Chavs,Hoodys and Baseball Caps.

[VINNY100_2]

Shopping Malls across the country are banning Hoodys and Baseball caps!!does this go for young kids and grandads To.And will they ban the shops  selling baseball caps, in the shopping Malls!!

[smudge]

You're joking Vinny - he'd kill me - well not literally!

[jamesy boy]

My father-in-law was asked to remove his flat cap in a pub in the Metro Centre (huge North-East shopping centre), so at least there is no discrimination regarding age/type of head gear worn.Having said that, I wonder how it will apply to Santa!

[flaming]

All this indignation about one thing - I have had to accept for two years that my local shopping centre banned smoking.  Didn't like it, but had to accept it was the majority view.  Centres take account of the paying customers' letters and usually bring in any new ban only if they know it has wide support from the shops in the centre and their customers.  There are quite a few rules and regulations that private shops and centres have always employed.  Harrods turns away anyone not properly dressed and even celebs. are turned away if their jeans are fashionably slashed and torn.  Most posh restaurants wouldn't have let a bloke in if he wasn't wearing a tie, and so on. If people don't want to go to a place with rules about dress, smoking or anything else then let them do that.

[jamesy boy]

I wonder how much of this whole "Chav" phenomenon is based around snobbery and racism.I mean that baseball caps and hoodies have been part of black youth culture for years, and have gone unmentioned, or at least accepted as "the norm".But it seems that if white, mainly working class youths dress in a hip-hop stylee, it is o.k. to label them as trouble-makers.I wonder if it is a way for the media to demonise young people without any fear of being labelled racist; In a nutshell, the people being labelled as "Chav Scum" are exclusively white; the love of sports-wear, "bling", and labels are not.Just a thought...

[martip]

Does Coombeshead College, Newton Abbot, Devon really have the answer to hoodies being considered an emblem of yobbish behaviour? Make them school uniform!

(as reported on the BBC website today, 20 May)

[Kishimo]

Are hoodys themselves banned, or just wearing the hood up that isn't allowed?

[leong]

does that mean the shops in the mall are banned from selling hoodys and caps