To be getting seriously annoyed with my Mother?

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She has offered to take my two eldest dc on holiday for a week ,I am really grateful to her for this and think it is a lovely of her and my Dad.
However they are going with my mums best friend who has a son the same age as my dc hos mum dresses him in all -knock-- off named clothes.
So my Mum is nagging at me constantly to buy them named clothes and last night was ringing me every two minutes to try and get me to pay 24.00 on a Ted baker shirt .The other day I bought some things from Adams and next and when she rang I told her I had bought a few things and the first thing she said was "Is it named" FFS!
On Sunday we went shopping and she kept trying to get me to buy my ds 20.00 t shirts from sports shops which he is not even interested in ATM.
The thing is I have already bought them a lot of clothes but she wants a new outfit every day and one for the evening thats 28 outfits !!!
I can't afford to just keep buying outfit after outfit and think the way the dress is quite normal and I really don't want them to look like clones I want them to look like children.
My Mums keeping up with the Jones's is doing my head in but I feel like a bitch because she is taking them away and I am moaning about it .

YANBU for being annoyed. If she wants your ds to dress in designer labels let her buy them!

Yes but even if she bought them I wouldn't really want them in them ,If she comes near my ds wielding a burburry shirt I would be very scared .

blimey, YANBU. How very shallow of her .

I know especially when she dressed us in such crap when we were kids ,but she has always had this keeping up with the Jones's complex.

YANBU - it is up to you what you buy them.
If she wants to buy other stuff she may dress them in what she likes while they are on holiday but at least you won't have to see it!

YANBU - it is very odd behavior. I would stick to your guns, say that your kids look great in what they are wearing and they are happy. You don't want to bring up children that insist on designer labels and, in the future, end up with massive credit card bills because they only want to parade about in clothes with someone else's name across their chest.

And 28 outfits for 1 week! Ye gods - i bet even J-Lo packs lighter than that

I am terrified my ds may come back with one gold stud in his ear like the other little boy has [shudder].

if she wants them to be in named things, jokngly ay yer if you buy them, dont see the point in named thing as they can get so many outfits for them, soon enough your children will be asking for named stuffso save your money while you can.
teller she wants to buy them ds an have them

She just rang agin about the shirts ,I just said I didn't think ds would like them .

YANBU. It might start them off on labels themselves and end up costing you a fortune when they're older and have learned the art of pester power!

Get them some branded stuff on ebay that will confuse her!

YANBU

Your mum sounds like she is trying to keep up with the 'Jones's' in competition for best dressed Grandson.

Buy your DS what you want. If she want's to buy him over-priced stuff, that will get stained anyway, let her!

is this for real

just say 'no'. if she asks why not, say 'they're my children. they will wear what i want them to wear.' surely it can't be that hard to stand up to her?

totalmisfit you took the words out of my mouth

"oh FGS designer clothes for children are vulgar and naff, mother" should make your position clear