To feel "posh"

[leopardprintpants]

Have recently bought my DC towelling shorts from Boden for our holiday.. I feel like a bit of a posho which is weird, I know 😂

So what I want to know is, what thing did you buy for your children that made you feel "posh" or even, what have you bought your DC that your parents would have never dreamed of buying for you?

Lighthearted.

@FuckingHateRats

I regularly take my these kids into a bookshop, buy us all a new book and then decamp in the nearest coffee shop for hot drinks and cake, and to read our new books.

My mum thinks this is the epitome of extravagance 🤣🤣

I love this idea and would love to steal. Unfortunately my kids are reluctant readers and two of them are proper wierd as they dont like cake!🙄

@Knittingnanny

There is something very weird about experiencing “ posh” stuff when you are visiting your adult son! He’s very well off ( high earning job) and him and his family live a lifestyle ( overseas) that is so different from the one he had growing up! It’s really strange and hard to explain. We had smart price diluted squash and hand me down clothes til they were all teens when our finances improved somewhat. So seeing the food deliveries, the taxis, holidays, etc seems posh to me. If my dad was still alive he’d find it even posher!

You should be proud of yourself. You must have given him a good start in life. X

@DeedledeDee

I feel posh when I buy proper orange juice in bottles instead of the cheap cartons made of concentrate.

You can buy 'non concentrate' fruit juice in cartons.

I feel very posh when I go to the supermarket/shop and buy what I want rather than what's on sale or the cheapest

I brought a £1500 Pravda bag and I buy Jimmy chops and Loubs

Prada

Bloody auto correct Jimmy choos lol

@rosalie11

I brought a £1500 Pravda bag and I buy Jimmy chops and Loubs

Not sure Pravda would approve of your Prada bag 😂

I felt posh when we hired a cleaner, a gardener and a mother’s help. We are not posh…but it was nice to pretend 😂

@Knittingnanny that reminds me of another one - my mum grew up skint and we were pretty hard up for most of my childhood. When she came to visit recently I booked her an Uber to pick her up, and instead of the usual Prius the driver was in a Mercedes. It may have only been a £10 taxi ride but you’d have thought it was a limo from her reaction!

“ Lotusmonster

Sorry I’ve just looked up Bodensee towelling shorts and I’m perplexed as to why you reckon they’re posh 🤔 The fabric isn’t expensive and they’re sort of gapey….I think they’re naff and chavvy for day time wear. I can see if you wore these things as transition wear post beach, that would be posh…but as actual attire, not posh. Chino shorts are posh. Salmon coloured twill shorts are posh. A thing that ideally requires ironing is posh. Towelling shorts are not posh.

Imagine being this mean spirited

@LunaTheCat ah thank you, wish he was a bit nearer though! It’s flipping 14 hours on a plane!
One of my other sons lives in New York and a few years ago I went on my own to visit him. I was upgraded to business class and felt very posh eating my airline meal on China plates and proper lie down seat!

@Mansplainee
Mean spirited? you’re being generous, I thought @Lotusmonster was a nasty cunt 🤷🏼‍♀️

@MotherWol that would be me!

@ScrollingLeaves

“ Lotusmonster

Sorry I’ve just looked up Bodensee towelling shorts and I’m perplexed as to why you reckon they’re posh 🤔 The fabric isn’t expensive and they’re sort of gapey….I think they’re naff and chavvy for day time wear. I can see if you wore these things as transition wear post beach, that would be posh…but as actual attire, not posh. Chino shorts are posh. Salmon coloured twill shorts are posh. A thing that ideally requires ironing is posh. Towelling shorts are not posh.“

Why would you try to burst the OP’s bubble of pleasure about the special shorts she bought her child?

Why would @Lotusmonster try to burst the Op's bubble? Because @Lotusmonster is clearly not posh also. Had they been posh, they would have demonstrated exemplary manners. Everyone knows posh people have the best manners (almostly saintly according to some MNers 😂) and would not seek to make the non-posh publicly aware of any faux pas they might make - at the very least they'd have pm'd the very humorless and unhelpful correction.

As an aside, Mother care used to do lots of towelling stuff in the 70’s and 80’s for babies and toddlers, they were absolutely brilliant for absorbing dribbles, spilt food etc. My daughter in law had a set her mum had saved and put her little one in it and commented that it was perfect material for children and why don’t they make them any more.

So much snearing on this chat.
And as for the poster who thinks Burberry "hasn't recovered". Riccardo Tisci's Burberry?! Are you sure .
Vilebrequin.... posh. Hahahahah. Don't get me wrong, my husband has a few pairs of these but we are under no illusions they are anything but new money/Dubai pool shorts.

My John Lewis towels made me feel posh.

Brilliant quality, thick, luxurious and actually very reasonable prices but love having JL towels that have a JL label too in my guest loo and family bathroom.

Way back in the very early 80’s Perrier water made me feel posh. How times have changed. 😁 I used my Perrier bottle as a vase for a while 😜

I do a lot of this and have never considered it posh at all. We regularly frequent bookshops then will read them in a local park or coffee shop. I’ve had a Frugi addiction since my older ones were small so about 11 years now! Also always bought them Polarn o Pyret or Boden coats because they last well but they’re older now and don’t think they’re cool so they have Zara ones.

"A thing that ideally requires ironing is posh". Only if you're posh enough to have a tame pleb to do the ironing for you. Otherwise it's just a pain.

"they're not to get wet, just to go over a wet swimsuit"

Ah!

I was wondering what the "point" of them was iyswim!

We used to have a beach holiday every year & mum would make us a towelling beach robe!

Pretty sure we used to slip the wet things off first though.

We have a gardener... it costs about £75 a month and is worth every penny. I do feel posh

We also have a Juliet balcony... not put in by us I hasten to add, but I do love it.

I bought Dusk bedding in the sale, it's fab. I also bought new towels from John Lewis for the first time recently. Felt incredibly decadent.

Perrier - that reminds me of Orangina. That felt super posh when it first arrived in the UK in the 80s!

When I was little I used to think that having a serving hatch in the dining was the very height of poshness, also, my aunty had a green onyx coffee table with gold legs that she kept a matching 'table lighter' and ashtray on, ohhhhh the glamour!