AIBU to find this a bit weird : ASDA selling “boyfriend” cardigan?

[BoredZelda]

Was looking for a school cardigan for my daughter and ASDA have one that’s called a “boyfriend” cardigan.

I’ve never heard of it before and am a bit Am I missing something? AIBU to find this a weird name for an item of clothing for girls?

It’s a descriptor like boyfriend or girlfriend jeans - it means an oversized item like when a girl borrows her boyfriend’s clothes. It’s not about having a boyfriend or attracting one.

Yes it a style now. Usually just oversized/baggy. I agree it sounds weird. Just like boyfriend jeans, mom jeans etc

Boyfriend fit cardigans have been around for years

They've been called this for ages. I guess you could pick holes in the heteronormativity but it just means a cardigan for women which is long-line and fairly loose fitting, as if borrowed from a man (but with sleeves and shoulder width of the appropriate size for a woman).

It’s just a style. A loose fitting cardigan. Boyfriend jeans, Mom jeans etc. Just a style. Nothing to do with having a boyfriend. Come from borrowing your boyfriend’s cardigan and it being loose.

Have you really not come across it? Boyfriend jeans have been around for a few years now.

I've only ever heard of boyfriend jeans but it all sounds weird to me. Tight jeans are often in fashion for men - why aren't they called girlfriend jeans?

I think I bought a boyfriend cardigan at least 10 years ago. Amazed that you've never seen this before!

It's just an oversized style.

Boyfriend cardigans, boyfriend jeans, boyfriend jumpers, etc, have been around for at least a decade! A quick Google would have got to the bottom of this.

@MsVestibule

I've only ever heard of boyfriend jeans but it all sounds weird to me. Tight jeans are often in fashion for men - why aren't they called girlfriend jeans?

I don't think they'd be very popular 😂

Yabu
It’s a term that has been used for years
I’m surprised you haven’t heard of it before

I think ‘boyfriend’ in clothing denotes something which is loose fitting, with a cut more usual in men’s clothes, such as wider shoulders or longer length.

YABU. It’s been around years.

Yabu
It has been a thing for a long while. Means looser fit I think

Have you really not come across it? Boyfriend jeans have been around for a few years now.

I really haven’t. But I’m quite old and don’t follow fashion, or shop on the high street much for clothes.

Boyfriend fit clothes have been around for decades

A quick Google would have got to the bottom of this.

I did Google it but that never came up.

@MsVestibule

I've only ever heard of boyfriend jeans but it all sounds weird to me. Tight jeans are often in fashion for men - why aren't they called girlfriend jeans?

But the naming of boyfriend jeans etc. comes from women borrowing clothes, which are too big for them, from men, so they are a bit baggy, which I certainly have done when young; no man ever borrowed my clothes, which were too small for him, and styled them as skinny fit.

fashion term that's been around for decades. a bit kinder than "old man" jeans, vest or cardigan. means oversized and loose fitting.

I think I bought a boyfriend cardigan at least 10 years ago. Amazed that you've never seen this before!

As am I, now so many have explained it 🤣

@MsVestibule

I've only ever heard of boyfriend jeans but it all sounds weird to me. Tight jeans are often in fashion for men - why aren't they called girlfriend jeans?

I guess because women are much more likely to borrow mens clothing than the other way around

Oops cross post dietrich !

a bit kinder than "old man" jeans

But they don’t actually sell them as “old man jeans” do they? Or maybe they do, as clearly I’m completely not with it when it comes to shopping. Never heard of “mom jeans” either 😅

@MsVestibule

I've only ever heard of boyfriend jeans but it all sounds weird to me. Tight jeans are often in fashion for men - why aren't they called girlfriend jeans?

Because anything related to women is considered inferior or a downgrade, whereas a woman wearing something "belonging" to men is getting an upgrade to a superior state.

Boyfriend fit clothes have been around for decades

How many decades? Because I genuinely don’t recall seeing this as a named style back when I actually did shop in the likes of River Island as a teen more than 3 decades ago.