Why do all scumbags dress the same?

Downlinz

The white sneakers, tracksuit bottoms tight on the bottom and a zip-up jacket. Why do people willingly choose to dress like this when they know 90% of the people who see them will identify themselves as scumbags without knowing the first thing about them?

Is there some sort of pride being labelled as an undesirable/trouble-maker or do they just simply not care what people think?
Either way why do they all have the same fashion trends when people in other social brackets dress so differently from one another?

Micky Dolenz

Uniform?

ejmaztec

I'd never noticed.

RichieC

It's like a uniform and they wear it with pride.

the socks tucked into the the trousers aids shop lifting.

Caraville

Bertie Ahern doesn't dress like that.

Toby Take a Bow

A lot of groups will wear the same clothes. Hang around outside Ballsbridge when there's a rugby match on, you'll see a hell of a lot of people wearing very similar clothes.

Or outside a 'distressed' auction on Stephen's Green. Safety in numbers and/or a sheep mentality.

Downlinz

Toby Take a Bow wrote: »

A lot of groups will wear the same clothes. Hang around outside Ballsbridge when there's a rugby match on, you'll see a hell of a lot of people wearing very similar clothes.

Wearing a rugby shirt to a rugby match isn't exactly what I mean.

Marty McFly

Its all about pride, Ive known people like this and they were scum and proud it was like badge of honour for them to be branded a scumbag.

I could never get my head around it,but most of them would rather dress like that and be branded a scumbag rather than to be seen to be "posh".

cowzerp

I'm pretty sure there just dressing like there mates, and some of them are not scummers, just like goths dress like there mates and some of them are scummers too..

As a kid i wore kicker shoes, levi jeans and ben sherman shirts, why, it was meant to be the cool gear to wear and like most i wanted to be cool.

i liked it anyway

py2006

Image/appearance and what others think is not really relevant to them!

Some of them are of the mentality if you dress properly you are gay! or posh!

washman3

Caraville wrote: »

Bertie Ahern doesn't dress like that.

If we had a proper justice system in this country he would be wearing the "striped pyjamas" for a long time...:D

hdowney

i know. it is madness. makes me ever so consious of what i am wearing. say i am shelpping round the house in trakkies and a t-shirt (which is perfectly fine) and then i realize i need to pop to the shops for milk/bread/whatever, i will actually change into a proper pants and take off the trakkies as i don't want someone forming the wrong impression of me cos i popped out in my lazy clothes.

Downlinz

luvbulmers01 wrote: »

Its all about pride, Ive known people like this and they were scum and proud it was like badge of honour for them to be branded a scumbag.
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hmm thats interesting.

Kevin Duffy

Downlinz wrote: »

The white sneakers, tracksuit bottoms tight on the bottom and a zip-up jacket. Why do people willingly choose to dress like this when they know 90% of the people who see them will identify themselves as scumbags without knowing the first thing about them?

Is there some sort of pride being labelled as an undesirable/trouble-maker or do they just simply not care what people think?
Either way why do they all have the same fashion trends when people in other social brackets dress so differently from one another?

Eh, what? You mean hipsters don't look like other hipsters, business professionals like other business professionals etc? Eh, yeh, right.

py2006

I NEVER wear a tracksuit/runners and certainly wouldn't wear a football or a GAA top! If I did I would feel terribly self conscious and I would be worried that others would assume I am a scumbag!

Edit: Sounds silly reading it back but its reality!

Kojak

Well at least they are not running around buck naked OP......

ciaran76

Its so you cant tell them apart.

When someone needs to describe what the scumbag was wearing that doesnt exactly narrow it doown for the Gardai.

They (scumbags) know what they are doing !!!!!

starviewadams

Yeah,they all seem to wear expensive suits and hang around Leinster House.

7Sins

I'd be more worried if scumbags were fashion conscious

"Alri stori bud, got me new daycent blazer yea wha?"

"Ah ffs man, well clashin' wiv yer levi's"

"Yea wha?!"

