what a bunch of toss

[egb_hibs]

apparently middle aged casuals are now 'lad nouveaus' - cos some lifestyle journo wankstain has discovered oipolloi.com and realised there's a more dignified way of turning out than dressing like richard hell crossed with busted.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/lif...cle3653790.ece

i'm not a violent man, but this sort of thing makes me want to place a zx500 in somebodies mush.

[1875]

What a lot of shite.

The final listing does it for me...

NEW LAD
Drink: Stella - Reasonable suggestion
Snack: Frazzles - Fcuk off
Author: Irvine Welsh Reasonable suggestion
Sport: Football Reasonable suggestion
Bonding activity: PlayStation Bollocks
Stamping ground: North West North West Where? Lanarkshire, Benbecula?
Magazine: Loaded Reasonable suggestion
Performance: Oasis at Wembley Possibly Oasis somewhere?
R&R: Shopping for clothes and records on a Saturday afternoon How could he be, he is at the football you fudster.
Repeated talking point: Sex on drugs I never stopped talking about it, did you?

LAD NOUVEAU
Drink: Single malt Sweet jesus
Snack: Keene’s cheddar Aww FFS
Author: Francis Wheen Wheen was educated at Copthorne Prep School, Harrow School and Royal Holloway College, University of London. At Harrow he was a contemporary of Mark Thatcher who has been a recurring subject of his journalism. A must read then.
Sport: UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) Fcuk right off
Bonding activity: Taking the boy to Bannatyne’s No, really, fcuk off
Stamping ground: North West ohh dear
Magazine: The Economist (skips hard bits) Patronising prick
Performance: Alex James on Question Time I still dream of it
R&R: Hunting down stuff online One of two with some credence
Repeated talking point: Impending divorce Second of two with some credence, although age would be the main factor, not being a Lad effin Nouveau

[Jack]

Aimed at the London market its hardly surprising a fashion supplement of a London newspaper comes out with such crap. Targeted and the middle age divorcees who have suddenly rediscovered freedom and want[?]/ need help to ‘update’ their wardrobe.

The novelist who wrote this crap has to do something to justify his feebies!

Edit: Actually having looked again at the 5 photos its pretty much the same look as my dad had when he flew the nest and moved down to London in the 1980s.

[whiskas]

I think Chris from Liverpool has hit the nail on the head:

"So Lad Nouveau dresses in chav wear (Ben Sherman, Stone Island, Fred Perry) and has the interests and preoccupations of a Nick Hornby character.
Pass thanks"

I personally don't see the attraction in spending a fortune on boxy, unattractive clothes that make you look like a chav tbh.
The whole article reads like an advertisement Oi Polloi too- I wonder how much they paid the journalist.

[hibadelic]

Sounds like the Winter(?) range of Stone Island will be about as tasteful as it's clientele.

Silk is treated to look ultramodern (they've called it “liquid silk”), and camouflage patterns created using mud and hand-painting. Rivetti has also employed the talents of the next generation. Aitor Throup, a Bolton chap readily described as “the future of menswear”, used a fur-cutting machine to piece together the segments of his Puffa jacket.

[alexi]

Why do pretentious journalists always have to create genres or labels for groups of people?? Do they sit around in pubs (or more likely wine bars) inventing new tags to hang on people.

some of the middle aged casuals you see knocking about these days would never fit into the Lad Nouveau category.More like retro-casual or middle aged dressers (wait for it-youll see those tags appear in print soon)

[Stu]

Originally Posted by 1875

NEW LAD
Stamping ground: North West North West Where? Lanarkshire, Benbecula?

You have to remember mate that acknowledging anywhere north of Watford is a major happening with these sorts of guys. To them the 'North West' (or the North East) will always be some place full of whippet fanciers, pigeon keepers and 'satanic mills'.

The North West, Liverpool and Manchester I'm taking he's referring to in particular, as we know was a huge hotbed for the original casuals. (He probably read it in a book somewhere.)

[CAPY888]

Whats wrong with Frazzles like??? Timeless classic flavoured potato snack - favoured by the masses. And nowadays you only get them in Service stations and petrol stations - Perfect when away

[AndyM]

I agree with 1875 and egb on this - a load of old bollocks the whole thing. A mate of mine who lives in London buys into this sort of crap though - he used to live biblically by The Face magazine and still mourns its passing.

Recently I gave him a lift to the airport and when he saw what was in the car's CD changer (The Killers, Marvin Gaye, Metallica, The Clash, The Specials) he absolutely freaked out on me
'You can't do this!!! You're mixing music genres!!!'

Get on the plane you muppet was my response.

[©stretch]

This **** looks like he got dressed in the dark.

[Burbank Lilywhite]

I need help classifying myself then. What would I be called for regularly wearing this stuff. In my neck of the woods (albeit a half neck of woods mind you) its called the Regular Guy Look.

[alexi]

thought the look in Cali was......

[Burbank Lilywhite]

Not in the heart of the San Pornando Valley.

[psychocandy]

nice boots mate

ive shopped in oipolloi for a couple of years now but definatly wouldn't call myself a lad, a nouvea lad or anything else. That article says a whole lot about nothing, the descriptions of the new stone island collection are trite at best as well.

i will however say that the north-west (particularly liverpool) are home to some very dapper chaps indeed