It's official. Yacht club committee types are unfashionable.

[flaming]

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/07/31/its-official-red-trousers-fashion-faux-pas/

Don't think I've ever seen a pair outside an "exclusive" yacht club!

 

[prv]

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/07/31/its-official-red-trousers-fashion-faux-pas/

Don't think I've ever seen a pair outside an "exclusive" yacht club!

Slightly surprisingly, I noticed several different kinds of red or burgundy trousers among the small selection of menswear at my local Sainsburys. Then again, it was part of a sale display - perhaps nobody wanted to buy them!

Pete

 

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I must really go and buy a pair.

 

[Vara]

That survey is rubbish, and I've got another pair on the boat!

 

[Mirror Painter]

The poshest person I know has a pair. I have seen him in them but forgot about that when on another, later occasion, I made a comment about 'idiot rich people clogging up Marlborough in their red trousers'. That was last year but he confided in me recently that he hasn't worn them since.

 

[Lakesailor]

That survey is rubbish, and I've got another pair on the boat!

Are you also claiming to be fashionable?

 

[Vara]

Are you also claiming to be fashionable?

Don't be ridiculous.

 

[Lakesailor]

Then carry on.

 

[Mirror Painter]

Not sure a chap with such a disorderly collection of hangers should have red trousers at all.

 

[Woodlouse]

Not sure a chap with such a disorderly collection of hangers should have red trousers at all.

I think a chap who hangs un-ironed trousers has bigger problems than just the fact they're red.

 

[Mirror Painter]

I think a chap who hangs un-ironed trousers has bigger problems than just the fact they're red.

I was too disgusted to mention it. But you are of course correct. Time to sack his tailor and his maid.

 

[Gwylan]

http://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/07/31/its-official-red-trousers-fashion-faux-pas/

Don't think I've ever seen a pair outside an "exclusive" yacht club!

In our house they are known as 'Sloane Sailors' and known to be favoured by Dutchmen who are equally unwelcome in these parts.

 

[epervier]

I was too disgusted to mention it. But you are of course correct. Time to sack his tailor and his maid.

Never mind his tailor and his maid! his valet needs a dammed good thrashing! leaving belts in trouser loops indeed!

 

[Mudisox]

Wardrobe certainly not an antique, handed down over the generations, probably had to buy his house too.

 

[Lakesailor]

At least he had the sense not to photograph those with elastic waistbands.

 

[Vara]

At least he had the sense not to photograph those with elastic waistbands.

That is a vile slur, I own very few trousers with elasticated waists.

 

[armchairsailor]

I was surprised to see how low tw@t was down the list of "word that first comes into your head...". Certainly my first thought...

 

[Vara]

I was surprised to see how low tw@t was down the list of "word that first comes into your head...". Certainly my first thought...

You really don't understand, do you?

 

[armchairsailor]

You really don't understand, do you?

I'm am unashamedly a grockle, but then that lot are mainly wannabes... I know a few old money/ nobility folks, and they'd not be seen dead in the things too. My old landlord (the Moncrieffe of Moncrieff) would normally be seen traipsing along in kilt, wellies and a St Lucia t-shirt. Definitely not red trews.

 

[yodave]

I have noticed this trend. Muted salmon red trousers are moving towards the likes of Barbour jackets as an established 'landed gentry' fashion statement.

Not sure I'd wear them, but I'm okay with them. At the end of the day it doesn't make you a good person ...or a bad person. It's a brand statement along the same lines as a Manchester United shirt.

Me? I'd rather be sailing than shopping.