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To not like the way Prince George is dressed (and think it's often not weather appropriate)

215 replies

Totality22 · 02/05/2015 21:59

OK I have said it....

I am in London and it was fucking freezing today OK maybe I am exaggerating a little but it was NOT shorts weather

I am not anti Royal, I tuned in to hear about the baby's safe arrival and wee George is just a cutie-pie but I don't like how they dress him.

So AIBU?

OP posts:
SetPhasersTaeMalkie · 03/05/2015 09:39

Both my brothers had 'good' outfits like that in the 70s and 80s. They both wore shorts and long socks to primary school throughout winter.

And we all had those sandals. We were taken en masse to the shoe shop every May and kitted out. I got red and brothers had brown. Happy days.

I don't think he would freeze. And he is very, very cute.

TrollshaveLittleWillies · 03/05/2015 09:42

He looked like a kid in the LadyBird 'Janet and John' books. I presume he gets to choose his own clothes some of the time.

KatieScarlettreregged · 03/05/2015 09:42

Judge away Soup Grin

To not like the way Prince George is dressed (and think it's often not weather appropriate)
usualsuspect333 · 03/05/2015 09:46

Forgive me for not fawning all over the Royals.

I forgot my place for a minute.

merrymouse · 03/05/2015 09:56

You don't have to fawn over the royals or even like them, however at the moment they exist and they have a job.

If he were wearing an 'of the moment' outfit from Next, it would probably

A) date really quickly
B) look scruffy to many people

The same restrictions apply to his parents.

BeaufortBelle · 03/05/2015 10:00

I thought he looked lovely. I am also in London and regularly see small children not dissimilarly dressed - funnily enough most often they are American rather than British.

usualsuspect333 · 03/05/2015 10:01

My kids wore jeans. I think they have already been judged on this thread.

hels71 · 03/05/2015 10:04

I thought he looked lovely.

Sparklingbrook · 03/05/2015 10:06

Hopefully once the name has been announced and criticised/gushed over we will not have to give any of this another thought.

LaChatte · 03/05/2015 10:08

I thought he looked lovely, and that the clothes were appropriate for the 10 seconds of time outside and several hours inside a warm hospital.
He looks timeless.

dietcokeandwine · 03/05/2015 10:12

It's probably just as well there was no internet when Prince Harry was born. Look at those pictures of William being taken in by a suited Prince Charles to visit his newborn brother. Shorts, and a short sleeved little blouse thing. And sandals. In November.

There would have been online meltdown Grin

I think George looks cute, if a little old fashioned. But I suspect that's exactly the look they are going for.

MintJulip · 03/05/2015 10:13

I thought he looked super cute and super smart bless him. Its a big day for him meeting his sibling why not dress for the occasion. How on earth can he get cold in the less than a min he was outisde?

wfrances · 03/05/2015 10:14

i love how they dress him ,even dh commented on his cuteness.

Sootgremlin · 03/05/2015 10:15

It is a favourite British pastime to gauge the temperature of other people's children and judge them accordingly Grin

My mother is never happier than when she is declaring someone's baby to be cold.

He looked fine, he wasn't wearing a waistcoat and tie, little boy in traditional formal wear for 15 minutes, get over it. People see a photograph and think that must be what happens all the time.

I don't like jeans for babies when they are hard material, but have put my toddler dd in some as they are very soft denim with soft linings so are quite comfy as well as being hard wearing on the outside for crawling and climbing. You don't get a lot of choice for little girls if you don't want thin leggings or tights.

Artandco · 03/05/2015 10:15

I don't like wearing jeans as an adult as they are not particularly comfortable. Hence I don't put them on babies or children who aren't old enough to ask for them. My eldest is 5, he doesn't own any Jean type trousers yet, but I would get them in future if he wants. Dh never wears Jeans and neither do many we know so they don't know the difference

SwirlyThingAlert · 03/05/2015 10:15

YABU. I think the way he dresses is adorable. I love all the little dungarees and stuff he wears. Proper little baby clothes and not mini grown man.
Much better than jeans on a small baby, which looks horible, which I'm sure there was a post about when he was even smaller saying that's what he should be wearing!

mousmous · 03/05/2015 10:18

we only see moments of him. wisrly chosen moments.

when he is taken to the playground (I really hope he does), he probably wears normal stuff plus some toddlereque fiid in his hair as disguise.

PacificDogwood · 03/05/2015 10:20

My mum adores how he looks, is dressed, has his hair - just like my brother in the 1970 Grin

I think the way he's dressed is v much a conservative, moneyed 'look' - can be seen on in various posh baby shops even here in The Sticks.
Not my cup of tea, but nobody is going to publish my kids' photographs in decades to come, so I can see how the aim is for 'time-less' and 'classic'.

PacificDogwood · 03/05/2015 10:20

For the record, I intensely dislike that sharp side-parting on little boys. I prefer the more tousled look Grin

OneMagnumisneverenough · 03/05/2015 10:30

He has a big cows lick so I would imagine that the smart side parting doesn't last without a lot of training.

To the poster who said upper class men don't wear jeans, William was wearing jeans....

He was dressed perfectly fine. He wouldn't be cold and whilst it's not a style I ever went for I'm too common it's perfectly fitting for a toddler Prince on a formal occasion.

Topseyt · 03/05/2015 10:35

Nothing wrong with his outfit.

He was going virtually straight from a warm car to a maternity unit which is probably heated to tropical temperatures. Outfit perfect for that.

21 months old isn't the delicate newborn stage anymore. He wouldn't have got cold in the thirty seconds he was outside.

WD41 · 03/05/2015 10:36

I'm as anti royal as they come but I quite like the way they dress him. Like a little boy rather than a mini adult.

Callaird · 03/05/2015 10:42

My charge is the same age as Prince George. He was in shorts and jumper yesterday! He is a real hot body, some kids are.

Car seat guidelines now state coats are a danger and he was carried all of 10 metres to the hospital doors, hospitals are always roasting hot. He wouldn't have been cold.

I was a nanny in Kensington when William was young, he went to the same preschool as my charge, for official outings he always looked like a child from the '50's but at school he wore jeans and sweatshirts. George was on an official outing so dressed as the royals have been dressing forever. He probably doesn't dress like that for lazy days at home, I bet he even has tracksuit trousers!!

I think he looked adorable.

Sootgremlin · 03/05/2015 10:51

Ds didn't wear jeans until he was three, there was a lot more choice of different trouser types for him before then though. He wanted jeans to be like daddy. He prefers soft trousers still though.

I find I am very restricted by budget as to what my children wear - what they have in supermarkets or things which are gifted to us, so my children aren't always dressed in something exactly to my taste anyway.

Luckily my ds doesn't think dinosaurs or tractors are naff, he loves them.

Nanny0gg · 03/05/2015 13:09

It's the long socks, buckle shoes and side parting that make him look like a child from the 50s.

Ankle socks, lace-up shoes (wouldn't dare suggest Velcro for formal!) and a more modern hair cut would make him look like a child of the 21st century!