To not let 10yo wear football kit to pub lunch?

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Not super fancy but nice pub for lunch with family, AIBU to tell him to take his football kit off and put something a bit smarter on?

Or is that just snobbery?

It’s an all black smart ish kit if that makes any difference…

Glad you had a positive response and I agree with you.

Jeans can be smart casual but not smart. It’s only a pub, the poor lad should be allowed to wear his football top. Just because his Dad is wearing a shirt and jeans doesn’t make his outfit superior to a football top. Are the jeans washed out, stone wash, acid wash, ripped, frayed at the bottom, ill fitting or the same ones Prince William wears?

For an adult, I’d say no but he’s a 10 year old lad going to a casual pub lunch!
I couldnt get worked up over a fairly young child feeling comfortable at a pub lunch to be honest.

I agree ☝️

Depending on the pub really and the company:

Posh gastro pub with grandparents: nice clothes

Nearby not posh but reasonably nice with or without friends: they can wear what they like but I'd draw the line at full kit, but a club t under a tracksuit would be fine (we are in Manchester though)

Hungry horse or similar mersery farm chavtastic place- full kit or if under 5 a spiderman/hulk/Elsa costume

Posh and gastro pub are not parts of the same sentence. Pubs, of any type, are not posh.

Circa 1990 we would go on holiday with our parents to a hotel...very nice place. Men had to wear ties for dinner...they even had a basket of ties at the entrance for those who had forgotten. Seems so dated now!

Last year a friend in PR was having a business lunch with a famous F1 driver and invited me along. We arrived at the club restaurant where the meal was arranged to find the driver standing on the pavement.

He was wearing denim and the management declined to make an exception. We walked to a nearby pub instead.

I appreciate establishments that uphold their own standards.

Picking up on your earlier comment about the customers wearing cheap caps, would one of the totally naff caps with Rules embroidered on the front have been acceptable, I wonder?

Children wearing football kit can be quiet and well mannered too. But I extremely doubt that the OP and her family were off to a formal London restaurant, so that’s all a bit irrelevant. You are just stirring stuff up, off topic so you can be unpleasant. As usual.

In a pub?

My DT’s managed to be well behaved in a football kit and in smarter clothes. It’s not their clothing which determines their behaviour.

Will it affect DS behaviour? Just wondering if he will be more excitable. My daughter was a huge sporty spice fan and lived in tracksuits for a decade! It caused a few arguments and looking back I wished I'd let it go.

Isn't that the truth... 😎

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i love how you jumped to conclusion. Insecure really?

In football stadia and pubs on match days?