To be irritated with all the USA themed clothing?

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Why can’t you get a plain hoodie or tshirt any more? They’re all emblazoned with New York, Chicago, Illinois, Michigan, Arizona etc.

I can see buying one if you’re in that state on holiday, but why are they being sold everywhere in the UK? Are they selling them with Blackpool, Glasgow, Cardiff and Belfast on them in the US?

You see Paris or Milan ones too but the states dominate. Why are clothing manufacturers doing this? And why are people buying them? Let us have plain clothes please!

This has annoyed my daughter for years.
She won’t shop in New Look anymore because she’ll see what she thinks is a nice jumper/hoodie/tshirt and it ends up having Los Angeles or Florida written across the front.

@mathanxiety I'm not sure if the camping place was real or made up to be honest.

‘Hartlepool’ and ‘Torquay’. There’s a gap in the market here. This is the proper, realistic, way to brag about places we’ve visited.

I bought a hoody that had the year 1986 embroidered across the front, thought it might make me look younger 😆😜. As in the false year of my birth.

I agree. I don’t get writing on clothes at all. I also don’t get characters on them, unless you’re actually going to Disney or only wearing them at home.

I could not sympathise more! This is what gets to me. They’re nice clothes ruined by the writing.

It’ll be Grand Teton. It’s up there with the New Yorks and Floridas when it comes to hoodies.

Im contradicting everything I’ve said on this thread about hating writing and characters on clothes. I’ve got a Beetlejuice T-shirt that’s got 1988 written across. I bought it because it’s the year I was born. So I’m a hypocrite!

Teenage DD likes the football ones despite never having seen a game of NFL. She has a Dallas Cowboys one because she likes their cheerleading squad and another one I can't remember the name of because Taylor Swifts boyfriend plays for them, apparently. It's harmless enough, they're just t shirts.

Kansas City Chiefs

This trend irritates me too OP. They look like souvenirs and I would feel odd wearing the stuff if I had never been to the place.

I was in Boston last year and got me and the kids sweatshirts / t shirts with Boston on it whilst there as souvenirs. I stopped short at Harvard merch, even though we went to see the campus - think it’s beyond dick-ish to wear those if you haven’t actually been a student there or have an otherwise close connection - do the people who do think they are fooling/ impressing people I wonder?!

I have a Maine one from when my parents visited Maine years ago. I can see it as a souvenir, but when you’ve bought it in your local town it’s just odd (although can see teenagers liking them to emulate Taylor Swift or whatever).

Yes, do they think we think they’ve been students there or do they know we know they haven’t? And if the latter, what’s the point?

Bit off topic but the same shops appear to be struggling to provide the whole top. Everything is cropped.

I have several, they’re in the mainstream shops because it’s the trend in thrift shops in the uk, the rise of people into watching ncaa sports and just the popularity of American culture, I doubt anyone is getting them to pretend they went to that college.

In fairness though we do get a lot of Union Jack clothes over here. And your football ⚽️ is gaining popularity so I think it’s evening out. Maybe you’ve all stumbled on a money maker… print up a bunch of hoodies with your town names or local football clubs and market them to Americans.

If you can’t beat them make money off of them join them !

Just once I would like to see a proper souvenir one with "Mummy went to Harvard and all I got was this lousy hoodie."

Grand Teton National Park is not a campsite. It is a really glorious Alpine national park, full of bears and other wildlife.

Which has several camp sites 🙄.

Thread reminded me of this news item 😀

news.stv.tv/scotland/japanese-designer-selling-range-of-shirts-with-random-scottish-place-names

I may start a thread saying how much sweatshirts with dates on really irritate me 😆

See the same with Oxford and Cambridge University hoodies.

Primani? Tk maxx? M & S, Zara
Literally dozens of places you can get plain clothing.
But why anyone would want to wear any 'labelled' or logo'd clothing is beyond me. You're just an advertising board for the company. Any item with a designer logo or specific design says much about the person and their neediness, but mainly screams 'look at me, i am happy to pay this compny a lot of money to be a walking advertising hoard for them'

At least Oxford and Cambridge are names of actual cities so you could visit them and have nothing to do with the universities. But Harvard etc aren't universities that are in a city called Harvard (or Yale or wherever...)
If you went as a tourist to wherever Harvard is wouldn't you want a souvenir of that place? (checks Google to find out where Harvard actually is...... Cambridge in Massachusetts - that's confusing 😂)
Edit : Princeton is actually in Princeton New Jersey! No idea where Yale is but I know it's not a city called Yale)

Lots of people saying it's so easy to get plain hoodies or sweatshirt , but I struggle to find ones that aren't
Cropped (because sure of course I want a cold stomach)
Longer length (comes to my knees!)
Relaxed (drowns me)
Or some other weird fit! And when I do find the holy grail plain normal fit, oh its only in grey or black, no nice colours!

I don’t see the problem. DD1 has gone up a size. I bought her half a dozen new plain sweatshirts from Next, etc.

What I have noticed is Primark has been big on Hello Kitty since about September, as it’s the 50th anniversary. Both DDs love the stuff! Italian themed decorations on t shirts and hoodies also seem big at New Look, Peacocks, etc. I got DD1 a nice pale yellow t shirt and sweatshirt, with Amalfi in pale blue across the front - but we have been there and I thought the colours were were nice. Ditto, Next and New Look do t shirts with pictures of fruit or pasta, glasses of wine and tomatoes.

Imo, these are preferable to some slogans on t shirts?

Yes. But I also think that buttons look weird on clothes if they’re just sewn on randomly instead of being functional so I probably take it a bit far.