"Ya look like a spare prick bud"

"Here we get a few can ov dutch gold and hit the high street, saw a top dere dat wud well match yer eyes bud"

UrbanSea

Wearing runners,tracksuit bottoms and a zip up top doesn't automatically make you a scum bag.

Chris P. Bacon

Im wearing tracksuit bottoms and runners now,am i a scumbag?

Caraville

UrbanSea wrote: »

Wearing runners,tracksuit bottoms and a zip up top doesn't automatically make you a scum bag.

No, true- but how you wear them is usually a good indicator, e.g. the ends of the tracksuit bottoms tucked into white socks, runners being either manky dirty or waaaaay too white (not normal in-between) and a baseball cap perched on your head with the peak up a bit too high.

The hair is usually a giveaway either if they're not wearing a cap- too much gel, that spiky thing with the fringe gelled down, *shudder*

Edit: The walk is usually a good indicator too, in fairness. 10 to 2 legs on them (like hands on a steering wheel, except it's their feet on the ground)

py2006

Chris P. Bacon wrote: »

Im wearing tracksuit bottoms and runners now,am i a scumbag?

Yes





(kidding)

py2006

In fairness, the clothes aside! You can usually differentiate them from civilised people by their physical appearance, body language, the way the carry themselves etc.

RichieC

UrbanSea wrote: »

Wearing runners,tracksuit bottoms and a zip up top doesn't automatically make you a scum bag.

Not all tracksuit and runner wearing people are scumbags but all scumbags wear runners and tracksuits!


I kid, some wear suits and ties and have 6 figure salaries.

joseph brand

Scumbag or Dirtbag or Shnacko.

I believe that scumbags dress like scumbags, to be seen as scumbags. That simple.

They know that a lot of people will give them a 'wide berth', on footpaths. Makes them feel tough. The shnacko uniform might protect you if you happen across a bunch of similarly dressed shnackos. You will not be seen as being an easy target like a bloke in jeans and shirt.

"GERRRRRUUUUMMMMM lads".

Griffen262

Lifestyle Sports?

Cormac2791

RichieC wrote: »

It's like a uniform and they wear it with pride.

the socks tucked into the the trousers aids shop lifting.

Or the trousers tucked into the socks

xzanti

Because most of them come from dysfunctional families where there is no consistency in their lives.. dressing in sync with their piers gives them a sense of belonging..

Cause it's cheap.

RichieC

cormacharraghy wrote: »

Or the trousers tucked into the socks

Show Time

Chris P. Bacon wrote: »

Im wearing tracksuit bottoms and runners now,am i a scumbag?

As i am involved in a sports club i spent 90% of my time in a tracksuit and i am far from a scumbag so i think it's a safe bet you are ok as well.:)

Larianne

xzanti wrote: »

Because most of them come from dysfunctional families where there is no consistency in their lives.. dressing in sync with their piers gives them a sense of belonging..

Cause it's cheap.

Or easy to steal.

J_E

py2006 wrote: »

I NEVER wear a tracksuit/runners and certainly wouldn't wear a football or a GAA top! If I did I would feel terribly self conscious and I would be worried that others would assume I am a scumbag!

Edit: Sounds silly reading it back but its reality!

It's not silly really. You want to give a decent impression to people you walk by and meet. I only wear tracksuits if I'm jogging or whatever anyway, always prefer jeans.

Anyway as other people have said, it's not the tracksuit that makes a scumbag, but all scumbags are made in tracksuits.

Jim Parker

xzanti wrote: »

Because most of them come from dysfunctional families where there is no consistency in their lives.. dressing in sync with their piers gives them a sense of belonging..

Cause it's cheap.

Not necessarily. A pair of Air Max, an adidas tracksuit pants and a football shirt will set you back over €200.

Mike 1972

xzanti wrote: »

Cause it's cheap.

