The Barbour jacket apparently a symbol of the right!

This won’t please my undergraduate DGD who comandeered my twenty year old one recently and would be appalled to be labelled right wing. Obviously something else to hold against Nigel F!

That is hilarious and ridiculous at the same time 🤣🤣🤣

I wonder what brand is a symbol of the left?

It used to be Gannex.

When I first moved to a rural setting, nearly 40 years ago, I bought a Barbour jacket. I never replaced it. It didn't keep out the cold or the wind without layers of stuff underneath.

I didn't replace it. I'd never buy another one..

Perhaps they just don't keep lefties very warm 😁

The point is, will it stop people from wearing Barbour, now?
I can see how it might have been adopted by people who want to appear a particular way.

I have a picture of me somewhere wearing my Barbour jacket and a tweed stalker hat (I have never stalked anything or anyone I hasten to add). I’ve always been fond of country clothing. Let the idiots on X think what they will.. S*d them!

I go to a fair number of horse based events locally. I don't recall when I last noticed anyone wearing a Barbour. At this time of year it tends to be well insulated puffa type coats and jackets...

So they're clearly lefties too...

(I do know someone who shoots. I'll have to ask him if he's got one...)

Business people in pristine Barbour jackets are so obviously trying too hard, whatever party they are supporting. I expect that Community Clothing is the order of the day for the eco conscious Left.

Casdon

Business people in pristine Barbour jackets are so obviously trying too hard, whatever party they are supporting. I expect that Community Clothing is the order of the day for the eco conscious Left.

Unfortunately like anything a Barbour jacket needs to be worn in!
I have some embarrassingly pristine wellingtons, my last pair were nearly 20 years old and had been repaired.
So it’s not trying too hard it’s just life.

I don’t have a Barbour jacket.
Does that make me left wing?

Definitely not madalene. I’ve got one, and I’m not remotely Tory. They don’t take long to wear in if you use them as they are intended.

Didn't we all wear them in the 80s? Mine lasted a few years and never replaced. I've never voted Tory.

Sago

In a viral tweet on X, seen more than two million times, one person wrote: 'The Barbour jacket is fast becoming a new overt symbol for the right', with another adding: 'Barbour Jackets are clearly the new uniform for a new reign of terror.'

I think this is hilarious, I have owned a series of Barbour jackets and coats over the past 40 years, my husband has numerous jackets from the brand as do both my sons, my daughter not any more…….perhaps she is leaning to the left!
I have always viewed them as good value practical and classic clothing, we have had ours reconditioned so sustainable too!

So if the Barbour jacket is a sartorial symbol of the right then what will the left be sporting this winter?

Duffel coats

Well if they’re now a badge of the left, I’ll steer clear thank you. I’m quite happy with my feather and down snuggly coat, it keeps me lovely and warm. I just wore it this afternoon to go for my walk in the local park.

Are parks left wing or right wing these days?

I’ve never owned a Barbour or wanted to come to that.I don’t have the country lifestyle for one.

Oooh Oreo, I used to have a duffel coat.
Did you say that’s for the left wingers?
I’ll never keep up with this political fashion, my brain’s too old for it.

They aren’t a symbol of anything madalene, in their rightful role they are a functional coat worn by country dwellers, designed to keep the rain and mud off, and the thorns out. They aren’t right, left or centre.

Well it is isn’t it 🤣🤣🤣

Casdon

They aren’t a symbol of anything madalene, in their rightful role they are a functional coat worn by country dwellers, designed to keep the rain and mud off, and the thorns out. They aren’t right, left or centre.

What a relief.
I’d never be able to cope with it all.

madalene

Oooh Oreo, I used to have a duffel coat.
Did you say that’s for the left wingers?
I’ll never keep up with this political fashion, my brain’s too old for it.

🤭I had a dark green one years ago ( duffel) nice and warm but like you I prefer a padded coat, light and so toasty warm.

Casdon

They aren’t a symbol of anything madalene, in their rightful role they are a functional coat worn by country dwellers, designed to keep the rain and mud off, and the thorns out. They aren’t right, left or centre.

Exactly. As one of said country dwellers, I had one for many years - if you look after them and rewax them regularly, they last forever.

After DH died, there was enough Barbour stuff to stock a small shop! All went to the local Hospice Shop.

I’ll stick to my reefer jacket, thank you….😁

By the way, I was out with DD2’s dog earlier - he was wearing his Barbour coat! I wore my Barbour jacket, scarf, socks and pink wellies.
Barbour is a local brand, worn by many from all walks of life.