Strange comment from couple re children’s clothes.

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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.

Is Boden a label? I am lost.

But stranger comments from you!

Reddit's gonna love this shit 😆

Sorry OP.
Please don't take any notice of anyone here or of the couple at the park.
Dress your children however you like.

The world has gone mad. Elderly man makes what he thinks is pleasant small-talk to lady with children.....that's all there is to it. Don't take offence, don't over analyse, don't tell him not to speak to you again, make some small talk back and move on.

In the world that we are currently live in I cannot believe you feel this is worth getting upset about.

Much congratulations on having money.

My children have been to the park in: primark shorts and T-shirts, pretty dresses from expensive stores, pretty dresses from less expensive stores and supermarkets and even princess dress up clothes. Nobody's said anything negative about them and even they did I wouldn't care. As long as the children are comfortable, able to play and happy then who cares where the clothes they are wearing are from? My 3 year old has a lot of dresses that probably look a bit more formal than you'd expect because they were handed down to her, she likes them and I'm not going to spend money on more summer dresses when she has loads.

I used to, when unhappily married to a man who expected such things. Freedom is a divorce and kid with paint on their creases.

Are people only allowed to post (and not be attacked) if they dress their kids in Primark/supermarket and/or second-hand? Or are people who choose to spend THEIR money on other brands allowed to participate?

It's getting a bit old pushing people to literally apologize or hide if they're lucky to earn a good living and spend money on anything deemed MC.

We all do the best we can for our kids. Judging others because they chose to buy something that you wouldn't is just poor taste.

It’s the type of brand that people deliberately buy because they think it makes them look “middle class”. It’s in the same league as buying the monogram Louis Vuitton bags - thinking it shows you have money.

It’s one thing and very normal to have items from Boden, just as you would have items from a variety of stores. But building a child’s wardrobe from Boden is a bit odd.

I bought some Boden clothes that were Harry Potter. They shrank, washed badly and everything had shitty little sequins on.

A colossal waste of money.

OP I would suggest learning some resilience. It would be a great thing to also teach your children too. If you’re their role model then you’re probably creating monsters - so please contribute to society and teach some levelheadedness

Then you're going to be uncomfortable a lot if you pick up and analyse the comments of people who probably mean very little by them.

Live your life, and don't think too much about what other people think; they are thinking of themselves.

When my son was young I used to get lots of people asking where I got my sons clothes from- I dressed him almost exclusively from H&M and Next kids!! Why would you feel uncomfortable OP- it was meant as a nice compliment I'm sure

He was just being nice.
What's offensive about the wedding bit?
Is it an insult to say someone is all dressed up ?

Ah I see, yeah a bit like monsoon, youd only buy a couple of things from there. I quite like this one:

www.boden.co.uk/en-gb/fun-applique-tunic/sty-g3360

But yeah I'd only buy like 1 item from there I think as its quite pricey but hey if you can afford it OP and you like it then go for it.

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Nothing add but I just love this post!

I read this post and my first thought was yes, this definitely happened, and yes, you are definitely worried they look too well dressed and that is rhe reason you iron everything they wear.

The world has gone mad. Elderly man makes what he thinks is pleasant small-talk to lady with children.....that's all there is to it. Don't take offence, don't over analyse, don't tell him not to speak to you again, make some small talk back and move on.

I agree!

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Round here it's a marker of being working class to dress children smartly. Ironed dresses with knee socks, patent shoes and bows in hair etc. Boys in sailor suits with a side parting. Middle class kids wear any old junk crumpled and full of holes. No experience of Boden, but Asda has nice children's clothes.

But that sounds like Rachel Riley clothes, and largely the preserve of upper/middle classes if social media is any indicator. Though not generally sailor suits and patent shoes for the park.

Boden is ubiquitous now and the children's clothing was always more reasonably priced than the adults.

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I mean this in the nicest way possible, if you've got time to be dwelling on this 24 hours after the event, you need more shit going on in your life.
This should have been an "in one ear and out the other" experience.

Thank you for your responses. And yes, I do iron my children’s clothes. I can’t imagine anything worse than having children that look like they’ve been rolled up and crumpled in the linen basket.

I can’t imagine anything worse than having children that look like they’ve been rolled up and crumpled in the linen basket.

You can't imagine anything worse than that?

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