Nothing like a teenage daughter to keep you humbled…

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I leaned into the culottes and polka dot trend this season and was delighted with this bargain in Sainsburys last week. I thought I looked great. Effortless and summery chic etc etc. Until 14yo DD looked up at me with withering disdain and asked why was I dressed like a Tombliboo.

We had a similar situation last year when I bought a striped teeshirt and they called me Bagpuss for the whole summer.

Mine told me I’d applied my blusher perfectly- that is if I was going for the Mr Tumble look 🤡

I wouldn't have commented on my mums clothes. They were mum clothes and as such kind of invisible to me.
Im from the era where we loved clothing and went out dancing all the time dressed in anything wild and wonderful, my mum really was invisible to me sartorially. If I had a daughter… I’d not want comments that didnt embrace my style. So that’d be difficult!

😂 amazing

This seems perhaps a bit extreme but I do wonder if there's been a generational shift of some kind. I was a teenager in the 90s and I don't remember having much in the way of opinions about my mum's clothing, either positive or negative. Obviously what she wore probably wouldn't have fit into my teenage definition of 'cool', but I wouldn't have expected it to as she was a different generation. I just don't think it's something that I noticed much.

But I also would have considered it rude to comment on someone's clothing even in a bantering way tbh.

when I was a teen in the 90s I think mums had more of a grown up style and so it was very distinct from what the teens wore

I have a 17 and 20 year old and they still my clothes. It’s bloody annoying. Am not one for patterns but this thread is giving me the idea that in order to maintain the integrity of my wardrobe, this is something I should change

STEAL…

This is what we are like. Unfortunately as the kids hit 18 it can get a bit close to the bone where you don't know if they are joking or serious sometimes. No one has ever asked me to not wear something. I think as long as we are all laughing it's OK. But I do wonder what a outsider might think if they causally observed us.

Besides none of the comments will stop me wearing my Soviet grandmother coat in public 😂 I am old enough to be a grandmother in reality. As my dd points out her friends gran was 36 when she was born. Rather than get offended I told her to make sure she gets pg before she finishes her A levels and impart that advice to her own dd. No one gets offended. Until she says something hurtful like I look fat it's a lesson in humility

I think it's useful to occasionally remind your teenagers that you have the power to embarrass them.

My dad had dark curly hair and a moustache. Once we were out shopping and he tried on a khaki jacket and my mum said 'Christ, you look like you're going to start a revolution in Central America'

I was born in the 1970s and we were absolutely not 'humble in the presence of any adult' 😂

Anyway, there's a big difference between being rude/unpleasant and joking around as a family. My family always did a lot of the latter. We still do. It's never mean-spirited and it's never hurtful. If I wore a pair of trousers with a checked pattern and my mum didn't sing 'Rupert, Rupert The Bear' I'd actually be disappointed. Similarly she would fully expect me to say 'All right, Alexis Colby' when she wears a bright jacket and large earrings.

😂😂😂

“That’s very you…”

Her favourite disdainful comment.

@BluntAzureDreamer your DH is funny, PMSL at his descriptions.

My 16yo DS showed me a picture of Shakira from last nights World Cup half time show and said “she’s two years younger than you”. Little fucker!!!

Oh my gosh this thread is comedy gold!!!

🤣

Weirdly, as an infant teacher, I get complimented all the time for any old shit I wear. But the one and only time I wore my denim dungaree dress, a member of senior management said "cute dress. Who are you dressed as?" Thought I was introducing a new story and committing to the role.

Youtube. I introduced my kids to all my favourite kids programmes through it.

My DS (27) thought he'd tell me how he hadn't seen my hips since he was five!

(I've lost six stone).

Mine was born in 2010 and she knows. We had a DVD and they sell Bagpuss soft toys. Do you not know any cartoons/kids tv shows from before you were born?

I was in final stages of giving up lowlighting in favour of "it's white, get used to it". But I thought I'd just go for a stylistic trend: accent lowlights at the front (think Cruella de Vil). Asked DD for her opinion. She said: "You look like a badger".
I still love her.

I tried a jacket with epaulets on in John Lewis. When I came out of the changing room with it on my husband clicked his heels and saluted. I did not buy it.

Back in the 2010s I had a grey hooded poncho thing which I thought was very chic until my teenage daughter took one look at me and said ‘Why are you dressed as a Dementor mum?’ Also… if you want brutal - try bring a teacher who gets a new haircut.

But but but … the Tombliboos have stripes not polka dots!!

Doesn't she know her Night Garden fashion?

So glad I have a boy 😄