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Cheers boss, I'll keep an eye out in the January sale.
I have a wicked pair of elasticated waist cords from there already 😀
One of my exes is a clothing designer and reckoned that kind of "smart loungewear" clobber had got massive over Covid.
Yep, even the folks who protest that they’re anti fashion or are “immune to advertising” are still signalling their fashion choices to everyone around them.
yes, I find these people gravitate to one of two looks.
“Millets half price sale”; or “CAMRA real ale bore”.
It’s just as much of a tribe as people who make their chosen football team or musical taste their entire personality.
I still get whatever I can fit into at as close to affordable price. Cags are not a fashion thing, especially splattered with glaur.
If I get a choice - in futility I try to find one with a decent zip -I'm looking at you North Face.
You know it’s reached the North Face stage when both your manager at work and and the chavvy kids on the train in are wearing it.
A few weeks ago I spotted my son wearing my TNF hoodie I bought about a decade ago, if not more. Still in good nic and significantly better quality material than the TNF hoodie he has now. He was proudly stroking the embroidered logo saying "They don't make em like this anymore dad, they are all iron on logos"<br /><br />
Now I find out we are both chavs or road workers or something. A sad day.
Which itself is a fascinating topic (well, I find it fascinating, but then it was part of my studies at university), because it’s all tied in with human need to identify with particular groups or ‘tribes’.
Yeah i was very surprised to learn how much I relied on all this stuff. I had internalised all the social codes (and, indeed, value judgements). As a scrawny long haired kid who used to get grief in the streets from tossers, I looked out for all the details - a couple of skinheads wearing t-shirts with a small Bathing Ape logo? Probably harmless stoners and MoWax fans. Same, but the small logos are Ben Sherman or Henri Lloyd? Possibly pissed up Lads, the same type who've given me a kicking in the past. Maybe cross the road.
It was only when I moved to Prague in my mid-20s, and I was in a totally different culture where all these tiny signifiers meant nothing at all, so my compass was broken, that I really discovered how important it was to have a sense of it all. I felt lost! And unsafe!
how did i know that Fjallraven would be used as an example?
(it's one of the preferred brands of the fighty-Sheffield-United lot)
fwiw, most of my clothes come from : Sainsburys, and or MnS.
If Cotton Traders and Peter Storm would remove the logos from their clothing I reckon they would sell a shed load more.
Peter Storm
Regatta has already rehabilitated its image pretty well. I'm sure PS could do the same if they had a bit of a marketing budget.
I couldn't give a stuff, I'll continue wearing my NF, Rab, Arcteryx. I don't think this grey bearded 70 year old will be mistaken for a roadman/chav/ned or whatever.
I don’t think this grey bearded 70 year old will be mistaken for a roadman/chav/ned or whatever.
What you sayin' cuz? Man needs more food to earn some Ps innit.
Oh sorry, I thought you were someone else.
Hugo Boss used to do a good line in black uniforms, didn't they?
I do find civvies wearing military gear odd, but that’s my bias and I own that.
Someone suggested a Buffalo Belay jacket to me.
The first words on the web page: "A light, short compact jacket used by Military, Police, Mountain Rescue Teams and outdoor professionals." Top results of places selling it are all military gear, prepper, and camouflage stores. People on YouTube showing and reviewing are also that hobbyist type.
I've no problem with the quoted occupations but the product's pitching at and popularity with those wannabes puts me right off.
Someone suggested a Buffalo Belay jacket to me.
When I joined in the 90's it was the Gucci kit de jour as the military kit market wasn't as abundant as it is now. It was a popular layer as the army was still issuing what we called the Chinese fighting jacket, a quilted jacket liner you wore over your shirt and under your jacket.
The buffalo and the other bit of warmers kit, the Norwegian sweater actually worked and gain credibility as products from.defemc usage.
Buffalo capitalised on their popularity and took the usage by the military as credibility of the product; these days you'd struggle to find a soldier wearing one as there are ample other offerings in a plethora of camouflage patterns.
I would liken them to the modern UKSF/Para/Commando tags and ethos many try and use though with kit that is simply military adjacent.
Hugo Boss used to do a good line in black uniforms, didn’t they?
And grey. And blue.
