What is classed as mummsy style?

[Booie09]

Just that really...what is too mummsy?

Yeah all those men who get called out for dressing like sluts/dressing like dads, that happens almost constantly. The endless pages in magazines talking about that suit that guy wore that showed too much leg/not enough leg/too much chest/not enough chest.

When will they rise up against their oppressors

purpledaisies absolutely it's for real. Not to the same extent as women, no. But they definitely do.

Sometimes people doing the school run are going elsewhere afterwards where smarter dress and high heels are 'appropriate'
Who gets to decide what is appropriate for where?? Its pure judgement and wrong

There's mumsy/frumpy - sensible bob , sensible shoes, sensible anorak and
Then mummy uniform - skinny jeans, converse, etc

Someone got it right about not looking ornamental or desirable but I remember at uni and at school there were girls who dressed like that (the first one) usually because they were out with horses, dogs, geography field trips etc

Mumsy hair is that graduated Bob that is longer at the front.

@NotUmbongoUnchained

Anything from Boden (vom).
Anything flowery and a bit floaty.
Balayage hair.

Anyone thinking your school run heels look trying too hard is a bitch.
But your opinions above aren't bitchy?

Well done on the hypocrisy front.

Also, like I said on my earlier post, high heels look out of place in the school run... unless you're going to work/party.

And there's heels and high heels.

@BlaaBlaaBlaa that manwhohasitall is very good, not seen it before.

Re 'mumsy' agree 100% with it being a pejorative term. Men aren't in any way labelled like this. I wear seasonally appropriate occasion appropriate clothes. I really don't give a shit what anyone else thinks.

I am a mum.

I really hope my daughters don't have to put up with this rubbish.

Mmmm...if I'm not in work (work P/T) and it's a weekday, I will probably be doing the school run, going to toddler groups, running errands, going to park or for a walk with the kids and dog.

So on those days i wear trainers, skinny jeans and a top (I do like striped because I flatters my body shape) and a jacket. I don't really care if I look "mumsey", these clothes look suit me and make practical sense considering how I'm spending my time. My weekends are actually pretty similar apart from no school run, so clothes would be the same.

My sister did tell my my FB page (when i had one) was "so mumsey" with a disgusted look. That annoyed me a bit. I am a mum. I'm not ashamed of it.

The Boden comment was bitchy.

But the other 2 were just stating what mums around here tend to wear. Didn’t make a comment on them.

Try hard is a nasty thing to say about someone’s entire personality.

Metallic shoes!

I've been wearing Converse since I was a teenager, and decades away from being a mum. Buggered if I'm going to stop now.

I bloody love being mumsy! I spent years wearing suits / make up/ smart hair / heels working in the city. Poncy coats that look good but freezing cold on the commute. I now work from home and relish the school run in my parka and most recently- Hunter wellies ! In fact I love this post it's teaching me what mumsy clothes to buy

Looking mumsy is just another stick to beat women with. It’s like ‘sure you’ve been up since 6 am taking dogs a walk, getting kids ready for school, visiting elderly parents before doing a 10hr shift but couldn’t you have also blow dried your hair, applied make up, iron a crisp white shirt and totter about in slightly uncomfortable shoes all day?’
You could even add that if I started to get up even earlier I could fit in a work out session and that combined with not eating any biscuits all day would ‘help’ me lose that extra baby weight.

Mumsy has negative connotations. It’s a loaded word

I absolutely agree.

Why do we constantly look for things to knock other women?

And for what it's worth, I bloody LOVE stripes

Oh god, just let people wear whatever they want to wear. Mums tend to dress similarly because it works when dealing with kids. So by definition it looks ‘mumsy’ because we are mums.

Who cares, wear what you want.

@lweji so do women who wear heels on the school run need to wear a sign explaining they're going to work after???

Bloody ridiculous that in this day and age women are still having to deal with this shit.

And yes I have tons of stripes, a Seasalt jacket (not yellow tho!) and converse. I like them, who gives a stuff.

You've got to seriously loathe yourself to be a woman living in the UK who needs to go out the house sometimes, and then slag anoraks.

turquoise we could start up a stripe appreciation society . It's a bit of a running joke between my husband and I; come in from shopping "2 more stripey tops then?"

I love them.

blaa you have to sign a written consent form and lweji has to measure your heel height so she knows it's appropriately low.

But not TOO low. That would be mumsy.

Totally agree with all the mumsnetters standing up for mums here. I was about to pitch in with bitchy comments but I stopped because you’re all right!! Time to stop being mean and judgmental about other mums.

😂😂😂

I presume mumsy style refers to whatever mums wear.

So, based on the mums I know, jeans and a flowery top, leather leggings, homemade knits, salwaar kameez, running gear and shiny heels and dripping with diamonds (oh yes, she's a legend) are all mumsy.

These styles on these particular women could equally be described as GP style, full professor of physics style, solicitor style, carer style and scary American lawyer style. But they aren't because once you are a mum that's the social construct you live and die by. And heaven for fend if you step out of the box (tart) or even stay in the box ( mumsy frump).

I know I sound like a humourless feminist. But I've had forty years of this judgy shit and it's wearing mighty thin.

High heels for the school run aren't really appropriate and therefore not stylish

What if you’re doing the school run on the way to work
must I get changed en route so as to not be vapid and cringy whilst dropping the kids, or risk being frumpy and sensible when I get to work? It’s a minefield