does your LO wear jeans to the park, softplay etc?

[MommyJogger]

those are dread locks. Dread locks aren't braided.

Whaaa? Then what is it called when you braid all your hair into tiny braids?

 

[AngelUK]

Braided locks I think?

 

[felix555]

I get more a hippie vibe than a chav vibe from you. Don't destroy the imagine in my head I do picture you with dreads and hemp clothing ..... oh and ruberoos

haha! As long as those two are mutually exclusive, I'm okay then. I've actually always wanted to do this to my hair, but I just don't have the balls.
My husband says they're technically dreads (they don't look braided to me though?), but I've always called it potato hair (because the Colombian student I was in class with the first time I saw it said that it looked like they were growing potatoes out of their head).

Those are what I mean and that's pretty spot on to how I picture you

 

[.Mrs.B.]

Here is my little chav



And this is my daughter dressed by daddy modelling the trousers over sleepsuit look.

 

[felix555]

Braided locks I think?

I'd say braids?

 

[morri]

Neither chaos nor guidos exist in NZ, which is just as well as I am having trouble negotiating the rules of the stereotypes!

Being proud of wearing designer sportswear is chavvy, but presumably being proud of wearing other designer brands doesnt make you chavvy? Sportswear in itself is not chavvy but worn in combination with certain other items, it means you yell at people in the park? Or is it about poorer people trying to look like they have more money than they do?

It's hard enough to get two kids out of the house to the playground as it is, thank goodness I don't need to transition them to another outfit in order to avoid people stereotyping us as well!

go with those groups that drink cheap booze all night in parks, near booze shops, rev up their cars go on illegal car races , hang around in one spot with cheap ghettoboosters /car stereos, pestering people ,looking badly groomed while sporting obvious brand clothes and plastic bling. burberry in the uk got a victim of chav culture lol.

 

[JessyG]

Braided locks I think?

I'd say braids?

Are we talking cornrows here?

 

[sue_88]

Where I grew up CHAV stood for:

Council Housed And Violent....CHAV. The clothes were just a bit of an image thing.

What I don't really like is people say "I don't dress my kid to go to a fashion show" when they don't wear things like "comfy" joggers. That's just as rude as me saying joggers are ugly on anyone, which I do think but generally keep to myself.

I don't notice in town what people are wearing anyway, I don't particularly care about other people's children or what they wear. I just know what I am happy with to dress my child in.

 

[felix555]

Braided locks I think?

I'd say braids?

Are we talking cornrows here?

No more like loose braids.

This thread is very educational to me

 

[morri]

afaik chav as council house etc is just a backronym.

The German equivalent is somewhere between proll(from proletarian) and assi(antisocial)

 

[lau86]

Here's both my boys in their joggers. I genuinely don't understand why anyone would have a negative/ positive reaction to them, they're just kiddies trousers!

 

[catty]

All these pictures look completely fine to me. The image of joggers I have in my head are baggy grey trousers with elastic round the ankles. The more pics that are shown the more I think I might like them....

 

[AngelofTroy]

All these pictures look completely fine to me. The image of joggers I have in my head are baggy grey trousers with elastic round the ankles. The more pics that are shown the more I think I might like them....

I agree!

 

[lau86]

My are these from next, they are quite fitted not baggy at all

 

[jd83]

Braided locks I think?

I'd say braids?

Are we talking cornrows here?

No more like loose braids.

This thread is very educational to me

Seriously! I swear I learn so many worldly things on here

 

[misspriss]

My are these from next, they are quite fitted not baggy at all

DS has pants like these, less the elastic the elastic at the bottom!

He lives in them.

 

[MommyJogger]

I forced my sick child to play "Halloween" with me today. I dressed him as a chav, sporting that Tigger brand shirt boi! How'd we do?

 

[AngelofTroy]

I forced my sick child to play "Halloween" with me today. I dressed him as a chav, sporting that Tigger brand shirt boi! How'd we do?

he's too cute!! He couldn't pull off 'chav' if he was driving a souped up fiesta with under car lighting and goldie lookin chain blaring from the speakers!!

 

[lau86]

I forced my sick child to play "Halloween" with me today. I dressed him as a chav, sporting that Tigger brand shirt boi! How'd we do?

Awwww! Adorable

 

[felix555]

I forced my sick child to play "Halloween" with me today. I dressed him as a chav, sporting that Tigger brand shirt boi! How'd we do?

Fail. He looks almost "Oxford rowing team" here which is complete opposite of Chav.

He's gorgeous though!