to think decent brands are hijacked by chavs?

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As the title says, thinking of the likes of Barbour, Hunter, Toms and going back a few years to Burberry, and all counterfeit! I'm sticking to my Bench and Skechers!

Does anyone over the age of 12 really pick their clothes out on the basis of who else wears that brand?

I have none of those.

I really wanted to be a chav too.

I pick my clothes based on how cheap and whether they have my size. Any semblance of style if purely coincidental.

YABU. And a Knob

hth.

Actually, this reminds me of being in the Pandora shop in the Trafford Centre a few years ago. I was buying a Christmas present for somebody; I have no truck with overpriced beads myself. Anyway, a father and daughter were behind me in the queue, obviously to buy the daughter's Christmas present. They were dressed in a way that might be described as chavvy. The staff were so disdainful towards them, it was horrible. As if Pandora was such a prestigious brand that couldn't possibly be associated with poor people! I walked out. I can't bear this sort of snobbery.

Chav means council housed and violent, i know because a song told me once.

Oh what fun, a wind up thread.

Haha reading the OP I got the impression is was tongue in cheek. No...?

It's not funny though.

No, it's not is it.

It's more foot in mouth tbh.

There's a reason no one's hijacking your Bench and your Skechers, they wouldn't want to be associated with goady fuckers.

Aren't all clothes a copy/similar to a designer version though? Because the original style/design would've been on a cat walk and eventually made by high st and suoermarket brands

Fairly new/ncing OP, meh, twat.

Who is sitting watching everyone get cross.

The masses must not be allowed to wear Burberry or Barbour.

It's THE LAW.

I have no idea what Toms is though.

And Hunter wellies wouldn't cut it round here.

Most wellies round here are Barbour too... because they are actually good wellies.

usual I see your Tesco and raise you (or lower in the ops point of view) primark!

Dunlop are quite good wellies.

And Aquascutum used to do nice rainwear...

I think giving a tiny rats wank about the labels you display makes you a massive twat

On behalf of all scouse girls I'm furious that royalty (Kate) are now sporting Scouse Brows

Seriously OP, stop being silly!

What about a big rat's wank?

And OP chavs wouldn't even be seen dead in bench or sketchers, super dry and converse are all the hype in chavsville at the moment dontcha know

Its always quite handy when someone self defines as a twat so quickly.

Op define chav

I'll tell you all a secret shall I?

Round here the poachers all wore Barbours.

That was because the proper Barbour jacket had a big inside pocket (a "poachers pocket") that was the perfect place to hide a salmon you had guddled/poached out of the local river.

I kid you not.

Anybody read a book called CHAVS: the demonisation of the working class ?

I live in a chavvy area and have many chavvy friends. We are not a different species, just ordinary people who are skint in a way the op perhaps doesn't have the empathy to imagine.

I don't wear branded clothing on principle, and that wouldn't change even if I won the lottery (that I don't enter). But I don't judge anyone who does. If they want to save up for overpriced crap, that's up to them. My own feeling is that anyone who pays for a label is just silly, and that rich people look just as foolish in their branded clothes as poor people.