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If you're 45+ do you wear tops/jumpers with slogans on the front ?

208 replies

knickerbockerglorywithcream · 30/10/2025 09:53

not necessarily the brand name, but a slogan of any kind.

I am wondering why anyone would want to wear something with any irrelevant slogan written on it e.g. Mint Velvet currently have a jumper with 'The Hamptons' written on the front. There is also one with thew words 'The Studio' in large print across the front. Just why and who wears these ?

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jan2310 · 30/10/2025 16:46

I only have 1 but I like it and wear it. I’m well over 45. Didn’t realise that was the age limit.

Yousay55 · 30/10/2025 17:24

I don’t have many with a logo or writing on, but I would happily wear one.
I think that hopefully by the time you’re 40, you really shouldn’t care what others think of what you wear. Wear what you love with confidence.

CocoRats · 30/10/2025 17:24

Band T-shirts and a couple of bits on sports wear (purely for the gym and not chosen for the branding).

BlueEyedBogWitch · 30/10/2025 17:27

evilharpy · 30/10/2025 16:14

I really want this one!

I have a few, favourites include Smash the Patriarchy and a Mean Girls quote. Also have a Bella Freud one that says Oh Wow and a few yoga-related ones from Eden Ashram. Would never wear anything related to kindness or other "nice" behaviours/feminine traits.

I think it might be Spark, on second thoughts.

BlueEyedBogWitch · 30/10/2025 17:28

I also have a few Eden Ashram ones. I love words, they’re my job and my passion, and so they’re my favourite pattern.

I’m 51.

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 30/10/2025 17:41

I would love a ‘Northern’ jumper. I’ve got a couple of slogan T-shirts from a local really cool company, plus some band shirts. I like them.

Wouldn’t wear random French phrases or that ‘Kind’ bollocks from Marks.

ShinyAppleDreamingOfTheSea · 30/10/2025 17:47

HundredMilesAnHour · 30/10/2025 10:15

Just remembered that I have a couple of Katherine Hamnett slogan T-shirts too, including the Wham classic Choose Life.

Can’t remember the brand but I also have a black cashmere jumper with ‘Ca Plane Pour Moi’ written in white. I used to wear it a lot 6-7 years ago so it’s pretty much trashed now and has retired to the back of my drawers. I used to live in France and had been through a bad time but turned the corner so the message resonated with me and it was a lovely soft sweater.

If I wear a slogan, which is usually very very occasionally, it’s because the slogan resonates with me or reminds me of something meaningful.

I don’t normally wear clothes with brands or other slogans on - but I do like the sound of your Ca Plane pour Moi sweater!

UpMyself · 30/10/2025 17:48

I have bought two deliberately for the slogan, but they were charity ones, and I liked the message and the style.

amibeingaknob · 30/10/2025 17:51

Im 51 and I do. I think it looks cool. I wear fitted band t-shirts (blondie, nirvana, beatles - only stuff I actually love). With jeans, or dungarees. I also wear t-shirts that Ive bought from womens groups to support them with things like 'feminist' and 'woman up' and 'woman'. I like it. Makes me feel badass. hehe.

LeftieRightsHoarder · 30/10/2025 18:08

I live in T-shirts, so I go around advertising events and places I've been to, political or philosophical slogans, organisations I support, bands, bikes and other things I love. Some show jokes, bits of poetry, pictures or just things I like the look of.

I bought some of my favourites in the 1970s and 80s. They're a bit tight these days, but I keep them as historical artefacts.

They are neatly stored by theme: one drawer for politics (on the left side, of course) and philosophy; another for art and literature; another for nature and environmental causes etc.

Dontcallmescarface · 30/10/2025 18:15

Just why and who wears these ?

This 60 year old, because she wants to.

HTH

FurForksSake · 30/10/2025 18:15

I have a pink strong girls club and a mama sweatshirt, but both are pretty ancient and rarely worn.

Right now I’m wearing a lounge set which is about four sizes too big and has “hinch” on embroidered on the fucking top. I’ve had it years and it’s comfortable but had I have noticed the slogan / brand I’d not have bought it. It must have been a next clearance bargain.

i hate the feel of a lot of the T-shirts that have logos on, and if I wanted one I’d make my own using my eye watering cricut.

HelenaTranscart · 30/10/2025 18:23

I've a full wardrobe of clothes with 'woman = adult human female' on them. Be the billboard!

ViciousCurrentBun · 30/10/2025 18:27

I have some gaming t.shirts.

My favourite has the slogan ‘When society falls, we rise’, The Division.

I just couldn’t care less what anyone wears.

EconomyClassRockstar · 30/10/2025 18:41

I have entire shelves of hoodies and sweatshirts with place names on and I've been to them all. I also have the college sweatshirts of where my kids went and the town we have a house in. I only wear them for exercising, running errands and slobbing around at home in but I love them! I wouldn't ever buy a mass produced random sweatshirt from a High St store though. I mean, the Mint Velvet The Hamptons one doesn't even make sense. Which town in the Hamptons?

Giggorata · 30/10/2025 18:45

I've got the "Adult Human Female" one but before that hadn't worn clothes with writing for years.
Oh, apart from some hi top sock trainers that scream MOSCHINO on the heel, which I'm thinking of sharpie-ing out.

LeftieRightsHoarder · 30/10/2025 19:20

HelenaTranscart · 30/10/2025 18:23

I've a full wardrobe of clothes with 'woman = adult human female' on them. Be the billboard!

Yay!

Mummadeze · 30/10/2025 20:41

Not really but now I’ve read this thread am going to buy some!

LBOCS2 · 30/10/2025 20:51

I’m currently sitting in my car waiting to collect a teen from the station wearing a jumper which says “Dramione is my Roman Empire”. I’m 40 and can’t see myself growing out of it in the next 5 years tbh. I wear T-shirts with writing on them too 🤷🏻‍♀️ one of my favourites says “Middle woman of a certain age” across the front.

henlake7 · 30/10/2025 21:02

Over 50 here and I have tons of jumpers with slogans on (mainly from Joanie). Also plenty of sweatshirts with some sort of graphic.
As for t shirts, the only plain ones I own are for wearing to bed!

I think I must be the opposite to alot of mumsnetters....plain, 'tasteful' clothes make me feel like i should be collecting my pension!😁
I'm comfy in slogans, pictures and patterns and I rock them so it's all good!

SouthernNights59 · 30/10/2025 21:07

I have tees and sweatshirts with words on the front, in fact I've got to the stage where I don't like plain tees any more. I'm 66 and couldn't care two figs what anyone else thinks.

Hatty65 · 30/10/2025 21:11

I've got a Scooby Doo t shirt - does that count?

FancyCatSlave · 30/10/2025 21:16

I’m 47 and have a couple, but it’s not really my thing.

I got 2 cheap jumpers from Asda this year, one has 1978 on it and the other has Love on it. I mostly knock about the house in them
though. I liked the colours and the fit and they were very inexpensive. They will only last a year though as will bobble terribly so hardly a big commitment piece.

I also have a Superdry hoody that has something on it (can’t recall what). It’s lovely and soft.

I don’t seek out a slogan though.

SpiralSister · 30/10/2025 21:36

I have band t shirts, and also a top with ‘currently unavailable’ on it. Makes me laugh every time I look at it.

Well stricken in years - late fifties.

PGmicstand · 30/10/2025 21:43

I'm headed for 60. If I see an item of clothing I like, I wear it. Couldn't care less about what other people think.