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To dislikethenotion of 'school run' outfits

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Sleepyfergus · 13/06/2015 17:26

Sets my teeth on edge when people describe outfits as being suitable or appropriate for 'school run' like it has to be of a certain standard or type to be deemed ok.

I think it's a bit sad that some folk might feel pressurised to look or dress a certain way before they can drop off or pick up at school.

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DinosaursRoar · 13/06/2015 18:42

oh but yes, those who get changed for the school run, why? So far, I have only changed once before the afternoon pick up, but that was when DC2 completely covered me in paint, other than messy play related situations, why does anyone change when they get back from the school run in the mornings then changed again to go out?

(are you all just fabulous parents who do really messy, development play with your toddlers every afternoon?)

AuntieStella · 13/06/2015 18:45

No, we just had particularly filthy toddlers.

merrymouse · 13/06/2015 18:45

Well, I'd look a complete twat walking the dog in the woods in a summer dress and flip flops

Why? Flip flops might not suit the ground conditions (although sometimes they are fine). I see loads of people in summer dresses in the countryside when it is summer.

Sallystyle · 13/06/2015 18:46

YABU because you don't understand how the word is used on MN and how it came about.

It doesn't even mean something to wear for the school run.

Bitching about an inside joke you don't understand is pretty funny really.

merrymouse · 13/06/2015 18:48

There would have to be serious amounts of paint, flour, grass stains and mud for me to bother changing for the school run. It's not as though the children aren't often covered in paint and mud when I pick them up. Sometimes the teachers are too.

Sallystyle · 13/06/2015 18:50

Saw it on here a week out two ago, talking about a school run dress!

I'm judging. I am. I just thought 'Get a life'

It's ok because I am judging too. I am.

I am judging that you are judging others because you couldn't be arsed to read that thread where there was an explanation. You came to the conclusion that these women need to get a life because you simply didn't read the explanation. That kind of makes you look a bit silly.

merrymouse · 13/06/2015 18:50

It doesn't even mean something to wear for the school run.

According to this thread it does mean something to wear for the school run. Also, Boden always seems to be suggesting that their clothes can be worn on the school run.

(I'm sure they used to suggest that you could wear 'pull-on' trousers to do the school run, but that might have been before wearing pyjamas to school was frowned upon…)

ILiveOnABuildsite · 13/06/2015 18:52

Picking dd from preschool (attached to main school) last week at lunch time there was another mother there picking up her dd in a hairdressers black cape and obvious wet hair dye on. I assumed she had mistimed her home dye and had to go out to pick up her dd in the colour developing period. I thought it was quite funny and brave.

Dh mentioned before that on his commute to work he often sees the same woman walking her kids to school in an above the knee nightie (sometimes with a dressing gown if a bit cold) and slippers. She also sometimes has a mug of tea she brought along from home.

Sallystyle · 13/06/2015 18:59

I don't know why it matters if people want to look nice for the school run anyway.

Sometimes I am lazy and sit around in crappy clothes or PJ bottoms and need to get dressed for the school run. So I put on something easy that looks decent. I am not sure why that means women need to get a life.

My first post was wrong as it is about the school run, but not just the school run. It's an item of clothing that is easy to put on and looks nice when you need to pop out but have been sitting around in lazy clothes or sun bathing in the garden.

This was the latest explanation for the SRD posted in S&B

SRD is short-hand for a go anywhere quickly dress, not specifically for the school run but harks back to the early days of MN where lots of us who have been round donkeys years had toddlers that we would be playing in the paddling pool with but need something to throw on to do the school run, hence the SRD was born.

I am not sure why anyone could have anything against that.

ILiveOnABuildsite · 13/06/2015 19:03

Just wanted to clarify that I was judging or criticising the women I mentioned in my previous post. I thought the hair dye one was really funny. And clearly the one in the nightie isn't bothered so why should I care, but it's a funny story to tell anyway.

merrymouse · 13/06/2015 19:05

Anyway, I have just looked at the "Is This the school run dress" thread and looking at the links, I don't think it is about wearing a practical dress because your other clothes are too dirty.

It seems to me that it is about claiming half an hour a day to wear a completely impractical dress, which is fair enough.

PattiODoors · 13/06/2015 19:05

Aye U2.

