Next Clothes
Oct 3rd 2007 | 11:04 am
#31
Gutter Gob!!
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 13,098
From: Perth
Re: Next Clothes
NEXT!!! Quality!! Remember Next was started by a market trader in Leicester and the quality hasn't improved since those days! it's mass produced naff that you will see your next door neighbour wearing.
Why do people still feel the need to cling onto this??
Next is crap - why do people feel they have to dress their kids 'trendy'? are the kids really bothered about what they wear? ...were they ever bothered about what they wore or was it the materialistic parent that fed them this crap that made them believe they must look a certain way?
I used to have kids come into nursery wearing their 'best next' clothes and the parents would then moan if the child got a mark on them from playing and learning
it makes me cringe!!
To go to the other side of the world and still feel withdrawals for 'trendy' kids clothes (or adults clothes for that matter) is wrong in my eyes!
Kids are kids!! - individuals!! not fashion accessories!!
and yes, i have been to aus before and when i was there, there were plently of nice enough clothes for kids and adults.
Threads like this start the scaremongerers off, from the UK. They start to believe they will never be able to buy decent clothes again.
I even heard one comment from someone saying 'they only go up to a ladies size 14'...i mean, what do all the larger aussie ladies wear
Each to their own but it's a load of crap imo!
Why do people still feel the need to cling onto this??
Next is crap - why do people feel they have to dress their kids 'trendy'? are the kids really bothered about what they wear? ...were they ever bothered about what they wore or was it the materialistic parent that fed them this crap that made them believe they must look a certain way?
I used to have kids come into nursery wearing their 'best next' clothes and the parents would then moan if the child got a mark on them from playing and learning
it makes me cringe!!To go to the other side of the world and still feel withdrawals for 'trendy' kids clothes (or adults clothes for that matter) is wrong in my eyes!
Kids are kids!! - individuals!! not fashion accessories!!
and yes, i have been to aus before and when i was there, there were plently of nice enough clothes for kids and adults.
Threads like this start the scaremongerers off, from the UK. They start to believe they will never be able to buy decent clothes again.
I even heard one comment from someone saying 'they only go up to a ladies size 14'...i mean, what do all the larger aussie ladies wear
Each to their own but it's a load of crap imo!
Last edited by northernbird; Oct 3rd 2007 at 11:10 am.
Oct 3rd 2007 | 11:06 am
#32
Gutter Gob!!
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 13,098
From: Perth
Re: Next Clothes
. My 5 yo and I were in Pumkin Patch yesterday looking for a white cardi for her and she practically begged me to buy her a pink jacket they had. Even my 3 yo has definate ideas of what she likes (not she she always gets her own way lol)
Oct 3rd 2007 | 12:31 pm
#33
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 4,922
From: Asia Pacific
Re: Next Clothes
Wow - another Next thread and so soon...lol
Next = quality....nope. Next = uniformity. You can see every bugger and thier friend wearing Next a mile off. You can tell poms getting off the plane wearing Next from head to foot a mile away.
We had friends staying with us and we had to giggle as they must have bought everything from Next. We were going to have a sweapstake on how many number and flag patches were sewn on the combined wardrobe.
Dont get hung up on a single brand which we dont have here. There are heaps of decent clothes shops and a lot you wont ever find in the UK. But as a previous poster pointed out the suns going to destroy them anyhow over time and nobody gives a crap what you look like anyway. At least you wont be looking like everyone else.....
Next = quality....nope. Next = uniformity. You can see every bugger and thier friend wearing Next a mile off. You can tell poms getting off the plane wearing Next from head to foot a mile away.
We had friends staying with us and we had to giggle as they must have bought everything from Next. We were going to have a sweapstake on how many number and flag patches were sewn on the combined wardrobe.
Dont get hung up on a single brand which we dont have here. There are heaps of decent clothes shops and a lot you wont ever find in the UK. But as a previous poster pointed out the suns going to destroy them anyhow over time and nobody gives a crap what you look like anyway. At least you wont be looking like everyone else.....
