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

[Jazzicatz]

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????????

[Janos]

Boden

Aspirational middle class, I'd say.

[Janos]

It is very M&S like.

But M&S is a lot cheaper, I think. Hence where the assirational 'look what I can afford' thing comes from.

I still think M&S is posh though!

[Janos]

Gah, I mean of course aspirational!!

[clockwork]

I would wear boden if they made clothes for stumpy leged people but they don't. (I do have some of the teenagers stuff for me ) My dcs have quite a lot because they are nice and practical and non slutty and the boys t shirts don't have offensive slogans. They sell loads of trousers without buttons so are great fot toddlers. I've never been to cormwall, have a tiny car and I don't bray. I don't have a lab either.

[MargaretMountford]

YANBU - I wear Boden and I'm fab

[MargaretMountford]

am sick of Boden knockers too - it's boring

[cory]

Xenia on Wed 16-May-07 16:46:04
"I'd rather mumsnetters wrote about how they could set up clothing companies like the Boden one rather than how frilly dresses look."

Ah but unless someone was prepared to enthuse about the dresses, wouldn't it be a bit pointless to set up a clothing company?

You keep forgetting that for there to be icing on the cake, there needs to be some sort of cake underneath. For there to be company directors, you need both workers and customers.

[Gobbledigook]

I'm wearing a Boden top now. Shall I just get a gun and be done with it?

[Gobbledigook]

'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!'

Does it?

Tough shit.

[lucyellensmum]

Is Boden wearing the same sort of thing as Burrberry wearing in chavs, but just for yummy mummies and Times readers? ive never ever set eyes on Boden actually, so i wouldnt know what it is if it jumped up and bit me - but i imagine it to be a bit twin set and pearls?

[backfire]

Well I'm a bitch from hell as today I'm wearing a New Big Button shirt bought in the sale from the spring catalogue. Dd has just gone through the summer mini boden catalogue choosing things she'd like (don't worry she won't get all of them). About half ds3's wardrobe is mini boden sale stuff.

We have a 4x4 (Volvo), 4 dcs, but no nanny/beach hut/labrador.

[lucyellensmum]

oh ive just looked at the kids catalogue online -

[scampadoodle]

Xenia, I have absolutely no desire to set up a clothing company, sorry. Not everyone is gagging to Be In Business a l'Apprentice you know! (I speak as a SAHM/erstwhile-designer-for-freelance-hire).

I quite like Boden; the prints are nice and they are the only place you can get knee-length A-line skirts. They are a tad overpriced though, & I do agree with the Boden Brayers thing! Am not one myself though - not posh enough & DH doesn't wear pink trousers with yellow socks.

[Janos]

Farkin hell...Boden wearers with an attitude!!

And I thought you were all such gentle souls

[lucyellensmum]

Blu - i live in a Boden hotspot - i do now remember boden brayer spotting at the local cafe whilst they wait for their little olivias and harveys to file out of their saturday morning french class. Only one thing to say really (baa, baa, baa!!!)

[tiredemma]

I remember starting a thread last year asking what Padstow was like.

" full of Boden wearers....." came the reply.

I suppose it was, It was not at all like the holidays that I used to have in Rhyl.

[VacheFolle]

I don't see how 'Boden' can be aimed at yummy mummies (i.e young looking,slim,glamorous,you couldn't tell they'd had kids)as they seem to want to dress you as middle aged provincial tories .

The kids' stuff is ok though

[scottishmummy]

never heard of boden.or seen their clothes.so whats the big deal that they annoy folk?