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Is this dress appropriate for school pick up?

161 replies

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:
CollyBobble · 03/07/2024 15:58

It's fine as long as you're slim.

Poolstream · 03/07/2024 15:57

QuackQuackComeBack · 03/07/2024 15:38

I have voted YABU because you’ve started a thread about what to wear on the school run. You are overthinking it. It is not a catwalk. Wear clothes.

YABU for not reading op’s thread properly.

Nanny0gg · 03/07/2024 15:56

Trinity65 · 03/07/2024 14:21

LOL
Are the commenters in your real life from the 1960s

Nothing wrong with it OP, at all.

You do realise we wore mini-skirts (and I mean mini) in the 60s?

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 03/07/2024 15:54

I have voted YABU because you’ve started a thread about what to wear on the school run. You are overthinking it. It is not a catwalk. Wear clothes.

Did you actually read the OP's post? She just put on some clothes. Her dh challenged what she was wearing. OP, you have a dh problem, not a wardrobe problem.

BotterMon · 03/07/2024 15:51

Well if it's 26 degrees you're not in England so guess it depends on where you live.

Here it wouldn't be an issue. Far smarter than some of the PJ's and other sloppy shite I've seen people wearing on way to work driving past some local schools (near work not home!)

Allthehorsesintheworld · 03/07/2024 15:50

Buy a little 1950s style hat with a bit of net on it. Perch it on your head and ask DH if it’s suitable now.
Honestly, who looks at what any parent/ grandparent/ carer wears to school pick up.

Epicaricacy · 03/07/2024 15:49

QuackQuackComeBack · 03/07/2024 15:38

I have voted YABU because you’ve started a thread about what to wear on the school run. You are overthinking it. It is not a catwalk. Wear clothes.

the OP is not overthinking, she was on the receiving end of unpleasant comments. It's people who commented who are BU.

pontipinemum · 03/07/2024 15:45

As long as I can't see your arse cheeks I'm happy. In general it looks fine. The model is probably 5'10 most women are a lot shorter than that, so it's probably a lot longer on you/ me

QuackQuackComeBack · 03/07/2024 15:38

I have voted YABU because you’ve started a thread about what to wear on the school run. You are overthinking it. It is not a catwalk. Wear clothes.

2dogsandabudgie · 03/07/2024 15:37

I saw a mum wearing a swimming costume with leggings and no one said anything.

Epicaricacy · 03/07/2024 15:36

Collard · 03/07/2024 13:51

Comment from dh. Showed friends said dress. And someone said they would have thrown on a jacket.

Didn’t realise this was Saudi Arabia

If you were chilly, then yes, you should have thrown a jacket. If not, what the hell?

Like pretty much every other mum in my kids school, I have worn anything from shorts + vest, I have worn tulle skirt and tshirts, suits, tracksuit bottoms, maxi dresses, mini skirts... and not one person actually gave a shiny shit about what I (or the others) wore that day 😂

godmum56 · 03/07/2024 15:35

Collard · 03/07/2024 13:51

Comment from dh. Showed friends said dress. And someone said they would have thrown on a jacket.

Didn’t realise this was Saudi Arabia

Is the "someone" the same person as the "friend"? because they ain't no friend!!

CactusMactus · 03/07/2024 15:34

One mum did pick up in dressing gown with remote control in one pocket and baby bottle in the other....

Your cute dress is fine!

Epicaricacy · 03/07/2024 15:33

DappledThings · 03/07/2024 13:57

Other than pyjamas anything goes.

or a bikini

NightPuffins · 03/07/2024 15:29

I'd say the open back is fine but it's maybe a bit too short to be practical for school? If you're crouching down or bending say to pick something up you'll be flashing your pants to everyone.

Nokiding · 03/07/2024 15:28

Who cares what you wear to pick up your kids. If your not in pj's or underwear

Wayda · 03/07/2024 15:27

Dress is from NA KD. Bought on sale

BouquetGarni224 · 03/07/2024 15:26

Razorwire · 03/07/2024 15:24

Don’t ever ask him to ok your clothes.

Where did she say she did?

Razorwire · 03/07/2024 15:24

Don’t ever ask him to ok your clothes.

WiddlinDiddlin · 03/07/2024 15:23

Clothing for public wear should, in my opinion:

Adequately cover genitals for whatever activity it is you're doing.
Not have food/grot all over it or stink.

That'll do. Ideally I'd add in a third condition 'that you feel comfortable and happy wearing it' too!

BouquetGarni224 · 03/07/2024 15:21

There's nothing wrong with it. It's a summer dress for a summer day.

It's not even a revealing summer dress.

Our (relatively posh) school run is populated by skin tight yoga pants with lots of buttocks etc on show.
On a couple of occasions a young woman I thought was a child's Mum but turns out is her older sister (big age gap) did the school run in a crop top and skin tight short shorts that were like big knickers.

I really wouldn't think anything of a nearly knee length dress with presumably not a low cut front, and a bit of a cut-out at the back, covered mostly by long hair.

You have a husband problem.

Your mate is also weird.

icclemunchy · 03/07/2024 15:21

The only time I looked twice at what someone was wearing on the school run was when someone turned up up in a pair of those fluffy mule style slippers, and that was mostly because I was in awe that she ran in them!

Gettingannoyednow · 03/07/2024 15:21

It's not like it's got CUNT printed across it. Is this the first time your dh has been a bit controlling?

AllTheChaos · 03/07/2024 15:19

My take is that if bum and boobs are covered, you’re all good.

MassiveOvaryaction · 03/07/2024 15:17

I think it might be a bit odd to specifically choose it for the school run (but my brain is mush today so I can't really articulate why), but if you were going somewhere before/after then yep it's grand.