You know that yearning you've had for Victorian workhouse fashion?

[squoosh]

Well yearn no more as someone has created workhouse inspired clothes for you!

www.workhouse-england.co.uk/index.html

Look at this gorgeous 'Workhouse Garment'. Doesn't it jauntily evoke despair and grinding poverty? A snip at £220.

I mean it's great it's all handmade in the made in the UK n'all but surely this must be where hipster fashion jumps the shark. Or jumps the pauper.

That's what happens when you extrapolate the flat cap trend out to it its logical conclusion....

Hmm not imprssed with poverty as a 'look'. But I'm also a sucker for beautifully tailored clothes although these are so badly photographed it's hard to see them properly. That men's tweed overcoat might actually be just what I'm after for winter - I just need one in a women's size.

I also love hipster coffee. I'm on my second and it's not even 9 O'clock. So um...

I don't think it's intended to be what people wore in workhouses because in an actual workhouse you wore a uniform and your own clothes were taken away.

But it's just called that, innit, because they're based in a former workhouse.

I quite like the clothes (though as Floisme says why would you photograph them so you can hardly see them if you are selling them online - esp when they're so expensive?). They remind me quite a lot of Toast's men's clothing line. Similar style and prices.

I like the picture of the smoking children.

Love the way the models all look so miserable and 'workhouse'.

It's like looking at a Catherine Cookson film set!

I'm rather taken with the Dickens Cord Trousers Drab meself! Normally £235, but an absolute bargain at just £145!

Yeah this is a misfire as branding really. Like calling a children's line Romanian Orphanage. I suspect they don't really understand what a workhouse was and what it signified to people at the time. Or at least I hope so, because the alternative that they do know is quite gross.

Pretentious shite.

Shame these pretentious hipster asses don't study what life was like for the poor unfortunates who suffered in these places. Perhaps they can bring out a new line for prisoner of war chic, refugee chic, even poverty chic. Their inspiration could be endless .....

Its a bit "Derelicte" isn't it?

Wow. Just wow.

Can't see the clothes - photography so sloppy (I mean that - a good photographer could surely have got the requisite gloom and 'atmosphere' plus also a bit more definition). But what really makes me laugh are the models - I don't wish to offend anyone but we appear to have Jesus of Turin Shroud vintage plus a couple of passing convicts and geography teachers.

squishysquirmy, it sure is.

My. He's got big hands, ain't he?

Oh my dear lord :o. What fresh hell is this?

I really really want DH to wear this to the office. It would go down really well, I'm almost sure.

No... surely those are theatrical costumes?? They look very like those worn by Credence Barebone
in Fantastic Beasts and where to find them.

I've just come back to this thread and it looks like I wandered off mid sentence yesterday Sorry - I have no idea what I was about to say.

I still think that, leaving aside the marketing and the dreadful photography, the clothes themselves look as if they could be nice. I'm not sure what it is some of you are looking at but me, I'm seeing tweed overcoats and jackets, herringbone trousers and cotton drill shirts, all of which I'd like for myself if they fitted me.

As for the prices; if as they maintain, the fabrics are from the UK and the garments are made here by skilled tailors and pattern makers, all earning a fair wage .... well that's what they're going to cost.

Dear God, the photography really is beyond abysmal. Any half decent amateur could have done them a much better job.

Totally agree with Floisme - if you take away the stupid name and the rubbish photography, the clothes themselves look nice. Ds2 was glancing over my shoulder and said there were a couple of jackets and a shirt that he really liked, but he'd wear them with jeans and mix them up, rather than all together.
It does look a bit like Toast stuff, or some of the All saints menswear - I like it and might buy ds something for Christmas...it's a bit pricey for day to day.

I agree with Floisme and Fabellini. Some of the garments are lovely and that's what quality fabric and British manufacturing cost. If you want cheap clothes choose polyester made in a sweatshop. We can laugh at the styling but it's no more ridiculous than any other fashion company, just more u usual. We're inured to the weird way clothes are styled.

As I said upthread if you look at the website it's clear they don't think this is what people wore and it's not poverty chic. It's called Workhouse because the building used to be one. You know, like those city centre pubs called Bank. People really do love a cheap sneer.

Yes, we get thread after thread complaining about poor quality on the high street but I think we've forgotten - or are are too young to remember - how much good quality, made-in-the-UK clothes really cost. I bought mostly second hand until I was well into my 30s because new clothes were so expensive.

(But if they really want to sell online, they need to pay for decent photography as well as craftsmanship.)

I find that really fucking offensive.

Are you talking about their concept/marketing or my post?

We have stripped it all back to discover what the name workhouse evokes - for most people the name workhouse evokes fear, poverty, families separated, abuse and endless misery. NOT £200 jackets. So I stand by my comment (or was it a cheap sneer?) that it is pretentious shite.

The clothes look like the kind of stuff Sigur Ros wore back in the day.

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