To hate red trousers on men?

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

OP was out having fun, popping back in before going out again.

Have fun, but DO NOT enter into anywhere with offensive dress codes.

Pink corduroy trousers are practically uniform here. Most men wear them in shades from dark dusk to burgundy for any event without a code. Much nicer with a nice jumper than any of the following

• slogan t shirts
• baseball caps
• jogging pants
• vests
• slimy track suits
• jeans which don’t fit and with holes
• white trousers
• trousers drooping below pants.
• shirts with buttons holding collar

Not many guys can wear red trousers without looking like a poser. Jack White from the white stripes is the only guy I can think of who could carry the red trousers look well.

Does he actually look ridiculous? Or very well dressed?

@CandleWithHair didn't see your post, completely agree. They look well dressed and put together.

Mominatrix you don't get it. Probably because you aren't from round here. It's more to do with English men in red trousers who used to live in Knightsbridge, Chelsea and Kensington 40 years ago being displaced by the international super-rich and being baffled.

I wouldn't feel sorry for them if I were you. Many of them have sold up at an enormous profit and now live round my way. That's one of the things I find funny. But like I said, I wouldn't expect you to get it if you weren't local.

But don't tell me that I'm racist but that would be ignorant and offensive and I'd hate to think that of you

because that would be ignorant and offensive and I'd hate to think that of you

It's what came to mind for me too. You are the one who described the pictures as "funny" and queried whether they are "normal"

A significant number were of women of Asian or Middle Eastern ethnicity wearing head coverings, including one young woman who tried unsuccessfully to hide her face.

What was supposed to be "funny"? about them. Do you mock women wearing headscarves? Well clearly you do.

limited, I really don't care what you think about me - however you are coming across as quite peculiar in having a hatred against a trouser colour.

Oh, and I'd take another look at those photos, they ARE racist and classist.

Quick google search of red trousers men brought this up - how does this fit your narrow stereotype?

Or this Street Style snap - look inoffensive to me.

It’s the red trouser with shirt and/or jacket combo that looks daft.

I think it’s pretty clear the OP is referring to a particularly type of trousers - not all trousers that are red are ‘fucking red trousers’ to quote the website. Jack white’s red skinnies =/= Nantucket reds!

And I guess Idris Elba did not get the memo...

Mominatrix It really isn't about all red trousers.

I have two pairs of red trousers, a red skirt and a pair of red checked linen trousers which may make me look like a children's entertainer but which I dearly hope I can pull off . I also used to wear a pair of red leather shorts before my arse dropped out of them.

But with respect to you as an American, you don't understand the resonance that 'red trousers' has for those of us who live in central and SW London.

I think I do understand - it is lazy shorthand for an antipathy against a certain person of a certain class.

Still, it is no better than a poster coming on here and stating that they hate Nova check Burberry wearing chavs.

Mominatrix The UK working class get a lot of grief about how they dress. Check out the Daily Mail at the time of the Grand National or the photos they take in Wigan town centre when it’s full of young people wearing the traditional fancy dress. The middle classes get off extremely lightly in comparison.

And I'd take another look at those photos, they ARE racist and classist

And ageist. A fair number of them were of older people.

It's not the photographs themselves which are racist, classist or ageist but the invitation by limitedperiodonly to other posters to agree with her and find them funny or not normal which is racist, classist and ageist.

Check out the Daily Mail’s photos taken at the Grand National Marguerita. There are lots of ageist photographs taken and non end of mumsnet threads with posters laughing at them.

it is lazy shorthand for an antipathy against a certain person of a certain class.

Still, it is no better than a poster coming on here and stating that they hate Nova check Burberry wearing chavs

Yes. And what the Daily Mail may or may not do is irrelevant to this thread. 2 wrongs don't make a right.

Bow Your point is still irrelevant to this thread. For what it is worth I can only think of one Grand National day thread I've ever posted on (under a different name) and I was nothing but complimentary about the outfits. I even saved one picture of a stunned feathered hat. Of the ones I didn't like I simply didn't comment at all.

I very much disliked the invitation to laugh at the "funny" pictures of the Harrods' customers.

It really isn’t irrelevant to the thread when people talk about snobbery/inverted snobbery.

I was going to write a reply but i think it's a waste of time talking to MargueritaPink and Mominatrix

I'm not going to be drawn down a rabbit hole

There are lots of ageist photographs taken and non end of mumsnet threads with posters laughing at them

Unless it’s the same posters it’s a non-point. I posted on a MN Grand National thread with the same opinion.

Making fun of people’s outfits is puerile and unpleasant.