What’s the mum “uniform” in your area?

[GrinAndBear]

Is there a mum “uniform” - aka what you’d typically see someone in the playground or at the school gates wearing - in your area, and if so what is it?

I recently moved from Highgate to Finchley Central and it’s pretty different, despite being just two tube stops apart

CE / Highgate mums seemed to all wear Birkenstocks, hiking boots, straight cut jeans, parkas or Patagonia fleeces and fair isle or cashmere jumpers with hair in a messy bun.

Finchley Central mums are all in floral dresses Chelsea boots, blowdries, make up and proper coats and look at my scuffed old Blundstones as though I was living rough in a caravan… Not that I’m going to do anything about it mind, I’m very attached to my boots and fleece, but it’s odd how different it is

Long black puffs coats, Breton tops, wide leg jeans, short Uggs or adidas

Exercise gear = middle-class pyjamas

I couldn't be more judgemental about anyone who looks at or cares what someone wears on the school run, or who plans what to wear. themselves. PLANS clothes! For the school run!! Literally the most bland chore in your day!! The school run!! Where you meet people who are literally nothing to you, not your friends, family or colleagues! (Unless you are friends, in which case they won't care).

Any normal person would be wearing precisely. whatever they were wearing before - comfy stuff if wfh, office clothes if at work, a lovely frock if you'd just been to lunch...

It's like caring what you wear to nip to the corner shop or put the bins out. Someone who looks put together, on purpose, for the school run, and hasn't just come from somewhere else, must truly be the most tragic of persons, with the tiniest little life.

There, I've got that mean spiteful opinion off me chest :)

Yes they wear them here a lot but we often wear a wetsuit under them as we live 5mins from the beach so we're allowed!

So true 😆

Well, I Googled it - and I'm none the wiser! Everything from a dinosaur print 'leisure suit', to leggings and a hoody came up!
How do you know a 'Shein set' when you see one?

And what, you drop the kids off at school and go to the beach for the day alone in November?

Cheap wide trousers and a top the same colour, smells of child slave labour and being shipped 3000 miles. What the Geordie Shore cast wear as smart casual.

I mean, how can you not love a Shein two piece?😂😅

@Disasterclass I didn’t either when I lived there. It was a real mix. Glad that not everywhere has a “uniform” 😂

I’m in the SW now very near the coast and we don’t have a look & nobody wears Dry Robes unless actually on the beach. We’re literally 2 mins away!

People just wear office outfits / work uniform as they’re on their way to work.

Watch MAFS.

Ganni bags were big in Priory Park when I lived there, although anyone you think looks like a hipster in Crouch End these days actually works for JP Morgan. I live in the north now and people dress exactly the same as you describe N8 really, although a bit more barrel leg jeans and Birkenstock Bostons. The main thing I've seen more than one of recently is Aphex Twin t-shirts.

And my actual pyjamas. I don't sleep in clothes at home but own a large assortment of leggings & t-shirts. If I'm sleeping elsewhere, I take some of them for sleeping. It's an added advantage that I can just leave 'em on, and nobody knows I'm still in my pyjamas!

I'm quite surprised by those saying there's no mum uniform where they live - whenever I've looked after other people's kids, I've clocked 'the look' by first school pickup ... and fitted in by the second one, as the other adults don't speak to you if you don't match 😬

Bloody hell, I thought it was a myth, but people do actually take note on what others wear on the school run 😂

@potatocakesinprogress 💯 might! There's a huge sea swimming community here. I often put my wetsuit on at home and under my dry robe if I'm planning a swim. Having said that I'm unlikely to wear my dry robe to do the shopping, my daughter would wee hers though!

Completely missing the point, but I thought Blundstones were Chelsea boots?

And I agree that London is weird.

Couldn’t tell you as I’m too busy with kids in towe marching them to school in a hurry - don’t have time to blink never mind visually note what folk are wearing

Central Essex- Gillette (knee length)
Leggings
Jumper or hoody
Trainers
Blow-dry and lashes optional

My kids aren’t school age yet but the theme in our local school is pjs and dressing gowns. Absolutely baffles me why they can’t just chuck leggings and a hoody on

I don't understand all the London is weird comments. None of what people have said people wear in London is remotely outlandish or 'weird'.

No uniform here. It depends on the individual person's lifestyle. Some are in work clothes, some in gym clothes, some in hippy/boho style, lots of jeans and leggings, trainers, high boots, dms, etc. Varied and colourful.

Your areas sound like Stepford OP.

Either a white Ramge rover and perfect designer office attire, head to toe Joules, or uggs with sportswear. Nothing in between.

I think they mean London is weird to care so much about the microscopic differences between how cool people are in Highgate vs Finchley.

But yeah these clothes are the same clothes any other 35 year old woman with an Instagram account has.

Gosh it must be nice to have nothing to do all day other than the school run.

I think it’s mostly subconscious tbh rather than deliberate.

You see what people are wearing and that becomes “normal” to you. Or you think, that combination looks nice. So when you look in shops or online you gravitate to that stuff and it ends up influencing what you think looks nice.

It’s not going round thinking “everyone has those trainers, I must get the same to fit in”.

of course this won’t apply to people who’ve always had a strong personal style, but that’s not most people I reckon.