A bit council (Vol 3)

[Meridius]

A lot of mentions of coffee shops, no coffee shops are council, council types arent stopping off for a quick coffee and cake thats a poncey middle class pastime. The council types are in Greggs or McDonalds breakfasts or one of those jacket potato stands, they bloody love jacket potatoes, washed down with a big coke.

[The Don of Croy]

Sad news.

The only flat roof pub in Royal Tunbridge Wells is to close.

Adieu, The Sir Alf Ramsey -



http://www.kentlive.news/tunbridge-wells-pub-poise...

The price of progress. Sighs.

[schmunk]

Meridius said:

A lot of mentions of coffee shops, no coffee shops are council.

Council types drink tea. Or full fat Coke. Or Red Bull. Or knock-off Red Bull. Or Strong Cider. Or small bottles of spirits.

Not coffee.

[KarlMac]

shakotan said:

Superdry is particularly council because most of the wearers think they are wearing a Japanese brand.

I hate this. Some brands I actually like the clothes they do (like superdry) but they get ruined by chavs.

[alorotom]

KarlMac said:

I hate this. Some brands I actually like the clothes they do (like superdry) but they get ruined by chavs.

I had this with Evisu, Von Dutch, Kenzo, Stone Island, Y3, Paul and Shark - the list just goes on and on

[V8mate]

schmunk said:

Meridius said:

A lot of mentions of coffee shops, no coffee shops are council.

Council types drink tea. Or full fat Coke. Or Red Bull. Or knock-off Red Bull. Or Strong Cider. Or small bottles of spirits.

Not coffee.

Costa is full of aspirational council. The types who think that having 'positivity' messages painted on their walls at home makes them appear well-educated.

[motco]

KarlMac said:

shakotan said:

Superdry is particularly council because most of the wearers think they are wearing a Japanese brand.

I hate this. Some brands I actually like the clothes they do (like superdry) but they get ruined by chavs.

Avoid wearing clothes with a free advert on the outside and the problem disappears!

[CharlesdeGaulle]

motco said:

KarlMac said:

shakotan said:

Superdry is particularly council because most of the wearers think they are wearing a Japanese brand.

I hate this. Some brands I actually like the clothes they do (like superdry) but they get ruined by chavs.

Avoid wearing clothes with a free advert on the outside and the problem disappears!

Exactly. Ostentatiously branded clothing. Uber-Council.

[J4CKO]

Meridius said:

A lot of mentions of coffee shops, no coffee shops are council, council types arent stopping off for a quick coffee and cake thats a poncey middle class pastime. The council types are in Greggs or McDonalds breakfasts or one of those jacket potato stands, they bloody love jacket potatoes, washed down with a big coke.

Would agree on McDonalds, stopped in a services on the M4 the other day, the McDonalds queue was very council, there was a bloke who was the fattest I have ever seen, looking a little guilty, but determined to get his Maccy D's on, must have been 40 plus stone, in fact most of the queue were morbidly obese, sounds snobbish and I am not perfect, but it just shows what a mess we are getting ourselves into as a nation, it isnt funny, its sad.

[nikaiyo2]

alorotom said:

KarlMac said:

I hate this. Some brands I actually like the clothes they do (like superdry) but they get ruined by chavs.

I had this with Evisu, Von Dutch, Kenzo, Stone Island, Y3, Paul and Shark - the list just goes on and on

When did Evisu become chav? Voi Jeans are VERY council with a similar logo are you mixing them up?

I don't get the whole Superdry thing with Japanese Racing there is no connection. I did once buy 3 Yashio Factory/ Endless Power T shirts from a jap parts importer, only to find Japanese sizes are slightly smaller than ours

[standards]

Pieman68 said:

(I must add that I went along to support my daughter, as I also did when she had her first holy communion - when asked why I didn't sing any of the hymns I just told them that I wasn't singing praises to something I didn't believe in as I wasn't a hypocrite)

As a card carrying C of E type who stands at the front in the afrorementioned dress on an amateur basis I'd say that was fair enough.

