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To put my baby in a red coat when...

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missknows · 30/04/2014 21:50

She has a purple pram?

Because a random old lady who wanted to look in the pram and see the baby (as they do) told me off for exactly that! Are the fashion police going to arrest me? Will my daughter be scarred for life?

P.s obviously this is a light-hearted thread but the lady was genuinely disgusted in me and made a point of telling me so. Thought she was going to phone childline on my baby's behalf.

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TheLastThneed · 30/04/2014 21:52

How could you do such a thing? You'll have to buy a new pram tomorrow... Grin

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EatShitDerek · 30/04/2014 21:52

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IsChippyMintonExDirectory · 30/04/2014 21:52

YABVVVVU!!!
Or not. Old women are weird
The other day when I told my mum I don't go out my way to match DDs clothes I just take out whatever's at the top of the drawer she called me cruel Hmm she very nearly fainted when I said I don't iron her clothes either unless they're very creased. She's 1 FFS!

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Shockers · 30/04/2014 21:53

I quite like red and purple together.

(Child of the 70s)

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meditrina · 30/04/2014 21:54

I've seen bright orange prams containing pink-clad infants.

I have wondered how widespread colour blindness really is.

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missknows · 30/04/2014 21:54

Ooo I don't iron either. I'm going to hell aren't I?

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ClockWatchingLady · 30/04/2014 21:55

Social services have been informed.

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Ohwhatfuckeryisthis · 30/04/2014 21:55

You don't have co ordinating prams and outfits? I'm calling child line myself.

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Morgause · 30/04/2014 21:55

YABVVVU

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ouryve · 30/04/2014 21:56

Why not start em young?
www.barbados.org/poetry/wheniam.htm

I love red and purple together!

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Passmethecrisps · 30/04/2014 21:57

Also a fan of red and purple.

All old people. All of them. Thing that my dd is a boy. Sometimes I make a massive point of dressing her in head to toe pink and she still gets mistaken for a boy.

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candycoatedwaterdrops · 30/04/2014 21:57

I hope you're saving up for the years of therapy your daughter will need as a result of your shoddy actions. Shame on you!

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fluffyraggies · 30/04/2014 21:57

Purple and red - lovely.

How about this though - i've bought a lipstick red travel system, but just realised my only favorite mac is the exact same colour.

too much red Hmm

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MyFabulousBoys · 30/04/2014 21:58

WTF is wrong with you?

Purple and red? Like a bruise? On a baby?

Nice.

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BlackeyedSusan · 30/04/2014 21:58

what's ironing?

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missknows · 30/04/2014 21:59

Ouryve that's brilliant. I might print a copy in case I ever meet her again!

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Tangoandcreditcards · 30/04/2014 22:01

Eek. My purple pram has red trimmings. I had no idea it was a faux pas!

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Chocoholism · 30/04/2014 22:02
Shock
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KatieKaye · 30/04/2014 22:02

Passmethecrisps - are you parting her hair on the boys side? Wink

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sherbetpips · 30/04/2014 22:06

I had an awful mamas n papas car seat when DS was newborn, it kind of scrunched him up. When out with my MIL she used to say loudly to everyone who looked at him 'He's not disabled it's the seat'! Only the over 70s can do un-pc like that.

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Passmethecrisps · 30/04/2014 22:06

I think her failing is a lack of her. My fault obvs.

She does have a cardie with car buttons on. And apparently it buttons down the boy side

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Raskova · 30/04/2014 22:06

Perfectly reasonable.

Red and pink on the other hand... Hmm

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Amy106 · 30/04/2014 22:10

Awful! Just plain awful!
You can either spray paint the pram, dye the coat or never, ever go outside. Choice is yours. Grin

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LRDtheFeministDragon · 30/04/2014 22:13

I pity your child. Sad

Why did you not buy her a pink pram and a nice pink coat? How will she know to grow up nurturing, feminine and creative instead of bold, masculine and decisive? Shock

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Passmethecrisps · 30/04/2014 22:17

Hair my post should read. She has little hair. She has a bit of her I suppose

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