Oct 3rd 2007 | 12:48 pm
#35
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 4,922
From: Asia Pacific
Re: Next Clothes
Oct 3rd 2007 | 12:58 pm
#36
Joined: Jan 2003
Posts: 13,233
Re: Next Clothes
what's wrong with a hessian sack and a length of baler twine?
Oct 3rd 2007 | 3:26 pm
#37
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 1,560
Re: Next Clothes
well we could also do with a primark over here, maybe you can get the same sort of clothes in australia but there is no way you can get primark prices!! they are the clothes you can send you kids to daycare in and not care if they got a mark on them as they only cost a quid!!
Oct 3rd 2007 | 3:33 pm
#38
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 1,560
Re: Next Clothes
NEXT!!! Quality!! Remember Next was started by a market trader in Leicester and the quality hasn't improved since those days! it's mass produced naff that you will see your next door neighbour wearing.
Why do people still feel the need to cling onto this??
Next is crap - why do people feel they have to dress their kids 'trendy'? are the kids really bothered about what they wear? ...were they ever bothered about what they wore or was it the materialistic parent that fed them this crap that made them believe they must look a certain way?
I used to have kids come into nursery wearing their 'best next' clothes and the parents would then moan if the child got a mark on them from playing and learning it makes me cringe!!
To go to the other side of the world and still feel withdrawals for 'trendy' kids clothes (or adults clothes for that matter) is wrong in my eyes!
Kids are kids!! - individuals!! not fashion accessories!!
and yes, i have been to aus before and when i was there, there were plently of nice enough clothes for kids and adults.
Threads like this start the scaremongerers off, from the UK. They start to believe they will never be able to buy decent clothes again.
I even heard one comment from someone saying 'they only go up to a ladies size 14'...i mean, what do all the larger aussie ladies wear
Each to their own but it's a load of crap imo!
Why do people still feel the need to cling onto this??
Next is crap - why do people feel they have to dress their kids 'trendy'? are the kids really bothered about what they wear? ...were they ever bothered about what they wore or was it the materialistic parent that fed them this crap that made them believe they must look a certain way?
I used to have kids come into nursery wearing their 'best next' clothes and the parents would then moan if the child got a mark on them from playing and learning
it makes me cringe!!To go to the other side of the world and still feel withdrawals for 'trendy' kids clothes (or adults clothes for that matter) is wrong in my eyes!
Kids are kids!! - individuals!! not fashion accessories!!
and yes, i have been to aus before and when i was there, there were plently of nice enough clothes for kids and adults.
Threads like this start the scaremongerers off, from the UK. They start to believe they will never be able to buy decent clothes again.
I even heard one comment from someone saying 'they only go up to a ladies size 14'...i mean, what do all the larger aussie ladies wear
Each to their own but it's a load of crap imo!
Oct 3rd 2007 | 5:02 pm
#40
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Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 1,130
From: Melbourne.
Re: Next Clothes
I'm still buying my girls BNWT Next, Gap, Monsoon and M&S clothes from Ebay in the Uk. But only ever buy from the sellers, who charge a couple of quid for P&P.
As some really do take the P*** over their shipping costs.
As some really do take the P*** over their shipping costs.
Oct 3rd 2007 | 8:26 pm
#41
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Posts: 2,322
Re: Next Clothes
spoken by someone who isn't even living here yet. Wait until you have to shop for yourself and kids year round and you will find out quite quickly that the quality of clothing (unless you spend a stack) is pretty poor. Nothing wrong with hankering for stuff from back home, I regularly send parcels of cherry ripes and twisties to my friend in Peterborough.
What?
Is it not obvious in my post that i don't spend my money on NEXT clothing??
If i don't shop there now, while i'm in the UK why on earth would i 'hanker around for it' in aus
i'll have better things to do with my time thanks
Oct 3rd 2007 | 8:29 pm
#42
Gutter Gob!!
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 13,098
From: Perth
Re: Next Clothes
I can only imagine the kind of place you shop.
