Why UK has got so many Chavs?

Question

UK is one of the major exporters of fashion to the world, but why so many youngsters in the UK wear those cheap clothes? why do they do that? I don't think clothes are expensive in the UK. why all wear baseball caps? adidas trainers? cheap jewelery? sports outfit......and they are all photocopies of each other.

I've seen such outfits in Poland and Russia too. but not in Germany.

Answer 1

Don't you worry, we have a fair share over here in Australia- bloody h**l, you can send them all here (sort of like a rubbish collection), right, and then we'll export them all to canberra (where all our politicians gather)- they'll never know the difference..

Answer 2

Because English people all have an unwritten pact to maintain the class system. And the lower classes honour their side of the bargain by being deliberately un-classy; it's their way of agreeing not to try and be "better than they are".

Seriously though.... other countries have their equivalents. In Australia we have "bogans" - they wear ugg boots, leggings, lumberjack shirts, really short shorts and trashy or beer-stained singlets to prove that they're the true blue Aussie working class..  

In Russia, the nouveau riche (or "New Russians") are notorious for their expensive but decidedly tasteless fashion sense.

In Malaysia and Singapore there are the "ah beng" and "ah lian", who constitute the main market for cheap, cutesy knick-knacks and fluffy toys you see hanging off Asian cell-phones and rear-view mirrors.

  

Answer 3

It's the mentality, the look.  It says 'I'm not overly bright but I can hit you really hard' and 'I didn't take advantage of my education so I'll fall in with the group' and 'I shoplift when I'm bored'.

Sorry to anyone who dresses like that and doesn't fit those categories but I live in Moston in North Manchester and being well educated, polite, quiet and respectful gets you nowhere.  They'll threaten you just for walking past them.