What's your schools mum's uniform round your way?

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Our is white new balance trainers, White Nike socks pulled up and over dark grey or black lululemon leggings and a hoodie (usually adanola) - then a Canada goose coat

Whatever their jobs require. Which, given that DS’s school is near two hospitals and the university, can be anything from scrubs to cycling gear to a sharp suit to the kind of manky fleece and combats worn by someone who’s on an archaeology dig.

Snap! Plus lots of the parents are into knitting and some of them make gorgeous things. There’s a good few septum piercings and jazzy hair colours too. It makes me feel like Eeyore sometimes as I’m not madly into wearing bright colours.

There isnt a uniform here.
Although ita winter and everyone is in big coats. Most people wear a form of trainers for pick ups too.
So uniform is currently a warm coat of any style and trainers of any style.

It varies. Some wear sports leggings etc, others jeans, others work wear. There’s no uniform, it sounds like you’re mocking them?

Why do you ask @YouWillNeverGuessMyUsername?

THIS!! do people NOT work like wtf!!??

THIS!! do people NOT work like wtf!

Why would collecting your dc from school or dropping them off on foot mean you don’t work?

I picked up my neighbours kids the other day and was pondering this, it varied a lot from very smart (guessing barrister from the black formal traditional line suit) through a variety of retail branded polos and fleeces as they obviously work there, gym wear, typical smart casual office wear (knitted cotton dresses and boots etc), those fashionable but odd to me matching tops and bottoms sets - all topped off with a selection of coats, helly Hansen sailing jackets popular(on coast) puffer jackets, didriksons coats and many cheaper brands but the stand out are Dry Robes (or knock off ones) but we have an outdoor swimming lake so it is genuinely popular to swim year round. I was collecting at 6 so this was the working parents pick up time (my neighbour was stuck in traffic)

The kids in y3 and under aren't allowed to be dropped off like that...
Plus probably 90% of people walk round our way

Please tell me you do drop off by horse!

Just wondering if it's a regional thing I suppose.

Dressed in leggings everyday…

It's clothes. People wear clothes. A variety of them, like in all walks of life. There is no uniform look for parents at my school or OP's.

Where I live all the young mum's where what the OP describes, it's the oldies with adult kids who wear what you're describing 😂

OP, do your children attend a school with a very small catchment? I'm trying to imagine a school with parents in a very small sociodemographic and age range. I've only ever taught in schools where some mums are 21 and some are 41, some are going to work and some are long-term unemployed, some have walked a muddy route to school and others have driven up nearly to the school gates. Of course, this means they wear very different clothes. I do know what you mean about uniforma as you tend to see it in city centre play parks, where nearly all the mums in their 30s are wearing very similar outfits, but I've never seen it at a school.

Baaaaaaaa. What’s up sheeple.

Mostly a coat over work wear, jeans and jumper or gym gear. Same for the dads and presumably pretty much everyone else in the country.

We’re mostly a white stuff / joules / fat face with a mix of muddy wellies and big coats.

At the moment, either officewear or jeans, sweater, walking boots, warm jacket of some description.

We're rural, the school is rural. The lanes are muddy and the farmers are hedgecutting, ditching etc. Lots of wet muddy dogs. No-one sane wears anything white here. 😁

@Kitchenbattle so you were saying people who wear leggings don’t work not people who get out of the car/walk?

the OPs post insinuates by use of the word “uniform” that pretty much everyone on the school run is wearing the same things. So weirdly really enough in my mind, I automatically think not everyone can wear these items to work. 🤣🤣 and hanging around School gate is not everything I’ve ever had time for and it’s not anything I see at my DCs School. In practice, hanging around at a school gate is completely alien to me. I pull up , my dc gets out and walks in. That’s pretty much how everyone does it unless they are a bit younger, parent gets out, brings them to the get and then walks back to the car. We just have a very different set up.

Just a complete mix in my son’s school tbh. I’m more likely to wear what you’re describing 🤷🏼‍♀️ - the rest of the moms just tend to wear jeans and a jacket/hoodie, some are in smart work clothes, some are in tracksuits, the odd one that constantly wears pyjamas which tbh is the only thing I’m a bit at.

That’s pretty much how everyone does it unless they are a bit younger, parent gets out, brings them to the get and then walks back to the car. We just have a very different set up

Yes, everywhere is different. I’m in London & many school roads are blocked for access between drop off/collection times. And when they were younger you had to collect them from the classroom not the gate.

Loads of people wfh, hybrid or part time, shifts etc so I just think its odd to assume someone doesn’t work based on what they are wearing and because they collect their dc.

I’m fully aware of that I wfh two days a week myself, what I really meant was the hanging around the school gate part mostly because when I’m dropping my kids, I drop and run because I have to go to work. 🤣 I have no time to stand around looking at what people wear. And I suppose unless EVERYONE is WFH (which they are not) then the chances are not everyone is going to be wearing the same “uniform”.

I don’t think the OP despite using the word uniform meant every single parent dressed the exact same way just what was the common look.

I collect my dc when i’ve finished work. I’m often waiting 15 mins or so & happy to chat. I never thought it was that big of a deal.

Mine do full time wraparound and the school is in the middle of 3 hospitals. So according to my experience at the school gates, the mum uniform is predominantly NHS scrubs.