# Brit Dopers, what are Chavs and why do they wear Burberry? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 13, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dopers-what-are-chavs-and-why-do-they-wear-burberry/384037 "2006-12-13T23:37:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dopers-what-are-chavs-and-why-do-they-wear-burberry/384037/21 "2006-12-17T15:56:16Z")
[QUOTE=slaphead] Well, I’m sure any brand is cheap-ish if you manage to find an outlet store selling all the stuff they couldn’t pass on at full price. I remember poking my nose into the Burberry shop outside Harrods - some of their stuff without the check-of-death is actually quite nice, but when I saw the price tags I had to leave before I burst into hysterical laughter. £150 for a leather wallet? Dang. [/QUOTE] I dunno, I was at an outlet mall in Virginia a 10 days ago, and there was a Burberry store there. Even in the outlet store they were selling **vinyl** purses with the Burberry tartan for well over $100 US. The standard scarf was about the same. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2006, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dopers-what-are-chavs-and-why-do-they-wear-burberry/384037/22 "2006-12-17T20:13:35Z")
The lower end Chavs tend to be life long benefits claiments,leaving school with few if any qualifications, have their first child at a young age (so as to get assigned a council house). Are usually petty criminals,minor drug dealing,shoplifting,breaking into cars and burgulary being the most common . Deliberately exaggerate their local accent to sound “hard” and wear very tasteful cheap tracksuit bottoms as the males are seen trundling pushchairs(strollers I believe in American)around their sink estates as a demonstration of their fertility if not their manhood . ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dopers-what-are-chavs-and-why-do-they-wear-burberry/384037/23 "2006-12-18T01:02:49Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] I cracked up the first time I saw a picture of a group of chavs. I have never seen a goofier looking group of hooligans in my life. I would love to see what would happen if you dropped a load of them down in Compton (Boys N the Hood). [/QUOTE] Speaking as a Brit I suspect that they would die in short order unless they found some senior citizens to pick on. ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dopers-what-are-chavs-and-why-do-they-wear-burberry/384037/24 "2006-12-18T12:48:16Z")
[QUOTE=slaphead] Well, I’m sure any brand is cheap-ish if you manage to find an outlet store selling all the stuff they couldn’t pass on at full price. I remember poking my nose into the Burberry shop outside Harrods - some of their stuff without the check-of-death is actually quite nice, but when I saw the price tags I had to leave before I burst into hysterical laughter. £150 for a leather wallet? Dang. [/QUOTE] Dunno, maybe the woman who posted the rant [about how cheaply dressed some Chavs were] buys really really expensive clothes off the catwalks of Milan? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brit-dopers-what-are-chavs-and-why-do-they-wear-burberry/384037.md?page=1)