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Fashionistas - what does Jack Wills say to you?

86 replies

Quattrocento · 07/02/2010 22:16

Have been dragged in there by DD. Cards are hurting in consequence.

I have reached my own conclusions on this shop but I want to know what knowledgeable mners think of it.

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GetOrfMoiLand · 07/02/2010 22:55

DD has got a top which says Mont Blanc Ski Team or something.

Odd.

pointydog · 07/02/2010 22:55

Teenagers should save up their measly allowance and then go and blow it at top shop or river island, somewhere normal like that.

dexter73 · 07/02/2010 22:56

I know. The mind boggles. I doubt she even knows what a fresher is!

GetOrfMoiLand · 07/02/2010 22:57

Quattro - if your dd is anything like mine, then the carrier bag as well will be treasured for a couple of weeks (she used it for PE bag as some kind of swank symbol).

Just goes to show things don't change much. River Island carrier bags circa 1992 were my pride and joy

Heathcliffscathy · 07/02/2010 22:57

[sets rocking chair a rockin']....oh teenagers today...what are they like [sucks false teeth]

GetOrfMoiLand · 07/02/2010 22:58
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Quattrocento · 07/02/2010 23:02

Tapestry bags

Camden Market circa 1985

Price £5.

Bargain

Now it seems that Aubin and Wills want parents to splash £200 on a shite bag in an ugly shape.

Demented.

I'm not doing it again. I'm going to send her to Camden Market with £25 (allowing for inflation, generous me) and tell her to kit herself out.

Good plan, no?

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LynetteScavo · 07/02/2010 23:09

That thread in ggirls link is bloody surely made up...please tell me there aren't actually people who go on like that.

pointydog · 07/02/2010 23:11

absolutely the right thing to do.

mimsum · 07/02/2010 23:15

ds got £100 for his birthday last week and wants to spend it in Jack Wills ... he's 13 and preppy and thinks he's very stylish

he'll probably come out with a pair of boxer shorts ...

Heathcliffscathy · 07/02/2010 23:16

half a pair!

Swedey · 07/02/2010 23:16

Quattro - Did you buy her the whole look?

Swedey · 07/02/2010 23:25

My sons are rugby playing public schoolboys and they can't stand Jack Wills or Hackers or any of that rugger bugger meets East Coast Preppy sheeet.

DS1 (almost 18) lives in shorts (he has only one pair of casual trousers) and various old t-shirts when he's not in his school suit.

DS2 (14) lives in shorts or jeans (cheap ones from M&S) and t-shirts - pref plain - under thin navy funnel neck fleece - as he's cold blooded on his top half when he's not in his school uni.

And they think they're COOL.

TheFallenMadonna · 07/02/2010 23:31

Ah swedes - your DS may think he wants to be a doctor, but his vocation is clarly that of PE teacher...

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Quattrocento · 07/02/2010 23:40

The whole look would have meant bankruptcy Swedes. Whilst I am prepared to take certain investment risks, this doesn't look as though it would be a banker for the future. I have no aspirations for DD to marry a brainless rah.

Although, now we're on the subject of suitable liaisons, how old are your DSs? I do like the sound of the M&S look ...

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MarineIguana · 07/02/2010 23:47

A lot of it is just awfully, ridiculously poncy and preppy and way overpriced.

BUT... you can get properly long tops there with long arms which as a tall and long-bodied person are my holy grail - and they are great quality and wash very well. I also like their woolly socks. I go in the sale and the prices are then kind of comparable to white stuff etc.

Feel like a twat while in there mind.

FuriousGeorge · 07/02/2010 23:58

Its what teenagers wear to Point to Points.Yuk.
My maxim is not to wear anything with logos on.I am not an advert.

Swedey · 08/02/2010 08:01

TheFallenMadonna. - at PE teacher.

Meglet · 08/02/2010 08:20

I was going to investigate jack wills (for me ) until I read this thread. Didn't realise it was so expensive!

I will stick to abercrombie, dad always gets me their clothes when he goes to visit family in the states. A&F does wash well IMO, got some t-shirts that are 7 years old which have been worn to death and still look good.

Bonsoir · 08/02/2010 17:53

My DSSs will wear shirts (proper ones with long sleeves and collars that need ironing) since Abercrombie & Fitch started flogging them.

Priceless.

traceybath · 08/02/2010 18:21

Its sooo expensive - was going to buy niece something for christmas but only thing in my budget was a pair of knickers.

I'd have probably loved it though if I were 17.

Quattro - denim mini and tweed jacket sounds quite cool to me. Very off duty model according to grazia etc .

Earthstar · 08/02/2010 19:01

Its for insecure and somewhat rah teens who daren't do "fashion" - its a kind of safe and unchallenging uniform.

It is insecurity that will drive teens and their parents to pay the high prices.

Bonsoir · 08/02/2010 19:02

It's the 501s/Lacoste shirt/Gucci loafers of today...

Cammelia · 08/02/2010 19:08

Definitely for 12/13 year olds.
The shape fits dd perfectly, she's very tall and skinny. We only buy in the sale though and even then only the stuff with lots of money off.

salvolatile · 08/02/2010 19:09

I'm with swedey (think I might have her dss ) as my public school ed kids loathe Jack Wills as too rah for words... ds1 lives in shorts or diesel jeans that look dirty and ds2 wears handmedown levi's and plain tops (but think's he's Johnny Cash )....dd3 used to love it but now at nearly 15 won't touch it as everything has to be Top Shop.., so think JWs mainly 14 and under now