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.

Lol I should hope I don't look like a Russian sailor!
DS meant the shirt made me look like a Russian sailor, of course I looked it up, white shirt somewhat narrow blue stripes but horizontal not diagonal, like mine. Now if I wore the shirt with that strange dinner plate on a brim hat they wear.... :-)

They wear distinctive blue and white striped t-shirts, and in summer they don't wear jackets when they're off-duty, so in Russian port cities (and indeed in Moscow when I was there) you often see a lot of them wandering around dressed like that in their down-time / shore leave.

Depends what the new item looks like. I think it is funny when my daughter tells me the truth about my clothes

Those bloody floppy velvet hats, I had them in multiple colours, I blame Blossom!

I know what you were wearing without clicking the link! I liked them too and was backing up a woman in Sainsburys last week who was buying them despite her family telling her she looked like Mr Blobby.

Agree, nomination for classics?

I work in a primary school library and wow pre teen girls are so brutal. They are generally very complimentary of what I am wearing and comment on clothes being new etc. They love my sparkly nails and earrings etc. On Monday I was looking pretty good or so I thought, and one 12 year old told me it was a "brave" look and another said I looked really nice apart from the bit of yellow on my top, then ensued a long discussion between that group of girls as to whether it was yellow or green but all sides agreed it was not needed and wondered why the designers decided to ruin the top by adding it in - I will never wear that top to work again!!

🤣🤣🤣

A couple of weeks ago I was going out for a few drinks and I wore a green skirt that had thin black and white stripes in with a red top. As I went out, my dd (14) said I looked like a watermelon.

I think she was quite perceptive - I did actually look like a watermelon. I haven't thrown the skirt or top away .

I have no idea what a tombliboo is....then I googled and seriously wtf....they are creepy nightmare fodder...

This thread has everything. Definitely a classic. It has kept me very entertained during an extremely long multi-leg journey.

I had Kermit when I bought a bright green t shirt!

That's In The Night Garden all over, to be honest. Hallucinations and/or nightmares.

I like that it made more sense to my pre-schooler than it did to me. We were watching it and a weird thing came down from the sky which looked like a cross between a giant fish, a zeppelin and a fairground ride.

Me: What on Earth is that?

DD: [sounding annoyed that I’d ask such a silly question] Pinky Ponk!

A few years ago, I had struggled into my wetsuit after putting on some weight during covid.

I was quite pleased I could do it up.

DS, then 11 told me 'you look like a manatee'
😳cheers!

My teen did tell me that my using scented candles while working from home was my 'only Basic Mum habit'.

TBF, at least they said it was my only one! 😅

For work at home, I wear men's size 2XS T-shirts (baggy but not drowning) with elasticated cuff jogging bottoms.
DH says I look like a 14 year old chav boy on my way out shoplifting, especially if I put my baseball cap on for dog walking in that get-up 😂

So they share the cooking and housecleaning equally, do their own laundry and don't get driven anywhere? If not I'd have taken that opportunity to suggest I stop all Basic Mum functions right away. 😂

(edited for gender - not sure why I assumed DC was a teenage girl)

This thread is hilarious. I weer mainly black and have a dark bob (and was a goth) and I get called Emo Mum and Lego Head Mum.

I've just bought the most gorgeous dress

Off white with blue flowers and green stems

Not even tried it on when dp walked in-'my mum has that pattern on her curtains'

No she bloody doesnt-her curtain patterns are pink!

Saying that,he has a baseball cap that he loves and I told him he looks like the sort of bloke you'd get your kids to avoid at the park

He doesn't care...

DS raised an eyebrow when I tried on a new oversized jumper that a friend gave me and said “Hello, Dark Lord”.

I wasn’t entirely sure who that refers to but I’ve never worn it!

Aah this one isn't nice 😕

The comment about Herr Flick made me laugh though.

And you never questioned it?

We haven't met most people on this planet, so according to that rule, most of the world doesn't deserve our respect. Apart from that, great idea though!

Different views here on how kids can talk to their parents. I don't know the tone of voice used in all these families. It seems to me that kids learning nice manners is a good thing - especially with the people you live with, as manners often slip with them. That doesn't mean never teasing or laughing, as some claim.

As for the responses like "I'm sorry you had abusive parents"... Was that our idea of light-hearted banter?

But it’s not a criticism to say something is fine for you but not them. I’d say that to my mum and vice versa! She can look lovely in a floral frock, but I’d look like I'm off to milk my organic goats in a birthing yurt I knitted from my own armpit hair. If she wears my clothes people ask her who died.

I had one. My dad told me I looked like a sad deflated mushroom. He was right but I loved it anyway!