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Is this dress appropriate for school pick up?

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Collard · 03/07/2024 13:48

I’m 5 ft 3. Hair as long as models so back is typically covered. Worn with flat nude sandals so very casual.

Is this dress appropriate for school pick up?
Is this dress appropriate for school pick up?
OP posts:
Wayda · 05/07/2024 09:07

why are people assuming I dressed up? I wore this dress all day on a hot day.

Theweepywillow · 05/07/2024 08:41

Blimey, who dresses for the school run. Not sure if it’s you or your husband being weird, seems both, as he made the comment and you apparently need to ask mumsnet instead of laughing at him and knowing rhe answer.

VerbenaGirl · 05/07/2024 08:39

Totally appropriate.

WirelessWendy · 04/07/2024 20:35

I saw a woman wearing a similar dress to an event on a hot day last week. It looked lovely when she stood up straight, but I don’t know if she realised quite how much she revealed when she bent over.

Regardless of that, it is still not your partner’s job to police your clothing. Only you can decide if his tone was “you are not wearing THAT!” or if it was “perhaps you’d like to check this from the rear view before you go out in it because when you bend over it looks like you are smuggling a hedgehog to school.”

Clueless2024 · 04/07/2024 20:16

I'd say it's a perfect summer outfit. Y'all are crazy if you see an issue here.

FreddieMercurysCat · 04/07/2024 20:15

It’s absolutely fine. We have a couple of gym mums that turn up in teeny tiny bikinis with an open over shirt & flip flops and no one bats an eyelid.

Getonwitit · 04/07/2024 19:13

Ok Pet, i will bite and say your choice of dress for such an event is nice. Does that make you feel better?

LlynTegid · 04/07/2024 19:04

Not an issue at all in my opinion.

Whereas taking your child to or from school in pyjamas is, suggests that you have got up without allowing enough time, and perhaps you are over the legal drink drive limit. Or take illegal drugs.

Liripipe · 04/07/2024 19:00

FateReset · 04/07/2024 18:31

It's a nice dress but would look rather over-dressed/attention seeking on the school run, unless you're heading straight out to an event.

What kind of 'event' would you wear a plain cotton or linen backless sundress to, though? I think it's a perfectly nice dress, though I couldn't wear it because I need a bra, but very much a daytime dress for hot weather, too casual/uncovered for the workplace. Unless by 'event' you mean lunch with friends?

UnicornMamma · 04/07/2024 18:56

Wear what you want. There's no dress code for parents. If someone said anything I'd shrug it off

Beezknees · 04/07/2024 18:51

FateReset · 04/07/2024 18:31

It's a nice dress but would look rather over-dressed/attention seeking on the school run, unless you're heading straight out to an event.

Disagree, it's a very plain daytime dress, not glam at all.

Beezknees · 04/07/2024 18:50

Why on earth would it be inappropriate? I used to wear shorts to pick up on hot days.

Pickingmyselfup · 04/07/2024 18:47

Nothing wrong with it. I turn up to school in all manner of things, gym wear, shorts, crop tops, playsuit, tracksuit bottoms, dresses. It's all weather dependent mainly and also what I'm doing either straight after drop up or right before pick up.

I draw the line at pyjamas or being naked but otherwise I wear what I like. I'm also 38 soon and would happily wear that dress if I liked the way it looked on me.

NeedToChangeName · 04/07/2024 18:33

I wouldn't wear that for school pick up, TBH

moonshinepoursthroughmywindow · 04/07/2024 18:32

I've never heard that there are any rules for what to wear to collect children from school. As far as I'm concerned, if you can wear it in the street or in the supermarket, you can wear it at the school gates. This dress doesn't seem remotely inappropriate to me.

FateReset · 04/07/2024 18:31

It's a nice dress but would look rather over-dressed/attention seeking on the school run, unless you're heading straight out to an event.

Mwanamatapa · 04/07/2024 18:29

Depends how old you are. If you're in your teens or early 20s, it's just fine. Older may not be appropriate.
But to each his own.

MounjaroUser · 04/07/2024 17:40

ByCupidStunt · 03/07/2024 14:09

You'd get a few funny looks if you wore it to a catholic school but other schools should be ok.

No you wouldn't!

Mylifesadrama · 04/07/2024 17:39

As long as you’re not exposing yourself or wearing something with offensive language on it, it’s no one else business what you wear to school pick up. Although a bikini may raise a few eyebrows! 🤣

Itsallsostressful · 03/07/2024 18:20

Cute dress nothing wrong with it 😊

PaintMeARiver · 03/07/2024 18:12

Fine as long as you don't have big boobs.

GG1986 · 03/07/2024 17:59

Yes it's fine. I saw a mum in hot pants and a crop top the other week!

BifurBofurBombur · 03/07/2024 17:17

NasiDagang · 03/07/2024 17:07

I don't think OP lives in UK. We haven't got 26 degrees in temperature, absolutely freezing at the moment.

Might have happened last week, it was 27 degrees where I am.

NasiDagang · 03/07/2024 17:07

I don't think OP lives in UK. We haven't got 26 degrees in temperature, absolutely freezing at the moment.

VickyEadieofThigh · 03/07/2024 17:03

MK19590 · 03/07/2024 13:50

I didn't realise there was a dress code for school pick ups

😂