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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

OP posts:
pigletmania · 02/11/2009 13:04

YANBU this is just cheap, crass and puts them in league with the cheap nasty logoed kids stuff you get at the market but pay a fraction of the price for.

BonjourIvresse · 02/11/2009 13:20

I think most slogan t-shirts are horribe, this one particularly so. I think the stella maccartney range is horrible too, as well as being for the most part completely unwearable in a typical child's life.

Mermaidspam · 02/11/2009 15:11

Lol, I had a FCUK top precisely because my mum and gran wouldn't have liked it (was rebellious teenagery thing to do!)

oldraver · 02/11/2009 18:22

I got warned by a police officer that my FCUKin Big Tits t-shirt was offensive and not to wear it to church or hospital

EdgarAllenPoo · 02/11/2009 18:27

i have a clothing prejudice against slogans, but i woul dbe more horrifed at the utter blandness generally found in GAP.

YABU - though i believe they are mroe careful about sourcing their clobber since a few scandals.

anyone else read No Logo?

LynetteScavo · 02/11/2009 18:38

Oldraver..was the police officer youger than you?

mollyroger · 02/11/2009 18:45

dO gAP still stock clothes made by children in sweat shops?

oldraver · 02/11/2009 18:51

Lynettee.... Possibly (well I was about 40 at the time). He could of been the same age. He was very serious about it and quite officious. He just went on and on about how some people would find it offensive blah blah blah. Normally I would of called him on it as I dont need telling what is suitable for church etc (I was on the way home form a club). But he was letting me off on a minor indescretion so I felt I had to take the lecturing telling off

LynetteScavo · 02/11/2009 21:28

He'd caught you having a wee, hadn't he!

Vivia · 03/11/2009 10:11

I think for baby clothes, these slogans are incredibly bad taste.

I will admit to having a FCUK t-shirt: 'Too busy to FCUK'. I was 13 and didn't understand the sexy connotation - I thought it was 'sweary' and cool so bought it with birthday money. My DM went nuts. Rather cringeworthy now!

nappyaddict · 22/12/2009 03:27

Those of you who do not like slogans on children's clothes what do you think of:

these

or these

these

these

this

this

vulpes · 22/12/2009 08:11

nappyaddict i think they are equally horrific.

FanjoForTheMankySocks · 22/12/2009 08:16

my mum was staying with us years ago and needed a clean tshirt so borrowed one of DHs..she went for coffee to a very "genteel" department store and wondered why everyone was staring at her. When she got home she realised she had a "FCUK" tshirt on (she is 70) and hadn't noticed.

GetOrfMoiLand · 22/12/2009 08:18

If I saw a child wearing the 'I only eat organic chips', 'Formula is for suckers' or 'Breast if Best' t shirts I would consider their parents to be complete twats.

bogie · 22/12/2009 08:22

When we had ds1, one of dp's friends bought this for ds

GetOrfMoiLand · 22/12/2009 08:25

Bogie - that is bloody disgusting.

I take it that dp's friend was a spotty oik who was single and childless. Or 14 years old.

bogie · 22/12/2009 08:28

Yes
Spotty - check
Single - check (still is)
Childless - of course

Needless to say dp doesn't see many of his friends that he used to go out with.

NaccetyMac · 22/12/2009 08:49

I like some slogan t-shirts - DS2 was bought one that says "bright eyed and bushy tailed," which we love (it's a 6-12 m size, he's worn it from 10 weeks until now at 12m!)

I HATE boys t-shirts covered in "monster," "naughty" etc, and girls ones with "princess" all over them - one of DD's first outfits came from MIL and was a pink romper that said "I love to shop" complete with pics of a hand bag, lipstick and a bottle of milk - in NB size. That was over 6 years ago, the horror has clearly embalzoned it in my memory.

I suppose YAB a bit U because you don't have to shop there - but that it would be totally R to email and express your disquiet!

ginormoboobs · 22/12/2009 09:17

Yanbu , it is horrid.
My DS wore t-shirts with slogans such as - I like milk from my Mum and not just any old cow , Mummy milk rocks and he has one he wears to bed that says breastfed on it (he weaned 7 months ago so probably not appropriate). I couldn't care less if it makes me a complete twat. All of those slogans are true and not offensive.
Far nicer than a tshirt with princess written on it in sequins.

TheFoosa · 22/12/2009 09:18

did lol at the dcuk one

nannynobnobs · 22/12/2009 11:14

My DD2 has one that says 'Little Monkey' with a silhouette of one of the flying Wizard of Oz monkeys on it. I love it, it's too small and shows her belly now but she still wears it sometimes!
Some of them can be quite witty in a sweet way, but a lot of them are just hideous.

nappyaddict · 22/12/2009 12:48

Hmm trying to think of some that I have seen. What about:

"Half boy half machine"
"Boy"
"Big brother"
"My giraffe is very tall"
"It wasn't me"
"Trouble might be my middle name but I didn't do it"
"Here comes trouble"
"I dig being me"
"Space shuttle"
"Wild outdoors"
"Park keeper"

Amaiasmum · 22/12/2009 14:29

this one left me speechless when i saw it.

www.kaboodle.com/reviews/my-daddys-a-mother-fucker

Charming

CardyMow · 22/12/2009 16:06

I am having this argument with my 11yo DD ATM, she wants one of those (oh-so-classy) tracksuits that say 'sexy' across the bottom. I have told her a very emphatic NO! She thinks I'm being 'old and boring', I think it sends out the wrong impression. When she was about 5/6yo, there was a fashion for t-shirts that said 'so many boys, so little time', her friends wore them, I thought it was just plain WRONG to put that on a child of that age. OP, YANBU!!!

squilly · 22/12/2009 16:42

i think that last link with the breastfed tee shirt is vile.

I like the DCUK one, though. Very funny