To think it's weird when women take their DHs clothes shopping with them?

[Madmotherintheattic]

I mean when the blokes sit on those chairs outside the changing rooms and give them opinions on every outfit they come out in. I don't mean special occasion outfits but everyday stuff. And then accompany them round the shop feeling material and picking out styles? I see it a lot in M&S. Is it weird or is it me? I don't know whether to feel happy for them that their husbands are so involved or think I should just mind my own business, but instead, I find myself thinking I'd rather stab myself in the eye with a pencil than take DH to watch me try on skirts in M&S and comment on patterns and shapes.

I think you are being a bit judgey tbh. I don't live in england but shop there a few times a year. I often go round shops with my husband - we are on holiday together. (What sort of person goes on holiday to shop? A person who lives in a place with plenty of beaches and few shops!)

Haha, my DP is colour-blind so it's the other way around in our house. I get dragged along to make sure white shirts are white (nearly ended up with pink a few times) etc.

I know what you mean OP. You see some couples who are obviously both enjoying/coping with the process together but when one (male or female) is staring into space making it clear they'd rather be anywhere but there it does make me wonder why bother?

What I don't understand is why the partner has to come with the kids too

Same for food shopping

One of you stay at home with the kids, fgs. Why bring them to boring, inappropriate places so they can tantrum and make bloody nuisances of themself ?

Is it weird or is it me? It's you.

I could start another thread, entitled AIBU to think it's weird that some people are so bothered about random strangers' shopping partners?

I only like to shop alone. I can't understand shopping in pairs or groups. I haven't got the patience!

DH and I like shopping together. He has good taste and will often pick something really nice that I wouldn't have considered. I do buy things alone too but I value his input! My brother and dad are both good women's clothes shoppers too. So to me I'd be disappointed/think it's a bit lame if my husband had no interest.

I don't actively take mine. I just say I'm going to Meadowhall/Doncaster outlet/Castleford outlet etc and he announces he's coming. He then hangs around looking bored as I go through racks of stuff. Then I feel pressured and buy nothing. Then we come home because I feel he is not enjoying it/is bored etc.

I take him for a totally honest opinion if I need one...Every day shopping no way!

I must be very weird Dh buys out of my clothes I hate shopping and he has really good taste- stepping outside gender norms - the horror!

Most not out

Ooooh! I love the little Sofa of Shame that exists outside the changing rooms in some shops. It is always filled with blokes who look like they've lost the will to live.

I think that clothes shops should provide a sort of "play pen" for husbands/significant others - perhaps with a Scalextric, and some Meccano (for the older ones) and lego. It would keep them out of misery mischief,

My husband likes coming clothes shopping with me and it is rare that we are just buying for me.

My little boy loves going to the supermarket, we also often pop into the supermarket when we are walking home from town having been out for lunch/ feed the ducks/potter about the shops. It would be odd to make my husband and son stand outside

YY AnyFucker. This is why DCs need 2 parents. One to do the food shopping, the other to look after the DCs somewhere else .

It's not weird if it's helpful and companionable.

But I've stopped shopping in M&S lingerie department because of the number of men staring at me doing my perfectly normal browsing. Just fuck off.

I read this On the app and wondered why anyone would take their husbands clothes with them when they went shopping......

It depends.
I had an ex who insisted I came with him to buy clothes.
In hindsight I think it was so he could give his opinion on which clothes I bought.
I actually got bored with waiting for him to come out of the changing room, asking me my opinion on every item of clothing he ever bought.

Barbara..I think my comment was quite obviously about 2 parent families. Don't be a dick.

"What I don't understand is why the partner has to come with the kids too"

Oh gawd, yes, yeeesssssss. Why???

Yesterday, I lost count of the stress-ridden couples trudging around the aisles of clothes - accompanied by squabbling siblings, wailing toddlers, and mahoosive buggies.

I nearly fell all my length, when some random toddler got under foot and I simply didn't seem them

FFS stay at home with your kids, and let your partner shop alone. It is clearly a highly stressful, miserable for all of you, to shop en famile - and it's highly annoying for everyone else in the shop, too.

YANBU. It would never in a million years occur to me to take dh clothes shopping with me. Or anyone else, for that matter.

YANBU I find it really weird when the husbands hoover round their wives in the lingerie department in m&s and then sit on the chairs outside the fitting rooms waiting for them to try their stuff on. It just gives me the creeps

I don't think it's weird necessarily, just very not what my DH would ever, ever want to do.
DS1 (10) otoh, loves clothes shopping for others, himself, whoever really. He is the changing room male popping out into the shop and suggesting things. It's something he genuinely seems to enjoy and have absolutely no idea where he gets it from.

Not lingerie though. That would be strange.

Hoovering around your wife in the lingerie department? Now that IS weird...

If anyone hoovered around me I'd fucking love it.