I wouldnt exactly call £80+ shoes cheap
Edit: beaten to it

Celly Smunt

i sometimes wear tracksuit bottoms and hoodies due to the fact that they're most comfortable,suddenly i'm a scumbag :rolleyes:

emeraldstar

Downlinz wrote: »

The white sneakers, tracksuit bottoms tight on the bottom and a zip-up jacket. Why do people willingly choose to dress like this when they know 90% of the people who see them will identify themselves as scumbags without knowing the first thing about them?

Is there some sort of pride being labelled as an undesirable/trouble-maker or do they just simply not care what people think?
Either way why do they all have the same fashion trends when people in other social brackets dress so differently from one another?

When did we start calling them these in Ireland?

J_E

pmcmahon wrote: »

i sometimes wear tracksuit bottoms and hoodies due to the fact that they're most comfortable,suddenly i'm a scumbag :rolleyes:

There's a difference. You can easily tell it from looking. You should know this even.

sollar

They look extra scummy with a striped wool jumper on with their white tracksuit bottoms and white trainers.

- bo -

Tracksuits don't make you a scumbag, acting like a scumbag makes you a scumbag. I wear tracksuit bottoms, runners, football shirts. I also wear band/festival t-shirts, converse/vans, whatever.

Cydoniac wrote: »

You want to give a decent impression to people you walk by.

I honestly could not give a toss what impressions people out and about get from me if they're going by what I'm wearing.

Gummy Panda

pmcmahon wrote: »

i sometimes wear tracksuit bottoms and hoodies due to the fact that they're most comfortable,suddenly i'm a scumbag :rolleyes:

Story bud!

Spunge

What's a scumbag ?

amacca

the answer is simple...

scumbags for the most part have already shown a marked lack of individuality and invention by becoming scumbags (in many ways the lazy/easy option until they realize they have trapped themselves and there is no way out)

why then is it surprising that when it comes to dressing themselves they just copy the same general format of whatever the other scumbags are wearing...that format being the lazy option when it comes to dressing oneself also I might add + even the semi-intelligent ones don't want to stick out like a sore thumb.........its bad enough being a target for your "associates" as well as competitors


its true of other social groupings that cant think for themselves and prefer to be part of a herd also

d4 twitter boxes etc etc and so on and so forth

anyway its good for us that they wear a uniform......we can avoid/take appropriate action when we meet them + they would be more intelligent and more of a threat if they all dressed differently

amacca

Spunge wrote: »

What's a scumbag ?

I don't know how to save money on me car insurance!

Larianne

Jim Parker wrote: »

Not necessarily. A pair of Air Max, an adidas tracksuit pants and a football shirt will set you back over €200.

Do you believe most people who wear those clothes pay full price for them? Or buy them in a shop?

Teyla Emmagan

On a related note, why do scumbags wear so much white? They seem to wear about twice as much of it as the rest of the population - the zip up jackets, tracksuit bottoms, runners etc. Again, is it part of the uniform, or is it just that those awful scobie clothes only come predominantly in white?

Has really put me off the colour.

stovelid

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

On a related note, why do scumbags wear so much white?

To make them more conspicuous so that you wet your pants when you see them.

CiaranC

You should all kill yourselves

amacca

CiaranC wrote: »

You should all kill yourselves

:rolleyes: .....meh

Teyla Emmagan

stovelid wrote: »

To make them more conspicuous so that you wet your pants when you see them.

Surely they should be trying to blend in so they are better able to get away with their theiving or whatever they're going into town for though?

holystungun9

hdowney wrote: »

i know. it is madness. makes me ever so consious of what i am wearing. say i am shelpping round the house in trakkies and a t-shirt (which is perfectly fine) and then i realize i need to pop to the shops for milk/bread/whatever, i will actually change into a proper pants and take off the trakkies as i don't want someone forming the wrong impression of me cos i popped out in my lazy clothes.

Bingo. For you, lazy clothes are temporary, cos you have other sh1t to do in your life. For them lazy clothes are permanent and reflect their lifestyle - lazy as fúck.