Exh showed up looking like a fashion model!

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Skinny distressed jeans, boots, superdry leather type thing with fur collar, freshly shaved, hair in a quiff

Me & kids were like
After 10 years of not bothering to shower properly (once a week?) or brush his teeth and stinking the place out with his beer/fag breath aibu to feel a bit bemused/amused??

Lighthearted of course he is entitled to sort himself out and why do I even care ? No I definitely don't want him back
aren't superdry jackets expensive? Bastard,I'm scraping the cupboards for t tonight still happier though

My ex took up fell running after he left us. He also grew his hair long, despite the receding hairline making him look utterly ridiculous. This was a man who barely moved out of his armchair - he now does Tough Guy events and Ultra Mountain Marathons.

He also arrives at school to collect DS wearing his sweaty, salt encrusted skin tight lycra running shorts, reeking of stale sweat as he never washes his kit. He can't understand why DS doesn't want him to collect him on Fridays from school any more...

iwud, my 15 year old had a SuperDry coat about 2 years ago and even though we are on the poverty line, refused point blank to ever wear it again, this year. He spent his entire christmas money in the January sales on a Penguin duffle coat!

Man on Mumsnet: "Me and the wife broke up, she never took care of herself, never showered and always looked a mess. Turn up at her house to get the children and shes wearing make up and great clothes. What a dick. oh how i laughed"

People of Mumsnet "YABVVVU, maybe she feels better now she is not stuck with you. Maybe she needed to make herself feel better after the relationships breakdown!" etc etc

Or maybe he's simply trying to impress his usually much younger new wifey.

That's why it's funny.

Lets hear it for Super Dry Dad!!!! Hip hip....

This has really made me laugh
Esp the mowed lawn for the cat and the unwashed Tupperware

Has anyone mentioned their husband wearing "great clothes" NeverGonna?

absolutely vile thread. I'd be ripped apart for laughing at any woman who dared to wear something that, in my view, she was too old for or didn't have the figure for.

Oh come on BillMasen...I think vile is a bit strong!

Would you squeeze a middle aged paunch into a pair of skinny jeans and grown a ponytail from your bald head and dye it black?

I totally agree that appropriate dressing applies to both genders though...I'll give you that.

They also often taking up cycling and wear inappropriate lycra

not sure why but the 'mowed lawn' phrase reeks of double entendre.

BillMasen
Sense of humour failure much

amarmai...quite

Flat He wears skinny jeans and has a ponytail

My ex turned up one day to pick up the boys in suede Crocs. I kid you not, actual suede Crocs. At this point I couldn't look at his face so often spoke to his feet. I gave a slightly hysterical snort of laughter which I think I managed to get away with turning into a cough.

He's an odd one, though. He left me for the OW, but he's oddly protective of his new life. I'm not allowed to pick up the boys from his house. On the odd occasion (twice in 5 years) that it's been unavoidable, he actually draws the blinds in case I try to peer in. TBH I wouldn't have noticed but my DS1 pointed it out.

TheFormidable - you are right about the cycling and lycra. My ex found God (especially handy for those character witnesses in court who he no doubt dropped like hot turds straight after he got away with a suspended sentence) - and in one of his church's photos, I noticed, back in the time when he was trying to gather new godly pals, appeared prominently wearing the same cream coloured jacket, matching trousers and... Jesus sandals.

Most of his FB pictures are himself in cheap B-Twin lycra cycling gear that he clearly thinks makes him look like Lance Armstrong. (He's about 48). He's the sort of bloke you imagine will eventually have to resort to a mail order bride.

Suede Crocs, btw! Didn't know they even existed! Brilliant!