Clothes with daft slogans in English

[AuldAlliance]

Argh! I have just bought DS a new winter coat, as it's freezing here. I checked it(or so I thought) and decided it was inoffensive as the tiny bit of writing on the front is illegible.
I've just spotted that on the shoulder there's a badge thing with "Prestigious department of trend" written on it. It's too late to return it, he's already played like a loony in the park in it.

Why? Why? Why?

Oh this kind of thing makes me laugh so much and cringe with embarrassment all at once.

I have seen so many ridiculous ones here in Spain although I can´t remember any at the moment. I shall have a peak at the supermarket later

Oh and even better are the ones that not only don´t make any sense but are spelt wrong too!!!

oh goodness I have had similar experiences as well.

that blasted fashion for slogans written on the back of boys shirts - I bought several shirts that looked perfectly normal and turned out to have weird stuff on the back after I had got them home.

here in germany, pseudo american military stuff is fairly common too. no, no, no.

My sister was shocked last time she came over to Germany to see f*k and f**ing written on loads of things like posters, cd's and clothes.

Yeah, bought a really cute checked shirt for the baby when he was about 9 months. Wasn't until I got it home that I realised it said "American Military 51" on the back. This was for a BABY. Found that a bit weird but he still wore it 'cause it was mega cute from the front!!

LOL, yes, I know exactly what you mean

I teach kids and teenagers, and often they come in all proud of a new t-shirt or jumper that they've been bought, and ask me what the slogan means.

I've had to translate "my hot lips red", "kitten puppy funny" "all I want is you (on a 5 yo)" and "surf style bondi beach"

Not to mention a couple of obsentities that I pretended didn't mean anything!

LOL Cies - that is HILARIOUS and has made my day!!!

Off to Carrefour now so shall have a peak at the kids´ clothing Will note down any gems

It's not limited to kids; there's a guy in my town who regularly wears a T-shirt with "suck my d*ck" written in fluo pink on the back. I find it really offensive.
And I remember pointing out to a female student that wearing a skin-tight top with "make my day" emblazoned on it was potentially risky, and could be construed as an open invitation to various things...
Then again, French friends often chuckle at the pseudo-French names given to beauty products in the UK; I can't remember any examples, but IIRC Superdrug has several invented French-sounding names for creams, etc.

Same experience as Nighbynight - got to the till with a cute polo shirt and on the back in huge letters was "Beach Scum"! Needless to say I quickly put it back!

Oh god, but when you go back to the UK the slogans are terrible too, all the boys' clothes basically say 'here comes trouble''or Í am a terror' or some grim comment about milk, and all the girls' ones are Daddy's little princess or sex kitten.

At least abroad they have the excuse of possibly not understanding it!

I had a t shirt bought in Oman as a kid, never forgotten it. It said

IN THE SOAR. SHE IS EXPECTED AT ANY MOMENT.

Still haven't worked that one out..

Also had a notebook called 'Fatty Cat Pipi'.

I agree that slogans in the UK are dire, too. But at least there's a good reason for them being in English, and in general they make sense (whatever you may think of their meaning).
In France they often seem to be a random mish-mash of words that have some very vague connection with one another or with a topic deemed cool (fashion/fighting/surfing, etc.). And the idea that because they are in English they are particularly cool is a bit depressing...

These are making me chuckle

I had a quick peak at the kids´ dept at my local supermarket. In the young boys section I spotted¨

"Music in my garage" on the back of a polo shirt (?)and then "Hot Rod" on the back of another

I must admit its on the non-sensical ones that make me laugh, I too would be offended AuldAlliance if I had to witness the vulgar ones.

Oh and infront of me at the check-out was a woman wearing a winter jacket with "Nirvana" written acoss the back and No I don´t think it was the group.

Not clothes, but I have some beautiful handmade Japanese writing paper that says, on every page, in wonderfully intricate calligraphy:
Tonight I must stay at home! And finish my boyfriend's knitting! How many happiness!

This is why I get so much of DSs things in Decathlon, no silly slogans. (I don't mind it all saying Domyos and Quechua)

There's a boy in the La Redoute catalogue wearing a T shirt with a pic of a pair of trainers and the slogan 'smell factory'.

Lol at bucharest-the !'s are hilarious!

I have nearly choked to death reading this thread - I want a BEACH SCUM shirt!!

More here...

I love the fact it is called Engrish.com!

Vertbaudet have, or had, some boys' rugby tops that say a very big and important "Legend of Castle" plastered across the back.

But my most recent favourite was a girls' t-shirt that said in big letters "THAT'S THE WAY IT'S".

At least the apostrophes were right

I didn't see that one-that one is good!

When I lived in Japan the rubber gloves I used to get said Enjoy kitchen life! on the packaging. I will never forget them....

I saw a man wearing a t shirt which said, thousands of your potential granchildren died last night on your daughters face!

These are great. I will always remember ging to a holiday town and seeing a 60/70 year old woman (bviously very respectable normally) wearing a bright pink tshirt basically saying 'come and get it'. I think it was 'hot and ready'. I wasn't and am still not sue whether to laugh and cry.