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.

My son had a Boden coat a few years back. It didn’t matter that it was second hand from a charity shop I still felt posh because it was Boden because my money doesn’t stretch that far to buy that stuff new or at full price. My daughter’s Ralph Lauren trainers (new but on a clearance site) also made me feel proper posh. I was brought up in handed down clothes, I think even some of my knickers were hand me downs. I will happily dress myself and my kids in secondhand but I’m choosy about what I buy because even though money is tight I have more choice than my mother had.

It’s a shame a few people have decided to miss the point of the thread and be dicks about it, but not surprising

Once bought a pair of those checked trousers from Boden for ds1, passed them down to ds 2.

@LunaTheCat

My bit of poshness was once flying business class - bloody luxury. It wasn’t the fancy wine or the food but just being able to lie down on a long haul flight. When I am on my death bed I shall think of the luxury of walking through the air bridge and turning left.

For me too it was walking down the airbridge and turning into the first door, the business class entrance, I was a bit disappointed that there was no-one else coming down the airbridge though!

I love this thread

I'd just started working as cabin crew for an airtours, I was called off standby to position to Belfast by BA and stay at the Hilton to work on a flight the next day from Belfast. I had never flown on BA or stayed at a hotel in the UK (I'd stayed at Sol type hotels in Spain with my parents etc). On the flight they gave me a scone with a little clotted cream pot and jam. I felt like a million dollars walking into that hotel. I'll never forget that feeling.

Also to those saying that posh people don't use the word posh: I went to boarding school, I had a pony, my parents house has its own postcode and people in my family have titles. I'M POSH POSH POSH POSH POSH.

literally just proved the point about how not posh you are

@leopardprintpants

All the talk of chinos reminded me of John Finnemore’s Red Trousers song!! It’s how posh men recognise each other from afar. 👍🏻

@pleasedonttextmyman

Also to those saying that posh people don't use the word posh: I went to boarding school, I had a pony, my parents house has its own postcode and people in my family have titles. I'M POSH POSH POSH POSH POSH.

literally just proved the point about how not posh you are

HOW??

Surely that is Posh? If that's how then.. what is?! 😂😂

If that's not**

It's the confusion between "posh" and "rich" which is amusing.

Buying my children clothes. My mother was a good sewer and usedto make our clothes bcos she cldnt afford shop bought.

The song!!
LyndaSnellsSniff
Almost as good as Donald Where’s Your Troosers 😂😂

My husband is rather posh, actually. And he giggles at my non-posh ways, and I giggle at his posh ways. And then I enjoy the fact that I no longer am so skint. Though strictly speaking we are merely upper-middle class 😉
I wore a salmon pink winter Jacket that cost £10 in the sale on FatFace for 5 years when the kids were little.
To now be able to buy shoes and jackets, just actually being able to buy clothes when we need them, makes me feel very good and posh inside.
Anyway, thanks for this lovely thread.
I miss going to bookshops and cafe’s! My daughter has ASD so it is not possible. Now I will make a point of taking her brothers when she is next on respite care. We shall feel well posh then!

My manky 15 year old car got totalled and I replaced it with a 7 year old gleaming curvacious not quite but almost sportscar with moonroof, leather, Bose speakers etc and feel very cool and posh indeed.

I felt very posh the first time I shopped for myself and bought Hellman's mayonnaise. We had salad cream at home.

And then at uni where I met DP (nearly 40 years and counting!) and the first time I invited him to a meal I'd cooked I bought a bottle of Mateus Rose. My parents weren't drinkers, so I knew nothing about wine but boy did I feel posh!

I felt very posh buying my children matching Boden coats! The illusion of poshness is a little ruined though because I bought them massive so that they would last for two years!

The poshest I ever felt was when I was going to a meeting with a hotel and they obviously really wanted the meeting to go well. They sent a driver in a posh black suit to the airport. He had a little sign with my name on it and when I walked up to him he took my bags and escorted me to the car. I don't know the makes of cars but it was gleaming black and silver. He opened the door of the car for me, then went round to load my bags into the back. I felt like a film star!

