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to think that Boden wearers are not horrible people??????

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Jazzicatz · 15/05/2007 15:35

I am fed up with being made to feel like I am a real cow because I buy clothes from Boden, it isn't as if I am stealing the food from a child is it????????

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DANCESwithnewlytannedlegs · 15/05/2007 15:37

I'm wearing a boden top at the moment and I'm blardy marvellous

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Jazzicatz · 15/05/2007 15:37

So am I????

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Budababe · 15/05/2007 15:38

I'd buy more if it fitted me! (Nothing too overtly Boden but some of their basics are nice.

Like the children's clothes - esp PJs.

rowan1971 · 15/05/2007 15:38

I don't think Boden wearers are horrible people, I'm just envious because I think the kids' clothes are lovely and I can't afford to buy them.

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Jazzicatz · 15/05/2007 15:39

It isn't about the clothes though is it? otherwise it wouldn't initiate such abuse.

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DANCESwithnewlytannedlegs · 15/05/2007 15:39

No I really am! Wasn't being sarcastic and although mostly boden p*sses me off because I get the catalogue, get all excited and then nothing fits I still consider myself a thoroughly good egg

rowan1971 · 15/05/2007 15:40

No, it's that wearing Boden is likely to go along with being white, affluent and middle class, and this is a combination that winds a lot of people up!

Kathyis6incheshigh · 15/05/2007 15:42

Johnnie Boden thinks women should stay at home and not go out to work. But I still wear the clothes.
(Because it takes simply ages when I try to investigate everyone who makes my clothes to make sure they are properly feminist.)

QueenofBleach · 15/05/2007 15:53

I don't know my DD is being foul at the moment.

SoMuchToBits · 15/05/2007 15:56

I am obviously very horrible then - and so is my ds because we both wear Boden clothes . Dh, however is only slightly horrible, as he only owns two items of Boden clothing, both of which were bought by me!

babygrand · 15/05/2007 15:57

Actually, now that you come to mention it, most of the people I dislike around here (in RL I mean!) do wear Boden. Interesting...

SoMuchToBits · 15/05/2007 15:59

Oh no! - I hope you don't live near me,babygrand!

cornsilk · 15/05/2007 16:05

I have always thought that the description of the clothes in the catalogue are a little bit smug. Bought some for ds recently as has a discount code but have not been convinced that they're any better than gap for kids.

Blu · 15/05/2007 16:08

From my detailed studies in the field - the North Norfolk Coast - I would say that Boden wearing is one characteristic among many others of a sub-group of white affluent middle class called the Boden Brayers. However simply wearing Boden does not automatically qualify you as a member of this group. You also need to drive a huge pristine Range Rover which you park across a narrow village street while you unload the 3 weeks-worth of waitrose shopping, the four children and the nanny. You then perform an elaborate production of 'what a happy healthy family does in Norfolk', projecting well for those at the back, or indeed in the next village. The plot is action packed with elaborate beach barbecues (especially on NT ecologically sensitive sand spits where they are banned - but having arrived in your aythentic crab fishing boat, you will have failed to see the notices aimed at mere day trippers on the ferry), trips to the fishmongers and deli in the local town where you loudly discuss the provenance of every clove of garlic and can of cannelinni beans, and gin and tonics while pretending to be a local in the pub. Props include a set of wooden beach quoits, some Kath Kidston beach chairs, and a £140k beach hut. At no time will you ever take into account that you may be blocking any road, deafening any nearby people or causing an entire queue of local rurally deprived shoppers to miss their once-a-day coastal bus service bus home.
But you will look v nice on your hotchpotch T shirt and bright cheery mocasin style shoes.

dinosaur · 15/05/2007 16:09

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bossykate · 15/05/2007 16:10

white, affluent and middle class

is that a combo that winds you up rowan?

bossykate · 15/05/2007 16:12

blu that is hilarious! v well observed

i think we just missed being in that tribe last year - by a 4x4, nanny, a couple of kids, and the braying and a few other things, so actually we missed it by a mile! thank goodness!

Blu · 15/05/2007 16:13

Yes, Dino - we love ytou.

I have a few Boden things - as does DS. Thankfully DP does not wear those awful cheked drawstring trousers.

dinosaur · 15/05/2007 16:14

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Blu · 15/05/2007 16:14

And what about your £140k beach hut, BK?

I would like to confirm that I have actually been on a hol with BK (where we desported ourselves in a french deli), and that no member of her family has ever been known to bray!

bossykate · 15/05/2007 16:14

i have a few boden things, dd and ds have a few and dh has three shirts - which are gorgeous btw very conservative but quality is excellent.

Blu · 15/05/2007 16:15

Dino - be afraid, be very afriad - Boden make some baggy checked trousers fro men...i'll see if i can find them.

SoMuchToBits · 15/05/2007 16:15

Oh, thank goodness for that - I don't drive anything, let alone a 4x4. Maybe I'm not horrible after all...

bossykate · 15/05/2007 16:15

vraiment nous nous disportons!

dinosaur · 15/05/2007 16:15

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