[hyphen]

nikaiyo2 said:

alorotom said:

KarlMac said:

I hate this. Some brands I actually like the clothes they do (like superdry) but they get ruined by chavs.

I had this with Evisu, Von Dutch, Kenzo, Stone Island, Y3, Paul and Shark - the list just goes on and on

When did Evisu become chav? Voi Jeans are VERY council with a similar logo are you mixing them up?

I don't get the whole Superdry thing with Japanese Racing there is no connection. I did once buy 3 Yashio Factory/ Endless Power T shirts from a jap parts importer, only to find Japanese sizes are slightly smaller than ours

Evisu still around? Thought they peaked and died in late 90's when they became too popular.

[ReaperCushions]

hyphen said:

nikaiyo2 said:

alorotom said:

KarlMac said:

I hate this. Some brands I actually like the clothes they do (like superdry) but they get ruined by chavs.

I had this with Evisu, Von Dutch, Kenzo, Stone Island, Y3, Paul and Shark - the list just goes on and on

When did Evisu become chav? Voi Jeans are VERY council with a similar logo are you mixing them up?

I don't get the whole Superdry thing with Japanese Racing there is no connection. I did once buy 3 Yashio Factory/ Endless Power T shirts from a jap parts importer, only to find Japanese sizes are slightly smaller than ours

Evisu still around? Thought they peaked and died in late 90's when they became too popular.

Likewise.. I thought they were long gone. They were pretty chavvy back in the day as well if I remember. Rich chav of course, not your sports direct types.

[Meridius]

Evisu is still around in Japan though I havent seen anyone wear it here for well over 10 years. True Religion took over as the chav jean brand for a while but thats going now too.

[alorotom]

nikaiyo2 said:

When did Evisu become chav? Voi Jeans are VERY council with a similar logo are you mixing them up?

Lmao, definitely never owned anything Voi - Uber chav from the outset ... Evisu headed to the dark side about 10-12yrs ago and hasn’t reallly ever recovered but does still exist albeit in a much smaller way ... there is a boutique near me that still stocks it

[idiotgap]

Councilors I see aren't wearing Evisu. I learned a lesson once... bought a ticket to a concert in Kentish Town from a tout I noticed was wearing Armani jeans, turned out the concert hadn't sold out and I could have bought one cheaper on the door! D'oh!

I'm fascinated by the brands with big brash branding but are, and always were, a bit rubbish.
Nickelson, Tokyo Laundry, Crosshatch

Most folk who want to have an obvious name on their clothes are, I imagine, trying to say, "look at me! I am cool as (or possibly even cooler than that) and can afford these splendid threads". Going for a brand which has very low cache surely ruins the message.

[SpeckledJim]

idiotgap said:

Councilors I see aren't wearing Evisu. I learned a lesson once... bought a ticket to a concert in Kentish Town from a tout I noticed was wearing Armani jeans, turned out the concert hadn't sold out and I could have bought one cheaper on the door! D'oh!

What was the lesson? Don't trust touts, don't trust touts in Armani jeans, or don't trust anybody in Armani jeans?

Should we be told what else he was wearing?

Was he wearing anything else?

[Cneci]

I used to wear G-Star Raw jeans (the ones with patches on the knees, kind of like a jean cargo trouser) in my teens.

God knows what you guys think of those!

[Europa1]

Is managing to spend more than 45 minutes in a KFC council?

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/local-news/kf...

[DRFC1879]

Surely the ultimate in council branding has to be Henleys. Christ, that stuff is horrendous. Another from back in the day was Teddy Smith. Is that stuff still around?

Firetrap used to be decent gear available in House of Fraser and the like but is now under the bingo wing of Mike Ashley so it's had a spectacular fall from grace.

When I was a teen in the mid-late 90's Fred Perry was spiralling into chav but it seems to be back on a more respectable footing of retro cool these days. They owe Shane Meadows one for that. Ben Sherman is failing at the same mission.