What They Wear

JODIE: Let’s go on to “what you wear” now shall we cos that is quite a good one. OK let’s start off with “a child’s soft shoe worn for PE” what would you, what would you say for that?

LYNNIE: Pump. Pump.

KAREN: Pump.

STEPHEN: Pump

PETER: Trainee.

JODIE: A what? Sorry?

PETER: A trainee.

JODIE: What are those?

PETER: What you wear on your feet.

JODIE: And do you wear them all the time?

PETER: Yeah.

JODIE: Describe them for me.

PETER: Loads of people wear trainees. They’ve got laces and, just trainees.

KAREN: Fascinating.

JODIE: Pardon?

KAREN: Fascinating.

JODIE: Is it? Do many of your friends wear them?

PETER: Yeah. Loads of me mates wear trainees.

KAREN: Karen, do you think there’s, obviously you say pump but you know…

KAREN: We wore pumps when we were young.

JODIE: Say that again sorry?

KAREN: We wore pumps when we were at school, pumps, and now the kids wear trainees. It’s just…

LYNNIE: And in primary schools they still have to wear pumps for school.

KAREN: Or plimsolls.

PETER: [Inaudible]… trainees.

LYNNIE: They don’t. It depends on the mother. But in secondary school it’s trainees isn’t it? You can wear trainees.

PETER: I wore trainees when I was in…

JODIE: Say that again.

PETER: I wore trainees in primary school,

KAREN: Did he?

JODIE: What about yourself? Did you wear pumps when you were at school?

STEPHEN: I wore pumps, yeah. When I was in juniors.

JODIE: What about, what about, like kind of when you walk down the street or that kind of thing, or when you leave the house or whatever, do you wear?

STEPHEN: I wear trainees, trabs.

JODIE: What do you wear?

STEPHEN: Trabs.

JODIE: And what are they?

STEPHEN: Trainees, kecks. They’re trousers like trackie bottoms.

JODIE: Have you got any other words that you can think of, especially about the stuff that you wear?

STEPHEN: Clobber. Clobber. All that I am wearing now is me clobber. That’s what you call your wardrobe, you’ve got all your clobber in your wardrobe.

JODIE: What about the name for “a young person in cheap trendy clothes and jewellery”. If you saw somebody walking down the street in cheap trendy clothes and jewellery, what would you say?

KAREN: She’s minted.

LYNNIE: A Scal.

JODIE: A what?

LYNNIE: Scal,

JODIE: What’s that?

LYNNIE: Scally, just you know, people that are follower of fashion. Steve’s the epitome of Scallyness.

JODIE: Why? What’s scally?

STEPHEN: Just wearing trackies and going an’ all (aside) … yeah, following your mates, following the group, yeah.

WOMAN: Fashion, it’s fashion in’it?

JODIE: It’s what?

LYNNIE: Fashion. Even though it says, where you’ve put, (refers to Spidergram) “cheap… young person”, it doesn’t automatically be cheap trendy clothes, it’s sort of the fashion isn’t it, and you would say, you look like a Scally, because that’s what generally people of their age look like.

JODIE: So as in you’re saying as in, “Their age”, you’re saying 14, 19, you know, what you’re saying, teenagers?

LYNNIE: I know old Scallies. I know 40 year old Scallies and it just depends sort of on how they dress but it is isn’t it. Our Karen’s a mother of three and she looks a bit of a Scal today!

JODIE: So what defines a Scally? Is it a case of wearing trackies or is it, I don’t know, certain clothes? I mean obviously you’ve got a football shirt on there. Is that… What’s that about? If you saw somebody else walking down the street with a football shirt, would you instantly say something to them?

STEPHEN: No not really.

KAREN: It’s how they wear them.

LYNNIE: It’s how they wear them cos they can see like them business fellers in they would have a Liverpool shirt on, maybe jeans which can be either, but they’d have bad trainees on so they wouldn’t be a Scally, would they, because they …

KAREN: They would have to be stylish. To be a Scally you’ve got to be stylish and you’ve got to be in on it.

LYNNIE: You’ve got to have the latest trainees on so you can see someone in a football top with a pair of Dunlop green flash you would not be a Scally.

PETER: I’d say “Get away now”!.

JODIE: Why, all right, explain that because obviously I don’t understand that. Explain that, why is that not a Scally?

LYNNIE: That is not a Scally because the trainees are outdated. They’re like, you know, not even last season. Or my husband tried to buy me a pair of pink and white trainees from Lidl’s

KAREN: The Red Cross Shop.

LYNNIE: Lidl’s , called Mercury or something pink, for a fiver. Now, there is no way on this earth would I would wear trainees but my husband doesn’t care, cos he doesn’t go in for it but he was saying “Why if they’re good trainees?” and I was saying, “No way, am I wearing pink and white trainees that are a fiver but he wouldn’t have it. So I think it goes on sort of, you know, sort of by the shoes. So that’s me.

PETER: Say if someone come into school with a grapper (?) pod on or something like that.

JODIE: A what?

PETER: Grapper (?) crap shoes, you’d just – upside down Nike tick ‘n all that - you’d just laugh at them, and say, “Where did you get your sneakers from lad?” and just …

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