Strange comment from couple re children’s clothes.

[Uptheapplesandpearstobed]

I’ve always taken pride in my children’s outfits. Always ironed, Boden etc.

I was at the local tea shop yesterday when an elderly man said to my two young children ‘ooo dressed for a wedding are we’ and his wife snapped at him saying ‘no, just a parent who dresses them properly’

I felt quite uncomfortable that he felt my children were going to a wedding because they were in a dress.

Does the colour fade? I quite like the look of some of this boden stuff

They are very pretty but not something I'd put anywhere near a park. Were they matching? A bit twee if so, I hated wearing the same as my sibling.

Tops and leggings are more suited for the park- they could still be a tunic etc

The dress is very pretty. It looks victorian. I'm sure my girls would have worn them to the park but i wouldn't have liked to have to get grass stains, juice stains etc off it. I don't like to do high temperature washes and I have too much to do to have to spend too much needless time looking after my kids clothes.

I also never iron or very rarely. Again, I have too many other things that I love doing to waste it doing that but if you enjoy it then I don't see the problem.

Just seen they're 45 pounds too! More money than sense tbh

If you love pretty dresses, why did you buy that one?

Gorgeous dress! The sort of thing I’d have loved when I was little and still love tbh (and my DD hates, per the dragon/welly combos upthread.) they’re going to get stains on their clothes no matter what colour, does blue with stains really matter compared to white with stains? If the kids are happy, that’s what matters.

This the most middle class, mumsnetty thing I've read for some time...

😭

Surely the DC were not dressed in the same dress

So looking at the boden website, these dresses look more comfortable and practical whilst still being pretty

Do the snobs round your way shudder when they see the ghastly working class Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte on TV?

Oh sure. But i liked it as a student too. I've always ironed - I do it in front of TV.

Never ironing a single thing is unthinkable to me. But then I like crisp bed linen and clothes that look like they have been properly pressed. 😊

The dress screams special occasion to me.

Jumped the shark now, op.

I like crisp bed linen

i prefer my bed linen to be soft, not crisp.

Sure.... And you couldn't think of a single reason why it looked like they were going somewhere like a wedding rather than the park?

The royal children dress pretty casually the rest of the time, those formal outfits are for when they are “working”. So yes copying the royals for everyday wear I would consider working class actually.

Children dressed the same makes me cringe a little. Let them have their own identities. It seems lazy to me.

@SoupDragon ooo no, nothing beats crisp cool bed linen, but then I am a scratchy towel person too.

@Uptheapplesandpearstobed

So your DDs were both wearing the same ironed pretty white good quality dress from Boden and you wondered why a random old man asked if they were going to a wedding 😂

This thread is just too funny. I think it's the most #firstworldproblem we've had.

Congratulations OP - you have raised the bar

Why did that make you feel uncomfortable?

It wouldn't bother me in the slightest. They were an elderly couple and clearly werent being rude. Life is too short to worry about this sort of thing.

What an absolutely mad outfit for the park. No other words!

My children are still young therefore they cannot climb upon the apparatus so the outfit was suitable for sitting on my picnic rug (White Company)

Ok this is definitely a wind up

😂😂😂

It is most definitely not a wind up, I just thought as I’d been ripped to shreds over my Boden dresses that I’d throw in a treat for you all 😉