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Original poster

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

219 replies

Latinorapida · 04/01/2022 21:52

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?

OP posts:
Omicrone · 04/01/2022 22:54

[quote ShoesEverywhere]Nobody's child (afaik) refers to nobody's child labour used to make the clothes. I line the name Smile

www.nobodyschild.com/who-made-our-clothes[/quote]
Ah, that's actually really nice!

I love their clothes Smile

RaininSummer · 04/01/2022 22:54

Never seen Annie and never heard of this song reference either. I know it's about a curly haired orphan and that is it.

SwimmingOnEggshells · 04/01/2022 22:57

I think Sweaty Betty is an ick name

Nairobiblue · 04/01/2022 22:57

@CharlotteGoldenblattYork

I always think Fat Face is a terrible name!
Agreed, although I love their clothes.
Soakitup37 · 04/01/2022 22:58

My 7 yo sang you’re never fully dressed in the Annie production they did last summer, he sung it as it was on over Christmas too. I don’t recall the song from being in Annie but I know it as a common saying /song.

I have younger siblings in their teens/early 20s and these shops are their mainstream- I’m not phased by their brand names only that I know they aren’t branded for me. I used to wear clothes with FCUK on it with pride - almost to a point that I enjoyed knowing it offended others. Jane Norman and Morgan clothes may have sounded less offensive but the clothes were brilliantly so!

As for music, it’s an evolution. Songs before my time, welcome to the house of fun/relax/ a number of Prince songs and George Michael all explicitly obviously about sex. My era- I adored Christina Aguilera, I thought she was a brilliant singer and idolised her. My sisters barely know any of her old songs.

I promised myself I’d never grow up to be one of those oldies who rave about the “good old days” without trying to remember who I was then and how much I enjoyed that phase/age.

jeepersdeepers · 04/01/2022 22:58

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

yep. Dirty was the outlier & she was lambasted for it. No one would raise an eyebrow today imo.

jeepersdeepers · 04/01/2022 22:59

Annie is part of everyday culture?

I know hard knock life because if jay-z....

ClaudiaWankleman · 04/01/2022 23:00

Annie is part of everyday culture?

Yes. It’s a reference I would expect to be able to throw into my average everyday conversations and it be understood. It’s hardly niche popular culture.

BringBackCoffeeCreams · 04/01/2022 23:00

I vague remember starting to watch Annie way back in the mists of time but didn't get past the opening number. Way too much high pitched squarking for my autistic ears. Even now just thinking about it I'm putting my hands over my ears.

WonderfulYou · 04/01/2022 23:00

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

I listen to Tupac most days and Britney a couple times a month but I’ve never seen Annie or know the songs apart from the one line ‘it’s a hard knock life for us’.

Fat face is one that I can’t get over.

The others usually have other meanings or like misguided although a negative word is turned into something good, like words like sick, bad or cold which mean good.
But fat face has never been anything but negative.

WithANameLikeDaniCalifornia · 04/01/2022 23:00

@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.

I bought an energy drink called “Blue Bastard” in Amsterdam. For some reason I thought it was hilarious 🤔
jeepersdeepers · 04/01/2022 23:01

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

😁

Tiddlywinkly · 04/01/2022 23:01

Re origin of the Fat Face name. It's inspired by a mountain ski route. You're welcome. Grin us.fatface.com/ourstory
Right, I'm off to bed. Night all!

FestiveFruitloop · 04/01/2022 23:01

@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?

I read that wrong at first and thought 'I'm sure there are more' was the name of a clothing brand Grin
jeepersdeepers · 04/01/2022 23:02

Yes. It’s a reference I would expect to be able to throw into my average everyday conversations and it be understood. It’s hardly niche popular culture.

which reference though, the character Annie or the song?

WonderfulYou · 04/01/2022 23:03

I promised myself I’d never grow up to be one of those oldies who rave about the “good old days” without trying to remember who I was then and how much I enjoyed that phase/age.

I literally said the the exact same thing today!!

My DD called me cringe for singing along to a decent song and I said how it’s a classic and music isn’t as good as it used to be etc - then I was like omg I’ve turned into my mum!

WeDontTalkAboutBruno · 04/01/2022 23:04

I'll never forget the tears of laughter rolling down my face at my late mums utter horror at having bought FCUK trainers from the charity shop to walk the dog in. She'd not seen the branding on the tongue of them.

She was absolutely mortified that she'd been speaking to Freda next door and she might have read them. No amount of explaining French connection would calm her horror and she re donated them the following week.

Chuckling to myself now thinking about it bless her.

pigsDOfly · 04/01/2022 23:06

I've never seen Annie either, so wouldn't know the song about not being fully dressed without a smile.

I can't stand musicals and from what little I know about Annie it sounds like one I would particularly loathe.

ClaudiaWankleman · 04/01/2022 23:06

which reference though, the character Annie or the song?

The song, the line of the song. The reference that we are discussing.

jeepersdeepers · 04/01/2022 23:07

yeah I would say the line of the song is pretty niche. But you can disagree

Original poster
Latinorapida · 04/01/2022 23:08

@MissTrip82

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.

Yes I just feel so embarrassed. Is it that obvious?! Can you help ? X
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foxgoosefinch · 04/01/2022 23:08

I bought a really nice coat for my DD (8) from Fat Face, but she was too horrified to wear it because of the name. I have to see something over the label before she will apparently 🤣

There’s a fish restaurant near my mum and dad’s called Pimp My Fish. I just can’t….

FlasherMcGruff · 04/01/2022 23:10

Acne jeans and Sweaty Betty are terrible names

Mrsmadevans · 04/01/2022 23:10

I agree with you OP l hate the name CEX .

foxgoosefinch · 04/01/2022 23:11

*sew something over the label!