Dresses on Girls

[Mother2many]

I'm I unreasonable to think that younger girls who wear dresses should also wear "bloomers/shorts" or something under their dress so, their panties don't show?

My daughter is turning 7 next weekend, and she still makes sure she has something under her dress, esp, if its a short/shorter one...

Yes, it depends on what she is doing too... Going for a nice supper/concert, no.... something underneath isn't necessary, as she won't be laying on the floor, playing, climbing on the monkey bars, etc.etc.

Maybe I'm just paranoid, but when I see a bunch of kids sitting on the ground playing, chances are the girls don't worry about their panties showing...

jmho...

yes zukie they should have infact my dd is the same age as 1 of yours and back then there was some erm frilly creations going around im sure you couldve picked up a bloomer or 2

Sometimes DD goes on the beach is just a bikini or swimsuit - so in effect, just the pants and no dress.
When she was little she has been known to just be in pants at times.

Bad mum obviously.

she needs 1 of those bathing huts hula

Stick her in a pair of leggings under her dress, if it bothers you? If I had a DD I'd probably dress her like that anyway so she didn't have to worry about whether her dress was flying up when she ran/ climbed trees/ rode her bike.

and those ostrich feather hats can you remember them MIl knitted dd loads i was scared she would choke on a feather

bloomers

I'm that anyone would worry about a small childs pants showing under a dress.

I also find the word 'panties' to be irritatingly twee.

YANBU.

My mother never stopped my sister and I from showing our knickers when we were little and we are both total slappers now.

Don't girls tuck their dresses in the bottom of their knickers any more when they're on the monkey bars or doing handstands? That's what we did back in my day!

Oh are they still around I have seen them on market stalls my girls were dressed in a lot of valour leggings pinafores dresses , they now hate looking at the pictures , they say more valour mother (tbh i dont know if that is how you spell valour )

Only babies and 90 year olds wear bloomers. Does it really matter?

Some of the more "mature" mumsnetters amongst us may recall when we started school (called infants then - none of this modern day primary stuff) for school PE no-one had PE kit - just vest (do people still wear them?) tucked into knickers and then prancing barefoot in the school hall - boys and girls alike. And, shock horror. we all got "changed" in the classroom - no separate changing rooms for us

Fgs I have 3 daughters, the oldest is turning 7 next week and I couldn't believe that a couple of "school mums" had this idea as well. One of them actually told me that if they were me they'd make dd wear leggings under a dress. Funny enough she didn't take it that well when I told her if I were her I'd stop my son looking at classmates knickers.

I have no issues/worries at all with their pants showing, they are children - the world is not going to stop if my dd does a handstand and shows the school her pants. I stopped my daughter wearing trousers to school as they were made of a nasty material and her bottom got hot, sweaty and itchy.

we had to do it in pants and vests if we forgot gym Kit stoatie or go to the lost property box so we just did it in the undies and nobody cared well not untill further up the school ,

DD had the coolest pink pair of dessert boots i loved them

DD1 wears leggings under her dresses but only because I force her into clothes that she outgrew years ago. She's an average 4.5yo and some of her tops dresses are 18-24 months :o

I can't remember where i got them her dad used to go hill walking and she had a little baby pait of hiking boots she wore with short dungareees poor kid no wonder she laughs at the photies

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What? Bloomers? I am grateful if my DD (soon 4) wears any clothes at all, apart from her ballet costume. Your problem has never occured to me.

However, recently I sent her to pre-school and I hadn't checked and sent her in without any knickers. They noticed 5 min in when she flashed per private bits.

Panties - ewwwww!

YABVU (where has the OP gone, btw?)

DD went to a party without any knickers on once. I only realised when they all started jumping on the bouncy castle...

MN is a revelation at times! The things people worry about!

It doesn't matter to me in the least if my dd flashes her knickers. She is 7 years old FFS! However, she did go into school recently with shorts on under her dress, as lots of her friends were doing it - apparently it was to stop their knickers from showing when they did gymnastics in the playground. I was a bit but went along with it because I assumed it was just something that the kids had cooked up between them. I'm now wondering if it started with the parents instead!