Clothes with logos

If I understand your first email correctly, Redolly, you have Aspergers syndrome and you have logically identified an interesting point. Mentioning brands in posts is advertising the product concerned. It is a recommendation not a paid advert but the result is probably simiar. Where is the dividing line?

Has anyone actually tried to put a nine year old boy in a plain t-shirt recently?

Jings! Have you?

No way! He'd be sure to overpower me......

You know what I mean!

He would laugh.

Thery've all got to have something on their t-shirts. The weirder and more aggresive looking, the better.

Sad, but true!

I'm not sure my 7-year-old GS notices what he's wearing! Unlike his sister.

Annobel has he not got a big brother to keep him in line?

Children's clothes are fun these days, because the technology is there.

No, he has a big sister and a bigger half sister, both very style conscious, if you can call black leggings with Ugg boots and raggy denim shorts a style.

My daughter bought me a tee shirt as a Mother's Day present many years ago. It pictured a distraught looking women, hair standing on end, bulging nightie, bent knees and a hospital bed. The slogan was "I've changed my mind…" I really did love that and wore it when I was present at the birth of her first son ten years ago, much to the amusement of the midwife. Sadly, it is no more.

He'll soon learn then Annobel.

I think 7-year-old boys have better things to do than bother with what they are wearing - like climbing trees, playing out with their mates, getting filthy... why not?

It's not a new problem. When absentdaughter was in primary school (twenty something years ago) she suddenly announced that she was going to be a snowflake in the Christmas play and would need a costume the following week. I walked the length of Oxford Street three or four times searching for a plain white tee shirt and skirt with the intention of simply sewing on some pearlised sequins to create a sparkle. Nothing doing – absolute zilch. In the end I finished up making a sort of ballet tutu (with sequins) on a borrowed sewing machine and with great difficulty. The gathering thread on the skirt broke umpteen times so the skirt started looking like a dish rag. On my "one last go", it held and the costume in question came to be known in our family as the snowfrock flake.

And even worse are the logo laden Tshirts my SiL wears. And I won't be seen dead in anything with a brand label on the outside. What a hypocrite! - just thought of a couple of sporty things I wear with logos on them.

Boys undershirts in plain white from-Asda-is this advertising-are sufficiently unisex for dying for school activities or self embellishment by their owners-fabric pens last quite a while and keep little people occupied. Parents dont always like the drawings-I sometimes think the parents like to think the childrens clothes are an extension of themselves. Once saw a girl about 7 0r 8 wearing a baseball cap with b** written on it. Made my jaw drop-I hope the mother thought twice after my loud aside to my friend and her reply

Oh they can definitely do that as well Annobel.

Nice plain one here

this one's quite expressive!

There are other t-shirt suppliers. And I haven't got shares in Boden!

Yes, but £11 (their size) for a plain t-shirt (when I have to buy for twins) is a bit too much, I think.....

I wear plain T-shirts all the time (well - they don't need ironing like shirts do!) I buy them on-line from Lands' End ( www.landsend.co.uk/ ). Lots of colours, mine all have pockets... and no logos or slogans. If people don't want to hear from me, they certainly don't want to hear from my underwear...

I also do not like company logos or TV and film characters. Its hard to buy some kids stuff without. I have a fierce and grumpy old woman's dislike of Brand Names, Gap does it all the time, why should I pay them to do their advertising for them? But then I am clearly not of a generation where the brand names were important.
Are those devoted brand wearers so insecure they have to show off with their lables. Good design does not need a lable to "prove it" what is wrong with with anonymous quality.

Woolworths started this years ago, and I thought then that I should be paid to do their advertising!

I like plain tshirts but have a few with things on, not labels but things I happen to like

I like mainly plain, no logos, but recently bought a very quite an expensive T shirt which has on the front, very tastefully written, "I am who I am"