To hate red trousers on men?

[abacucat]

This seems to be a status marker meaning I am very posh, so it doesn't matter if I look like a total nob.

I love a pair of red trousers. I wear red trousers myself. In fact, I was so sorry when my red trousers got a hole that I turned them into a pair of red shorts over Christmas. Come summer they will be gracing my form.

Red, yellow, mustard, ochre - bring it on! Black is fucking horrible, the colour of darkness, depression, fear and death.

Live life in colour.

Paloma - really?? That is the only classism you can see? Okay crack on then.

And no I do not have any chip on my shoulder. I am totally against the massive inequality in this country. So yes I think it is totally wrong that some people are struggling to eat while others have massive amounts of money.

So you do have a chip on your shoulder

You clearly have a huge chip on your shoulder

Inclined to agree.

I love cords, they cosy and look smart and a bit different. Was thinking of getting some for work. Used to wear the giant flared cords in all different colours back in my grunger days they were hell when it rained.

So caring about massive inequality is having a chip on your shoulder? Way to totally dismiss the actual reality of the country we live in and the impact that has on people.

But thats not what you said in your op. Now you are just twisting this so you dont look like the knob you've showed yourself to be.

abacu - well why don’t you copy / paste some of these “classist” remarks then, so so can see what you’re talking about. As far as I can see, the only person who has even mentioned “class” is you.

You do realise there is a difference between someone disagreeing with you and someone being classist?

They are awful!

kaytee87

Why do certain people wear tracksuits and pyjamas out and about? Is that a deliberate status marker too?

A very good point.

My OH has a pair of red trousers. Not cords, however.

So caring about massive inequality is having a chip on your shoulder? Way to totally dismiss the actual reality of the country we live in and the impact that has on people

Your thread had nothing to do with "caring about massive inequality". What a hypocrite you are.

DP refers to any colour of this type as "baby shit"

That's what I call my cashmere jumper @LakieLady. It's that exact shade of yellowy liquid baby shit that escapes from the nappy and goes all the way up the back and into the hair on the back of the head.

I bought it in September when I was tanned from holiday and the new season's clothes came in. It looked really good. But by the time it got cold enough to wear I was pasty white again. It makes me look ill. It was an expensive mistake.

The red trousers thing is all part and parcel of the shitty class system in the UK. It marks someone out as middle-class and therefore someone who deserves power and money. The colour of trousers someone wears isn’t the biggest issue in the world but when you put thousands of these class rules together they work well at keeping some people in the club and other people out of the club. It’s worked fantastically well for the British middle-classes for a very long time.

So caring about massive inequality is having a chip on your shoulder? Way to totally dismiss the actual reality of the country we live in and the impact that has on people

If only you had started a thread to discuss that then.

So yes I think it is totally wrong that some people are struggling to eat while others have massive amounts of money.

I agree. But “status markers” aren’t the reason for inequality in our society.

Lack of opportunities, poor education, breakdown of family structure etc etc It’s a very complex problem.

Being rude about red trousers or angry at the people who wear them is going to make any difference to that whatsoever,

Dahlietta

What's so posh about East Sussex? confused

I was wondering about that too!!

Hang on- if people are bothered about red trousers being a status marker, then let’s all wear them and take that power away from the garment.

We could start a campaign called ‘The Taming of the Trews.’

Anyway, I should have known a 10-page thread would have moved on.

I live in a red/mustard/yellow cord trouser hotspot. I don't hate these men but thankfully it's not a look my husband favours. He manages to tread the not particularly narrow path that separates ridiculous trousers at either end of the social spectrum.

I know for my local pub if a guy entered the pub wearing red trousers he'd be laughed out the building

Where have you been in East Sussex? If you are talking about Hastings I agree with you. If you are talking about areas like Mayfield and Five Ashes the wealth and privilege are obvious.

Couldn’t find any of those offensive classist posts then OP?

Is there anywhere that doesn’t have massive inequality?

I’m half hoping someone will predictably say Scandifinwayden as all the men I know from those lands joyously embrace colourful leg wear

Nobody would give a fig where I live lynnepot, and it’s not a ‘posh’ area.

The red trousers thing is all part and parcel of the shitty class system in the UK. It marks someone out as middle-class and therefore someone who deserves power and money

Oh good grief. You have an even larger chip than the OP.