Mind you my school run days are looooooong gorn. Tfft. Hurhur.

merrymouse · 13/06/2015 19:09

Rather than overalls, I think I will do something like this for my men's school run line. Colourful, smart, but goes well with flats.

To dislikethenotion of 'school run' outfits

Notso · 13/06/2015 19:10

It's very much a SAHM thing, which irritates me as it's not very inclusive.

It's clothes, I assume people who work wear them too.

The term 'school run dress' has been around MN for years. I cannot see why people get their school run knickers in such a twist about it tbh.

TheSkiingGardener · 13/06/2015 19:11

Ok, I didn't know it was an MN in joke. But there genuinely are a handful of people at DS's school who do care what they are dressed in for the school run and for whom it would not be a shorthand.

I do judge them I'm afraid. I think they're very insecure about themselves, they seem worried that others approve of them Which is such a shame.

merrymouse · 13/06/2015 19:13

The term 'school run dress' has been around MN for years. I cannot see why people get their school run knickers in such a twist about it tbh.

Probably because many people haven't been around mumsnet for years, and won't be 'in' on the joke and will take the term at face value.

Tapasfairy · 13/06/2015 19:15

Yes I wear school run clothes. I also wear dog walking clothes/ gardening clothes. Cleaning clothes, excercising clothes.

I change more than anyone! It's a nice middle class school. Most people are dressed up.

On Friday it was hot, I wore short shorts and a vest in my garden...on the school run I wore a lovely summer dress.

My husband is amused by it. If I'm cleaning I wear joggers, I can't go to school in joggers!

EdithWeston · 13/06/2015 19:17

"Probably because many people haven't been around mumsnet for years, and won't be 'in' on the joke and will take the term at face value."

Or they could try reading the threads?

You know, joining in.

GobblersKnob · 13/06/2015 19:18

It's exactly as posted above, naff all to do with over trying, it's something to throw on super quick in the summer in order to leave the house, when it's so hot that you are hanging around the house in a bikini or massive knickers or absolutely nothing, which I think most people will agree isn't particularly suitable for the school run.

NinkyNonkers · 13/06/2015 19:19

I have clothes for all sorts of things. Gardening/allotment: oldest torn jeans etc which I would wear to town/out for lunch/school/seeing friends...out in general. So I would run in and change from this.

Dog walking: v old jeans that can go inside boots, old coat with big pockets. Wouldn't necessarily change from this unless soaked.

School run would just be shorthand for going out in public in my book.

NinkyNonkers · 13/06/2015 19:20

Bugger...which I wouldn't wear to town etc etc.

DinosaursRoar · 13/06/2015 19:37

U2theEdge - am confused, do you do the morning school run in your pjs and get changed just for the afternoon one, or do you mean you would wear pjs if you didn't have to go on the school run at all? or you change back into pjs after the morning school run then change again into a 'school run outfit' for the afternoon school run? (I think I might be lazier than you, once i'm dressed, I'll just wear that until bedtime short of some sort of disaster meaning I need to get changed)

The "school run dress" thread for me was basically "casual summer dresses that aren't sun/holiday dresses" - there was a few people who posted dresses that I would say were more "summer work wear" dresses, but most stated that they weren't suitable for "school run dress" catagory, and some people did post more what I would consider to be "holiday dresses". Some people's idea of a 'casual day dress' is a bit smarter than mine, and lots wouldn't suit me unless I could wear them with heels (I have short legs), so would be ruled out, but generally, it was a thread of nice dresses for a SAHM summer uniform.

MrsMcColl · 13/06/2015 19:42

Have decided this is a thing for SAHMs.

MamaLazarou · 13/06/2015 19:45

YANBU - I am see the School Run Dress thing on S&b quite often and find the idea baffling.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I turn up to collect/deposit DS in whatever apparel I happen to be wearing that day and never give it a second thought.

merrymouse · 13/06/2015 19:47

Yes I wear school run clothes. I also wear dog walking clothes/ gardening clothes. Cleaning clothes, excercising clothes.

dog walking clothes - wellingtons if the ground is wet.

Gardening clothes - gloves sometimes.

Cleaning clothes - rubber gloves if necessary.

I do wear different exercising clothes, but will often put them on and wear them until I go running.

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