Why do people wear Jack Wills clothing?

[BareSolid]

http://www.jackwills.com/Default.aspx

This is an English retailer which sells clothes at outrageous prices and the stuff they sell isn't even good, and yet I see loads of the idiots round the University wearing this shite. I don't understand the appeal whatever. Surely if they had the money like this, they would splash out on an actual GOOD English retailer for their clothing???

 

[BareSolid]

And these are also the dickheads you see with their shirt collars turned up to the skies as well.

 

[Ich_Dien]

Isn't it largely girls who wear this?

 

[BareSolid]

Yes lots of girls wear them but the 'chaps' like to engage in a bit of 'bantar' whilst donning their faux rugby shirts etc.

 

[chroMe]

hooray henry wannabes for the meekly styled

 

[Giovanni]

good for sports when at school/uni. a friend of mine wears j wills all the time and looks like a child

 

[Steven Aver]

Looks to be the equivelent of an American Eagle outfitters here in the states.

 

[radicaldog]

English middle class kids at Oxbridge-reject universities like to pretend they're Ivy League students, so they buy that stuff because it looks preppy to them. It is in fact engineered precisely to appeal to the vague and misguided notions of 'preppy' that somehow made their way into their undiscerning sensibility, probably via some third-rate American movies or TV series.

 

[ZackyBoy]

I'm looking through the website... and although the prices are higher than mall brands they aren't outrageous at all... none of this stuff is appealing to me but it's not like it's so expensive you're baffled when you see people wearing it... it seems like the perfect price range for kids with no financial sense, lots of disposable income, and who want to look wealthy without actually shelling out for it.

 

[amr]

Lol at the 'Oxbridge-reject' Universities comment. Any you had in mind?

I agree that JW is vastly over priced (though their sales are frequent) and is largely worn by posers. They do have a small number of alright items, and as long as people aren't blindly dressed head to toe in their products, it can look good.

 

[BareSolid]

I was quite offended by the 'oxbridge reject' comment. Not all of our parents have enough money to buy us through public school, you know.

 

[dfagdfsh]

is this a joke? I wish this is what was 'douchey' in America. it's basically ralph lauren.

god help you when you see ed hardy

 

[amr]

I was quite offended at the notion of only going to another top-tier university because of a rejection from Oxbridge. I've never heard that comment from someone at a "good" university, either.

 

[BareSolid]

Originally Posted by amr

I was quite offended at the notion of only going to another top-tier university because of a rejection from Oxbridge. I've never heard that comment from someone at a "good" university, either.

I do hear a lot of whispers of this sort of snobbery around Durham, it's quite irritating.

 

[amr]

Originally Posted by BareSolid

I do hear a lot of whispers of this sort of snobbery around Durham, it's quite irritating.

You go to Durham too?