also make people shuffle.

I don't understand how more people don't fall over wearing Yggdrasil! They're so bulky! My Mum bought me a pair when I was pregnant and I fell down my front stairs wearing them! Maybe i don't have the coordination

Yggdrasil? I meant Uggs. Autocorrect fail.

I have uggs. The solid Kensington ones, not the floppy kind.

They are without doubt the most comfortable, warm, snugly shoes I've ever worn..