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AIBU?

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to be horrified at GAP succumbing

51 replies

JesusChristOtterStar · 01/11/2009 21:55

to the nasty sexed up logos on kids clothing

saw 'stud muffin' on a top for a newborn baby boy yesterday

was shopping for my baby with my 17 year old - i pointed it out to my teenager and he was shocked

shame Gap think this acceptable

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ilovepiccolina · 01/11/2009 21:59

YANBU. I always thougth Gap were quite classy. This sounds horrible.

littleducks · 01/11/2009 21:59

oooh shall i mention this at the stella mc cartney thing tomorrow?

LynetteScavo · 01/11/2009 22:02

Did it have a picture of a muffin on it too?

LynetteScavo · 01/11/2009 22:05

Oh yes!

YABU.

LynetteScavo · 01/11/2009 22:08

Stud Muffin

ImSoNotTelling · 01/11/2009 22:14

Why? Why do they do this?

It is weird

JesusChristOtterStar · 01/11/2009 22:21

lynette you think i am being unreasonable to be offended?

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WowOoo · 01/11/2009 22:24

Have noticed this too. Write to them to voice your opinion. if you get an address I'll email them too. !!

LynetteScavo · 01/11/2009 22:28

I think you are unreasonable "to be horrified at GAP succumbing to the nasty sexed up logos on kids clothing."

I wouldn't buy it, but I've seen a lot worse when out shopping.

JesusChristOtterStar · 01/11/2009 22:32

i am horrfied and will think twice about shopping there

i thought they had a wee bit more {dare i say it - in the broadest possible term) 'class'

i think you are unreasonable to think that because other places are worse i should accept this

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LynetteScavo · 01/11/2009 22:43

Well...you did ask.

If you are really so horrified, do let them know, boycott GAP...post on internet forums about their slogans. I have at no point sugested you should accept it.

If you think you are being reasonable,(in which case why ask?), of course you think any one who thinks YABU, is them self BU.

I am no longer suprised, let alone horified by any item of clothing in any shop. (I saw a most distateful jacket in Harrods about 13 years ago!)

JesusChristOtterStar · 01/11/2009 22:43

I know i am not anyway

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Monsterspam · 01/11/2009 22:55

Stud muffin would mean "Oh, I could just eat him up" to me, which a lot of people say about babies. I think the top is cute IMHO

YABU

thesecondcocking · 01/11/2009 22:55

doesn't gap have children making it's clothes? yabu shopping at gap...

LynetteScavo · 02/11/2009 09:25

And I see they are doing a direct rip off of a Boden "Big Cheese" top from a few years ago.

Callisto · 02/11/2009 09:35

Stud muffin has an obvious sexual connotation. To me Daniel Craig is a stud muffin (not that I would ever use such a distasteful term) who I could happily 'eat'. A baby can't possibly be described as a 'stud muffin'.

badietbuddy · 02/11/2009 09:37

monsterspam, stud muffin reallllly does not mean that you could eat him up...
I saw a halloween t shirt in there that saif 'teething bites' which, while I did have a smirk at it, I didn't really think appropriate either

gorionine · 02/11/2009 09:43

Thanks LynetteScavo, I had no idea what a stud muffin was.

YANBU, very inapropriate for a baby.

Longtalljosie · 02/11/2009 10:45

Why on earth don't Gap have a UK website? It's bizarre...

MissM · 02/11/2009 10:48

This is a bit off the topic but I saw a t-shirt the other day, nice picture of a vintage car on it with 'My other ride is your sister' written underneath. Why??? Why would anyone wear that, and why would anyone laugh at it? Maybe I'm just getting old, but it just seemed so utterly distasteful.

LynetteScavo · 02/11/2009 11:01

See...distateful slogans are every where! Where was that MissM? Was it a child's top?

MissM · 02/11/2009 11:07

To be fair it wasn't a child's top, but couuld have been for a teenager. It was in Spitalfields market in London - supposedly full of 'young designer' stalls

WowOoo · 02/11/2009 11:50

I caught myself laughing at a distateful slogan t-shirt that a fully grown builder was wearing last week.

I get it if an adult wants to wear it. it's just sad that we can choose from crap aimed at little uns.

Teens that get more of a say in what they wear might think it's so cool and funny. I'm sure I chose some horrific items when I was a teen. (but band T-shirts usually or something too boyish) My poor Mum!

LynetteScavo · 02/11/2009 12:13

I don't think my mother has recovered from me wearing an fcuk t-shirt yet.

GertieGumboyle · 02/11/2009 12:15

YANBU. It is gross.

I didn't have a fcuk t-shirt precisely because my mum and gran wouldn't have liked it!!

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