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Noticed a few times recently that chavs/assorted underclasses etc have been wearing what is surely the last bastion of upper class discreet branded clothing.
I can only assume that it's being worn by someone on one of these reality/TOWIE? type shows?I know when chavs started to wear Burberry they v nearly bankrupted the brand,and previous to that Calvin Klein virtualy stopped selling their brand in the uk for a period.The type the chavs are wearing though is sort of emblazoned all over the quilted jacket(rather un-barbour)
Lets just say the types i saw wearing these didn't look like they were off for aweekend of country pursuits.
While it's amusing to think of the looks on some toffs faces when they see some "chantelle" wearing a Barbour jacket with tracky bottoms,surely it'sjust plain wrong!
I can only assume that it's being worn by someone on one of these reality/TOWIE? type shows?I know when chavs started to wear Burberry they v nearly bankrupted the brand,and previous to that Calvin Klein virtualy stopped selling their brand in the uk for a period.The type the chavs are wearing though is sort of emblazoned all over the quilted jacket(rather un-barbour)
Lets just say the types i saw wearing these didn't look like they were off for aweekend of country pursuits.
While it's amusing to think of the looks on some toffs faces when they see some "chantelle" wearing a Barbour jacket with tracky bottoms,surely it'sjust plain wrong!
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f--k me mate u must be living in the jungle, Essex chave been donnnning barb for ages mate.
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I hate chavs.....problem is we're on our 3rd generation of chav, and they breed like rabbits
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They seem to go particularly well with a staffy
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I think people who wear fur around their hoods(snorkels/parkers) are out of fashion if you ask me
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They think they're Country Cads
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They like to buy expensive stuff like range rovers
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Essex is in the countryside mate
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apart from south Essex ,bit built up around Basildon way
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Spose they'l do to barbour what they did to Range Rovers.Once the epitomy of discreet money now a hideous "look at me i have money/im a wanna be gangsta"
In fairness ive seen the lower orders in Barbour for a fair bit in London town but not so much in the north.The most bizzare thing i ever saw in London was a man (presumably hetrosexual) wearing Ugg boots with a quilted barbour jacket just last summer |
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Yesterday in Manchester you could say Barbour was as good as "ubiquitous" on chavs,can only presume the fakes are now also heavily flooding the market.
My 15yr old daughter also tells me that Chavs have ruined brands like Jack Wills and Hollister the last yr as well. Not a brand wh0re myself but find Ralph Lauren are always high quality and seem to last for ever and a brand which chavs have neve rreally connected with. |
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One thing to thank Chavs for i guess.
I do believe the current Chav movement will go down in history as a sort of anti-order similar to the Luddites .  I expect one day there will be a Chav political party  |
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obviously hi jacked by Chav attired Intelligentsia
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Even the timeless classic brands are pretty much defenceless against the chavs now Vivvy. It's a sort of lower-class version of 'short-selling' vulnerable companies.
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Stella took a hit and they've never recovered - bl00dy awful cheap quality beer masquerading as quality -deserve all they get
Pimms ,Waitrose and Ascot races next on the hit list |
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Tesco paying cash in hand to Chavs to go shopping in Waitrose - i can see it now
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only brands you want are vintage.
Modern stuff is made in china, with slave labour, same product has asda logo on tuesdays |
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The football casuals adopted the quilted barbour jacket a season or so ago and it has now dropped down to chav level.
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You're not far wrong brendan,much of the branded stuff is made side by side in the huge factories in China and the far east,though anyone thinking a Primark polo shirt is "just the same" as say a Ralph is a little wide of the mark.That said most mid market brands are virtually same quality and fabric as the the high enders.
Waitrose is still thankfully Chav free as is John Lewis(same i know but still,small mercies and all that) I'm no fan of toffs at all but there's a hilarious irony about the lower orders(often the lowest of the benefit filth) wanting to emulate upper class landowners Charles will be SEETHING if he visits a sink estate and they are all attired as if going out with the Beaufort!Makes ya proud to be British,gawd bless em |
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hard to spot the difference between the lower and upper class now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAqLyvdtGtI |
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King and queens have always set the style of the courtiers and the rest. Just shows what a bunch of mugs the public have always been
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Some of the Polo stuff looks a bit tacky to me, the polo shirts with the huge pony logo. Not quite as bad as Superdry and Jack Wills though.
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its all made for a tenner at most and sold for as much as mugs will pay.
exclusivity by paying what others wont for a shirt. Nothing to do with quality or fashion. Just people proud of being mugged off  |
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Lets just say the types i saw wearing these didn't look like they were off for aweekend of country pursuits.
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I can't help but think it's a bad development and not a bit disconcerting. Barbours were for the point to point brigade originally. The chavs should stick to what they know best, TK Max and the like. I believe they do an evening wear section in certain city centres. Liverpool, Birmingham, Newcastle and the likes.
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You looked at the price of a decent Barbour ffs
can't beat the old Thornproof |
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One thing worse than chavs dressing like toffs and thats toffs dressing like their poor/hip. now that really is embarrassing
"poor kids dressing like they're rich (mugs).....rich kids dressing like they're poor (oh my god).... white kids talking like they're black....... copyright of libertines.com |
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thei r= they're *
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jamesdean 21 Nov 11 19:45
could not make it up.... |
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You can buy them from China and then shift them, same with a lot of branded goods.
Them hair straighteners were a quick buck two year back. |
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Living in the countryside I have been a Barbour wearer for some 35+ years and am appalled at this chav trend which has been noticeable
over the last 4 years or so . First used were the International jacket followed by the Quilted jacket . My last purchase was a Messenger Bag, now i dare not leave the house with it . What am i to do about my Man-bag, Disillusioned of Derbyshire |
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Those quilted ones are ok if you are about 5ft and 8 stone, once you hit 6ft and 18 stone they are bloody shocking
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What am i to do about my Man-bag,
Carry your balls in something else.... |
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Ive got a very nice carbon international jacket the mrs bought me in York, can feel the glare of chavs when they see me in the street while they wear fakes.
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Not a brand wh0re myself but find Ralph Lauren are always high quality and seem to last for ever and a brand which chavs have neve rreally connected with.
wha??? Ralph has been uber chavvy in the South since time began. |
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Please tell me these oiks are not combining their Barbours with moleskin trousers and a stout pair of brogues.
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DISGUSTING CLASS PREJUDICE
USE MUGS SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF URSELVES |
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From your username I assume that you want us to believe that you're not exactly representative of the Upper Middle Class country pursuits brigade? Nonetheless, as one of the few forumites to be able to spell 'prejudice' correctly, I'm also assuming that you're one of those kids who try and hide their expensive education, through the use of the prevailing 'street' patois.
Nice try Giles. |
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Far too many chaps masquerading as chit chat chavs imvho
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While no brand is 100% safe from the ever growing chav underclass,i'm with BV when it comes to Ralph Lauren not being ruined by the lower orders.Perhaps its the slightly old classic/golfing image.Though you do see Jordan-esque permatanned types wearng RL on occasion darn sarf but not these hideous types that recently adopted Barbour.
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