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.

Either train him to stand somewhere not-in-the-way, or leave him at home.

Where do I sign up?

Can you train them to MOVE out of the kitchen as well? Or go in there alone?

DH and I would just do the lunch.

We rarely clothes shop together, just for the simple reason neither of us like it. I buy a lot online. I like clothes just not shopping for them and DH well he only buys when something falls apart, or I see something online for him. We shop for house items e.g. New bed/sofa but never with the kids.

I do the food shop on a weds/Friday so DH is asleep and kids are at school/preschool/childcare. We do often pop to Asda/Aldi/sains on the way back from somewhere and all go in...this normally turns into we need bread and milk into a semi food shop.

Hold on a mo, what's this about DP's not coming food shopping and staying home/going to the park etc to watch the kids? I never go without DH. How else would he help me choose what meals we're going to have that month? He has to eat it too so it's not all up to me. If we don't have a sitter then I guess our kids come too. Never been a problem. It's not like they play up cos we don't let em.

'you shop, then you go for lunch.'

Is anyone else howling laughing at the inanity? I feel like I'm reading the script from Acorn Antiques

Food shopping we just do a list. One of us goes with the list.

I like shopping with DH because he is very honest and will give it to me straight. He also is a bit of a bad influence and if I can't choose between clothes he will suggest I buy them all. On the other hand my mum can't go shopping with my dad because he gets bored and impatient, and is also quite tight so she lies about the price of things or hides them in the wardrobe and then claims she's had it ages

It is weird.

Clothes shopping is dull dull dull. DH and I draw straws for which unlucky bastard has to do it at the weekend if someone needs new clothes. The lucky one gets to stay home with the kids (I'm always stunned that people take their children shopping at the weekend: havent they got something, anything better to do?)

If I need anything I go alone, during the week.

It's ghastly. I don't want to run the gauntlet of dementors in the man crèche outside the bloody changing rooms. Leave them at home.

Absolute nightmare, I can't have dh any where near. If we're out together and I want to get something I need to try and get rid of him. He thinks 20 mins is a reasonable length of time, and is often back in 10. Usually I just give up and go, or buy something without trying it. Sometimes try and hide from him, lurking around the lingerie watching him striding around looking for me. Much better to go alone.

@aweewhilelonger don't you need the kids with you to try stuff on them? They can't go when they're at school so that's just weekends left? Or school holidays.

It is down to NEED as opposed to these couples using it as a day out - nobody needs a day out tha badly!!

DH has no patience whatsoever in department stores or shopping centres, to the extent I buy most of his clothes for him, except for suits or shoes.

The only time I take him shopping with me is if we pop in to certain boutiques near us. I love the clothes, but the staff are the type to be literally in the changing room with you, making personal comments whether you ask for them or not. So I take DH to run interference and It's usually quite successful. He has been in lingerie shops with me too for the same reason, but he wouldn't sit outside changing rooms if it made other customers feel awkward.

I never attempt clothes shopping with the kids, except in dire emergencies.

How else would he help me choose what meals we're going to have that month

Food shopping is different because men appear to be better at that. I see lots of well trained men pushing trollies or teaching their small children to do inane things like hide in the shit roll and the jump out at their poor unsuspecting mothers.

My DH would rather, I'm sure, shit in his hand and clap than come food shopping. I buy a selection of items which make up a variety of meals and then when I come home I ask him what he fancies for supper. It seems a lot more simple than two of us wasting a couple of hours in the hellhole that is Sainsbury's/Waitrose on a Sunday.

Could the location of shops be why a lot of couples clothes shop together? We're really rural so going to the big town is an 'effing day out. Makes sense for DH to go too so we can at least get lunch and spend time together.

I need an honest opinion - DP is honest, friends aren't always.

I cannot think of anything worse than dragging mine around the shops waiting whilst I try things on, it would be hell for me and hell for him.

He cannot even bear to go food shopping with me as I take forever to choose things.

Then again, I don't even like going shopping with friends, male or female, not if I really need to get an outfit. If its window shopping and leisurely coffees and lunch then fine.

The sight of those utterly miserable men pacing outside changing rooms makes me inwardly smile, I always wonder why they agreed to do it in the first place. Each to their own.

We are rural as well, we drive for about an hour at least or get a train if we want to buy clothes. We do but a lot online for that reason.

I sometimes pick something up in a nearby market down when out on my own with DS but rarely

I have never been shopping with DH, ever. Not clothes shopping, not even to the supermarket. I'd rather eat my own eyeballs. It's what the internet is for
We've been married for 19 years.

My DH was great yesterday - we were in town and popped into The White Company, where he stuck to me like glue and shook his head at everything I pulled out, saying I either had it already or he didn't like it.

Then he persuaded me to try on two things I would never have had the confidence to try on alone and they actually really suited me. I nearly always pay though!

AnyFucker I once had to go to Sainsbury's on Christmas Eve (long story, plans cancelled). There were whole families mum, dad, primary-aged child, toddler, baby in the hour-long queue for the checkouts. WHY would anyone do that?

We're very rural - we're farmers.

Shopping for me is a chore and not something I have ever tried to jolly up into a "day out".

If we want a day out we go to the races or our with friends, somewhere with the horses or out to lunch. My idea of "quality time" is not sitting my DH on some salubrious changing room chair whilst I parade in front of him.

@thoushallnotpass

Nope, they are 9 and 6. I take all their measurements and buy what they need. Anything they don't like / doesn't fit, I take back. I'd rather do that than have them there trying stuff on: ooh, the very thought makes me feel ill-)