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.

Lidl is rammed with red trouser wearers too.

They are stupid though Maurguerita.

I love this set of pictures taken by Harrodsburg Dougie Wallace about seven years ago.

There is no intrinsic judgment there from Wallace. They are just a set of pictures of every day scenes in Knightsbridge.

If you live near the area, as I do, is it wrong to mock these people? Is my mockery, as someone formerly from an Essex council estate, any worse than my upper middle class neighbours in red trousers who are green with envy at their riches?

Where do we stand in the table of inverted snobbery?

Bowchicawowow

They are stupid though Maurguerita

No they are not stupid. They do exactly what trousers are meant to do. They serve their purpose.

A "stupid" piece of clothing might be jeans and high heels to go hill walking ( jeans because they are not good where lightweight, water proof clothing with good insulating features is needed and heels, well obviously)

The fact you don't like them doesn't make them stupid. Are you always so arrogant?

If you live near the area, as I do, is it wrong to mock these people? Is my mockery, as someone formerly from an Essex council estate, any worse than my upper middle class neighbours in red trousers who are green with envy at their riches?

Why do you feel the need to mock? You are coming across as petty and obsessed.

No, I don't think I am MargueritaPink Can you point to where I am?

These people exist in a three-mile radius of my neighbourhood. We all have to rub along together.

Those Harrodsburg pictures are quite funny, aren't they? Or do you think they are normal?

And the red trousers people get far more angry about it than us. We just take their money. The red trousers people can't and that's probably what make them so angry.

Those Harrodsburg pictures are quite funny, aren't they? Or do you think they are normal?

Funny? Not at all, they are scary. Being surrounded by people like that would be akin to being surrounded by evil clowns.

shudder

limitedperiodonly

No, I don't think I am MargueritaPink Can you point to where I am?

The lengthy diatribes you have posted on here. You sound obsessed. The obsession with mocking; the sweeping generalisations (eg one lot being the green with envy of another lot). It's all a bit monomaniacal.

Despite stereotypes, the vast majority in Knightsbridge are at least semi-normal people.

limited - The red trousers move about everywhere and they’re no more “angry” than the next person, as far as I can tell.

Margierita They are stupid because they look stupid. I don’t care if holding that opinion makes me arrogant.

Those Harrodsburg pictures are quite funny, aren't they? Or do you think they are normal?

I don't see anything funny about them. Or as another poster said- scary.

What is "normal"? They are photographs of various ages and ethnicities- some are wearing flashier clothes and more make-up than I would choose to do- not sure that makes them abnormal.

There is one set of a young woman wearing a headscarf who looks very unhappy at her photograph being taken. Is she funny?

Bowchicawowow

Margierita They are stupid because they look stupid. I don’t care if holding that opinion makes me arrogant

It makes you look very arrogant and to be honest a tiny bit stupid yourself. Just my opinion of course.

MargueritaPink, come on, be realistic, it makes her look a lot more than a tiny bit stupid.

I also don’t see why those photographs are funny.

I don’t mind being called stupid and arrogant by someone who doesn’t know me over one single issue. Insult me to your heart’s content Margeurita.

How can anyone be incensed about the colour of a pair of trousers?

I own a pair of red jeans AND a pair of mustard ones. I also own a pair of orange ones (my mother dislikes me wearing them as she associates them with prison uniforms).

I have purchased my sons trousers in a myriad of colours simply because I find beige/blue/black to be booooorrrriiiinnnnggg. In my defence, I am American and we hold no class snobbery to trouser colours. In fact, the elder, conservative types would never dare to wear anything but khaki and coloured trousers are seen as very daring.

Your pseudo-classist indignation is better channelled in other places than the colour of a pair of trousers - perhaps in non yellow gillet colours?

Wrong, Bowchica, they're being judged on their appearance.

Think of it in terms of the insect world MargueritaPink

The Harrodsburg people are fat, slow-moving aphids. My husband is a worker ant, assiduously massaging them for their money (honey dew) while giving them a nice place to dwell.

He's visited by worker ants from other colonies and they respect each other and get a discount in each other's places: shops, restaurants, hotels etc.

The red-trousered folk are like drone wasps cast out of their nests - useless and about to die off - a bit annoying when they get in the way because they never spend any money, but easily batted aside.

I'm more of a butterfly. Hovering over as a neutral observer in a decorative way.

That sounds like a perfect world to me.

Wow, obvious who is labouring under the impression they’re amusing

Hovering over as a neutral observer in a decorative way.
You’re not exactly neutral, limited! It’s quite clear who you despise.

Your pseudo-classist indignation is better channelled in other places than the colour of a pair of trousers - perhaps in non yellow gillet colours?

I think the fact that you are American is clouding this one for you Mominatrix

I have a soft calfskin gilet in egg-yolk yellow with a rib collar in matching knitted cashmere and a burgundy cashmere lining. It's by Malo. It's just the thing on these dark days to make me jaunty and keeps me so warm in my prejudices.

I didn't get it in Harrods.

limitedperiodonly, I got through about 10 of the photos you linked to and majority of those were not of overstuffed, entitled wealthy men in red trousers but non-white, mainly muslim, people outside of Harrods. They are photographed in a particularly unflattering way. You find this funny? I find your sense of humour deeply disturbing a quite a bit racist.

I got through about 10 of the photos you linked to and majority of those were not of overstuffed, entitled wealthy men in red trousers but non-white, mainly muslim, people outside of Harrods. They are photographed in a particularly unflattering way. You find this funny? I find your sense of humour deeply disturbing a quite a bit racist

I thought that too.

Well the OP slunk off anyway, but I very much doubt she’s giving her head a wobble.