Teens hit street in £768 kits

[Tinky]

Insurers Cornhill Direct have conducted a survey which polled 2,500 parents. According to the survey the average teen wears trainers or shoes worth £64.49 and a £74.77 coat. £49.86 jeans and £40.42 jumper. They wear jewellery worth about £125 , and £75 watch, carry a mobile phone at £127.58 and an M3 player worth £150. Wallets or purses cost £32.80 and hold about £30. A third of the parents say teens expect the latest fashions, and half say they spend half their average £6.29 a week pocket money on clothes and gadgets. But 3 in 10 teens regularly lose valuable items or have them stolen. Cornhill Direct say 'Parents should try to prevent them leaving the home with too much costly kit'.

My daughter (admittingly is only 10) chooses her clothes by how they feel worn than what make they are. She is very fussy about seems being felt or trousers wearing to high etc .It does make it hard to fond comfortable clothes for her but she is happy in comfortable cheap ones .I just hope it lasts

[Tinky]

Hi Zing again, but I suspect she is in the minority, for your sake I hope I am wrong!

[lauzjp]

omg, if when I have kids they start demanding pricey nonsense then they can pay for it themselves... most of my clothes are from asda or mark1 or charity shops. or ebay!

of course, I will have to work on excuses for the poor kid(s) to say to their 'designer' clad walking advertisement what on earth is the point classmates.

[Tinky]

Get out the violins, most of my childrens clothes were bought at jumble sales. Thankfully my children were all born in an age before designer labels. But now they may have the problem with their children...........

[Druchii]

Listing by that lot... This is me, Age 17, the most expensive i've ever been (Never asked for designer as a kid)

Trousers: Diadora Trackies (£15)
Shoes: Umbro Trainers (£12, sale)
T-Shirts: Various (£5 - 15)
Coat: Black Diadora (£20)
Jewellery: One Silver Chain (£19)
Wallet: Fosters (£FREE)
Wallet Contents: £40
Phone: K750i (£89) 3220 (£59)
Pocket Money: Nil
Mp3: Samsung 20Gb (£89)

Total: (Taken with max values) = £358

Oh, and i still think i take too much with me

me combats or jeans 15 quid max
Trainers Nike air (done a deal cost me £1 worth of blank dvds )
T shirt Peacocks vintage 6 quid
coat Bench 40 quid
Phone D600 100 quid now
MP3 on fone
wallet 5 quid leather
contents im not disclosing

£167 and im 37 I like my Bench coat the others I wear are cheaper from Asda

I know I dont count cuz im not a teen but I can wish

[Tinky]

I'm with you Druchii, also depends in which part of the country the survey was conducted. I suspect down here, the total would be even less.

[lauzjp]

I did have a pair of nike air jordans (the blue white and red ones) when I was in high school - most expensive thing I ever asked my mum to get me I think they were £70 but they were awesome, really, best pair of trainers I ever had! lasted ages too.

[Hugh]

Druchii, I think your calculation is more realistic...

[Maggy J]

Well for those of us who taught our teenagers to despise the trend of logoism we did very well.My son and daughter know the pitfalls and choose by low costs as well as by quality and won't be suckered into buying goods to be part of the crowd or to be trendy.Indeed my daughter chooses to make her own trends.
My son will spend ages searching through sale items to find a bargain and will disdain anything that smacks of hype.He does this so he can have enough spare cash to spend on GAMES.

Mind my daughter has at times in her enthusiasm for buying from charity shops given me some uncomfortable moments.The red and yellow tartan coat she wore to death was one of them...I would walk on the other side of the road.

loon pants £1.00
grandad shirt £0.50
baseball boots £1.50

- army/air force coats from 'whatever' source, were optional

- nuffin worth nicking, basically

[Maggy J]

Originally Posted by homealone

loon pants £1.00
grandad shirt £0.50
baseball boots £1.50

- army/air force coats from 'whatever' source, were optional

- nuffin worth nicking, basically

Frankly that's no defence.My daughter has been mugged twice and had her handbag stolen twice and she looks like a err down at heel scruffy student.

Shame because when she smartens up she looks terrific.<insert heart bursting with pride smiley>.

[nffc]

Originally Posted by Druchii

Listing by that lot... This is me, Age 17, the most expensive i've ever been (Never asked for designer as a kid)

Trousers: Diadora Trackies (£15)
Shoes: Umbro Trainers (£12, sale)
T-Shirts: Various (£5 - 15)
Coat: Black Diadora (£20)
Jewellery: One Silver Chain (£19)
Wallet: Fosters (£FREE)
Wallet Contents: £40
Phone: K750i (£89) 3220 (£59)
Pocket Money: Nil
Mp3: Samsung 20Gb (£89)

Total: (Taken with max values) = £358

Oh, and i still think i take too much with me

Diadora trackies, umbro trainers and a chain? Undoubtedly . Forgot the burberry cap though, didn't you? :P

Two phones though. Why?

When I was a mid teen I wore stay press trousers red white and blue jam shoes or bowling shoes or winkle pickers ex army fishtail parka fred perry tshirt and had no money till I run away from home and told my mum that was why (really I was on a bender )
value about 30 quid the lot would have been 50 quid if I paid for the parka

In my early teens it was the harington jacket with tonic stay press cant remember what else lol