By the way I am in no way posh or even comfortable. I don't care if someone else thinks that this is actually very noveau riche or if they actually do it all the time and that I'm "sad" for feeling excited by it. It was a fantastic experience that makes me smile when I think of it.

Mine was the first day I stood at a bus stop on the way to work, freshly showered, wearing clothes that fitted me, comfortable shoes and when it started to snow, I zipped my jacket up fully, adjusted my scarf and knew that I'd have no problems paying for my ticket there and if the service was cancelled in the evening, I'd be able to afford a cab home to a warm house with heating, hot water and food in the fridge.

I'd never had that feeling before. Of being comfortable.

“Feedingthebirds1

I felt very posh the first time I shopped for myself and bought Hellman's mayonnaise. We had salad cream at home.

And then at uni where I met DP (nearly 40 years and counting!) and the first time I invited him to a meal I'd cooked I bought a bottle of Mateus Rose. My parents weren't drinkers, so I knew nothing about wine but boy did I feel posh!“

Isn’t Matteus Rose just made for that special feeling, FeedingtheBirds! It may not exactly be fine wine, but it had its own spell.

All the ‘real’ posh people getting offended by us commoners/ working class. Thinking we actually feel posh when we can afford Waitrose/Boden or splash out on coffee shop treats. Shock horror some people can’t afford these things regularly or even ever….

@doorornottodoor

I think some people are missing the point! It’s all to do with upbringing. Some things feel very extravagant and “posh” if you weren’t able to do them as a child. It’s very personal. So please stop with all the judgemental comments

Agreed. It wasn't an invitation for people to comment on if something is posh or not. It's people giving examples of times they have felt posh. For me, I have a bit of a brain malfunction sometimes when I am staying in a 5 star hotel and I'm asked if I want help with my bags or even buying coffee in pret like its nothing. My big moment was having drinks opposite the leaning tower of Pisa and remembering being a child visiting, us having gone on a camping holiday, and not being able to have a drink in any cafe as it was too expensive. Felt like I'd made it.

On the subject of parents, my very working class dad thinks me go paying £7/8 for a glass of wine or a cocktail when out is very extravagant to be honest. He is probably right tbh but I don’t do it all the time! Some of the places we go to he would consider very posh ( they aren’t, just nice bars rather than an old fashioned pub)

It’s subjective to how you are raised and what you experience in life I guess. But the thread is supposed to be lighthearted. Hate how some on mumsnet have to try and bring the op/responders down.

My daughter's clothes are all m&s, Jojo bebe maman, Little Bird, Frugi, Mini Boden, Monsoon. That to me as a girl bought up on hand me downs ( boys hand me downs at that, from my cousins who were 18 years older than me) was such an extravagance.
However they have all been bought off Ebay with tags and work out no more expensive than buying from the supermarket.

@Spinningaround21

All the ‘real’ posh people getting offended by us commoners/ working class. Thinking we actually feel posh when we can afford Waitrose/Boden or splash out on coffee shop treats. Shock horror some people can’t afford these things regularly or even ever….

the only one "offended" is you who needs to use the word 'offended".

Being posh has nothing to do with money. Tamara Ecclestone is not posh. A broke Prince Harry will forever be posh 🤷

@thebabessavedme when I was little we lived in a house with a hatch from the kitchen to the living room (definitely not posh ). When we moved we didn't have a hatch (the pantry was in the way) so my mother insisted we decant the milk into a jug - bought specifically for the purpose - because we could no longer hide the bottle on the hatch if someone called round unexpectedly.

The new house was twice as old, twice as big, and twice as unattached, but it was the milk bottle / jug thing that made us feel we had gone up in the world!

(Should note that in later years my mother told this tale in the spirit of this thread. We were aspirational lower-middle, but retained a sense of humour...)

When S1 was about eight he was asked to suggest a celebration menu - I have no idea why, I just remember it being in the church hall so possibly the midweek Kidzone thing we went to for a while. He came up not only with croissants and smoked salmon but also quail (cue me explaining to an amused church member that it was grandad's 70th recently and Uncle is a keen cook)

Tamara Ecclestone is not gentry.

To many people, Tamara Ecclestone is posh.