To ask wtf is up with the name of these clothing brands?

[Latinorapida]

Nobody’s child

Little Mistress

Never fully dressed.

Im sure there are more.

I just don’t get it. It’s cringe and depressed.

Also, ‘never fully dressed’ now do children’s clothing too. I just could not buy my child clothing from a company with that name. I don’t know if I’m reading it wrong, I don’t think I am, it just seems to have some kind of suggestive implication.

AIBU?

Annie the musical is part of every day culture? Really ? That’s news to me grin I can’t tell if you’re joking.

I’m a very similar age to you - we sang the song in school assemblies. I’ve seen it on TV a couple of times. Sia released a remix of the same song a few years ago. It’s uncommon to not know the song.

Lots of restaurants refer to items as ‘filthy’ ‘filthy fries’ ‘dirty burger’…

I'm pretty sure 'dirty' in relation to food comes from foods like Dirty Rice, a dish from the Deep South USA where rice is cooked with chicken livers or other cheap meats, which colour the white rice a dirty brown colour.

Also, coincidentally (or not, Alexa….)

Bowie is now playing in my kitchen.

Black struck the kiss, she kept my cock
Smote the mistress, drifting on
’Tis a pity she was a whore

The worst is a restaurant called sexy fish. Two words that do not belong together lol

@Latinorapida
I think the opposite. Everything has to be overly sexualised or crude or disturbing somehow. It’s like they’re trying to normalise it. I’ve noticed it especially over the past 3/4 years, and for reference Im only 27 years old. For example, music videos from when I was little the raunchiest thing at the time was Britney Spears. Now you literally have a woman twerking her arse and fanny in your face talking about her ‘wet pussy’.

Lots of restaurants refer to items as ‘filthy’ ‘filthy fries’ ‘dirty burger’…

the most popular shop on the kings road for 14-16 year old girls at the moment (you literally see them queuing up outside) is called ‘Subdued’…. I could go on…

I agree with everything you’ve said. As I’m veggie I’m never going to eat one but what on earth is a “dirty burger” and why would anyone want to eat something called that?
And don’t get me started on clothing names and some children’s clothes.

You won't approve of the TOWIE scaffolding company, the only way is erect! 😆

My neck my back by khia was from 2001and is just as explicit as wap

@ClaudiaWankleman

Annie the musical is part of every day culture? Really ? That’s news to me grin I can’t tell if you’re joking.

I’m a very similar age to you - we sang the song in school assemblies. I’ve seen it on TV a couple of times. Sia released a remix of the same song a few years ago. It’s uncommon to not know the song.

Ill have to ask around! Oh actually, come to think of it I don’t know that it’s the hard knocks life for us song. Do you find me less weird now? Haha

*do

Britney vids are tame to what music vids are like these days.

And you do remember the Christina Aguilera videos from the same era as Britney, don’t you?

"I saw it first" suits me as I wouldn't be seen dead in that tat!

@Curlyreine

20 years ago one of my favourite brands was 'hussy'.

I had a fluffy blue waistcoat with 'hussy' in big white letters on the back.

I was anything but a hussy, but thought I was cool AF.

Oh my god I'd forgotten about hussy it was one of my faves. With my first ever pay from my Saturday job I bought a blue hoodie with hussy on it in big letters. Wore it to sixth form and the head thought it was hilarious . Wasn't cheap stuff either I bet that hoodie cost something ridiculous like £40-£50 in 2001

Dirty Little Style Bitch. Never again!

wtf 😆

Just googled the lyrics to 'my neck my back.'
Now feeling very very old...

@ClaudiaWankleman

A 27 year old should recognise the song lyric. It’s part of every day culture. It’s weird to not know the song to be honest.

I disagree about the music thing too. Tupac was singing about worse things but you probably didn’t listen to them because you were an infant and that has passed you by. They don’t play explicit versions on the radio or TV and never have.

Annie is part of everyday culture?

There's a burger chain near us called Bastard Burgers. I'm told they are the best but I'll never know as my pearls wouldn't survive.

I've also managed to avoid the musical Annie for 50 years and had no idea of the song reference.

@ClaudiaWankleman - my husband doesn’t know it either. Maybe we’ve both been living under a rock. But it’s not our fault… our schools failed us for not letting us sing those song during assemblies! Hehehe

@FallonCarringtonWannabe

I had no idea about this song Im quite shocked an adult has never seen Annie or heard the song youre never fully dressed without a smile.

Add me to that list of adults. I've never even come close to seeing Annie. Have a vague idea that it's about an orphan girl but know nothing more and would never have guessed that "never fully dressed" was supposed to end about a smile. I'm 36. I can also confirm that not one of my 5 siblings or their partners have ever seen Annie either.

My favourite memory of Fat Face is that in my first job out of uni, our new PR Manager stopped me and asked where my top was from. I said 'Fat Face' - proud as punch that I'd overspent on a top but that a senior team member liked it. She said 'oh, that's nice, I've never heard of that brand'. My slim friend, standing next to me, said 'oh yes, I like clothes from there too'. To which the PR Manager said to her 'but you're not fat...' THANKS PR LADY whose name I can't remember but whose words have stayed with me for 15 years.

Also @Omicrone thanks for your review of Too Faced BTS mascara... I was about to buy it as I'd heard it was good, but now I won't!! 😂

There are a couple of coffee shops in Derbyshire called F'coffee. They state it's because you can say you're going f'coffee...

Nobody's child (afaik) refers to nobody's child labour used to make the clothes. I line the name

www.nobodyschild.com/who-made-our-clothes

@Theworkhouse

Time - David Bowie

Time – He flexes like a whore
Falls wanking to the floor
His trick is you and me, boy

That was the exact song that immediately sprang into my mind

@BringBackCoffeeCreams

There's a burger chain near us called Bastard Burgers. I'm told they are the best but I'll never know as my pearls wouldn't survive.

I've also managed to avoid the musical Annie for 50 years and had no idea of the song reference.

@ClaudiaWankleman ^Another weirdo !!

@MoonBat

I had dinner at Pasta Slut a few weeks ago. It was bloody amazing.

There's a Egg slut as well, absolutely amazing :) there was also a food truck I saw a while back called "Mother Tuckers"

Quite unusual to be familiar with misery, Tupac and early Britney but to have never heard of a famous song from a famous musical.

Bit embarrassing to be ignorant about a quote and so decide it must be offensive.