Makeup and Dress Code for the School Run: Necessary or Not? 💄👕👖

Hillsborough !

@Youcannevertelltownfromtown true - I think worrying about whether the clothes you wear for collecting your children from school are "suitable" is probably not obsessive. It's just a little bit sad. No one should care what other people think about their clothes.

They are allowed to use the comments. It’s in the t&cs. But MN can at least try to investigate if someone is not a genuine poster in good faith the same way they do for any other t roll. Personally, I think they should.
I don’t think any of the comments here show anyone being obsessive about anything tbf.

@CALO59 I don't know how/if Mumsnet can actually stop tabloids getting their stories from here.
While Mumsnet is essentially anonymous it's a public forum that can be accessed by anyone. I don't believe anyone owns the copyright on comments.
Perhaps if people didn't obsess over silly things such as what to wear for collecting children from school the tabloids wouldn't be interested in turning threads into articles.

Lots of us on here just want to chat and discuss things with each other. We don’t want to have our comments published in a tabloid. It’s putting me right of mn tbh. In future, I’m going to report threads like this for not being a genuine poster.

Have you been living under a rock?

The Sun newspaper printed a load of shitty lies about Liverpool fans over the Hillsborough disaster!!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coverage_of_the_Hillsborough_disaster_by_The_Sun

I’m definitely not as glamorous as some of the school mums, but I do shower, get dressed casually and apply make up. I wfh and am on camera on calls several times in the day, so that’s the main reason for make up otherwise I look like I have no features at all!

Each to their own in my opinion, I’m glad I’m at an age now where I couldn’t give a crap what others think of me.

No thanks, my grandma was from Liverpool, she’d be turning in her grave if I clicked that link.

I look thrown together most days and rarely wear make up. I don't really tend to notice what people are wearing. I'm more interested in faces: seeing whether people look tired, sad, stressed etc.
For my part, normally just jeans and a hoodie for the school run, or a tshirt in hotter weather.
Very occasionally, if my self-esteem could do with a boost, I might wear a skirt, but that's about as good as it gets.

I wear make up for the school run, work, dog walks, supermarket etc etc. I feel better with it.

Judge away.

I wear make up and dress like a rainbow or 1950s I don’t look at what every else is wearing I wear a dress with heels or a dress and converse

I always did the school run in whatever was appropriate for the day ahead. As did most mums as far as a I remember.

If I was due in the office - office gear. If I was on way to gym - gym kit. If I was on way back from stables - smelly jodhs and wellies.

Now I don't have to do the school run and I work from home but if I did I would be doing it in leggings/trackies/dog walking stuff like most of the SAHMs and WFHMs I see on their way to the school at the end of my road every morning!

How do you know who is off to work, though? I mean apart from those in dressing gowns and slippers - which I've never seen!

Some people wear make up even if they are not leaving the house or seeing someone so I don’t think it’s unusual to wear it for a school run.

I know someone who plans her school run outfits which I do think is a bit odd but 🤷🏻‍♀️

I have to start work before ds wakes - I have just enough time to get out of my pyjamas and comb / tie my hair in the morning and that delay often means I’m in the same state for pick up. I wish I had the time to get ready properly - I feel it’s made a lot of the other mums dismiss me - but I don’t have the time.

Personally I like to at least put underwear on. My granny's voice rings in my ears if I contemplate going anywhere in PJs "but what would the drs think if you were in an accident?"

I did have to drop DD at school at 1:30 am recently for a school trip. Only time I've done the school run in PJs under my coat. And no, I didn't get out of the car.

Well this thread has made it into The Sun and one of my comments is there 😂
I actually feel quite excited by that 🤣

Most mums seem to dress as if they are about to head to the gym. Casual I'd say - no one showed up in jammies or a onesie but no one 'dressed' for the school run.

It doesn't matter about make-up, but be presentable and throw on some actual clothes.

As I haven't worn make-up at all for at least 15 years, I'm not going to start just to appease the "mum crowd". My outfit is whatever I've chosen to wear that day!

I never wore makeup for the school run unless I was going out somewhere nice like meeting DH or a friend for lunch.

i was always washed and dressed though - usually jeans and t-shirt! I wouldn’t dream of going anywhere in PJs!

Sheer bloody madness. Why do you care what others think of what you wear to drop your children off? Surely that was left behind when you left school ? As long as your clothes are clean and you aren't dressed like a hooker, what does it matter?

I did the school run in my pyjamas this morning, mine are secondary now, and it was a last minute lift because another monsoon started as they were leaving for the bus and I don't actually have to get out of the car.

Primary days I wore whatever was appropriate for what I was going after drop off - office / gym / jeans and a t shirt.

Parents just wore normal clothes.