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To think mums shouldn't do drop at nursery in their pyjamas?

458 replies

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 11/09/2008 13:02

I know they may have been up all night with a newborn, depressed, etc etc.

But really, I do wonder when I see a flashy subaru 4x4, child immaculately dressed and the mother has an expensive coat on, over pj's. How long does it take to put a pair of jeans on ffs?

I shit you not, I once saw one of the offenders in pj's and heels.

Or is this some high fashion thing I just don't get?

OP posts:
mumofdjandbabies · 11/09/2008 13:11

I couldnt car less ha ha but thats just me

anything for an easy life

tho I wouldnt do it myself

Spidermama · 11/09/2008 13:12

I wish I had the guts. Good on her.

WilfSell · 11/09/2008 13:12

FGS, who cares?!

You are allowed out of the house without having a shower. In whatever clothes you like.

Who does it affect, except them?

Get over yerselves.

zippitippitoes · 11/09/2008 13:13

well you dont necessarily have to have a shower before putting clothes on

i have got out of bed put clothes on and left the house within two or three minutes of opening my eyes to take ds to school in the past

(in a subaru forester turbo natch or a landrover discovery but the latter is crap)

wasabipeanut · 11/09/2008 13:14

Electra I'm not looking forward to DS starting school if I've got that standard to compete with.

So far I seem to have avoided the yummy brigade but I guess its only a matter of time.....

TheSmallClanger · 11/09/2008 13:16

It's not something I would do, but each to their own. It's not as if they're insisting on everyone doing it.
I'm more intimidated by the mums in full make-up, heels and perfectly-ironed dresses dropping their DCs off, especially as I know a lot of them are SAHMs.
I do drive a Forester Turbo, but it's always filthy and I'm always fully dressed in the morning (on way to work). I will confess to picking DD up in some rather tatty work clothes with cow dribble on, though.

Quattrocento · 11/09/2008 13:17

Thankfully all the schoolrun mums at my DCs school are fully dressed. Washed too - or at least they look clean.

TDWP's example excepted, I wonder if this habit is mostly apocryphal? Really have difficulty imagining it.

MrsMattie · 11/09/2008 13:18

Couldn't care less!

MrsSchadenfreude · 11/09/2008 13:18

I walked the DDs to the school bus this morning. I was wearing PJs, Barbour and Uggs. DD1 was mortified. But they would have just looked like black trousers, no, tucked into Uggs, with Barbour covering top half?

But I did walk and leave the 4x4 in the drive.

katierocket · 11/09/2008 13:19

Quattrocento - why do you care what someone else is wearing?

TotalChaos · 11/09/2008 13:19

YABU. What do you want, a smart casual dresscode for the school run??? Not my style, but it does happen occasionaly in my town (not at DS's school though). For those concerned about hygiene apparently people have separate daytime pyjamas. Which is a bit odd, but hey.

Anna8888 · 11/09/2008 13:20

LOL at OP.

My daughter's school (and my stepsons' school before that) is way too competitive for mother (or fathers) to roll up in PJs. We have other issues about how children are dropped at/fetched from school, but not unwashed undressed parents

MrsSchadenfreude · 11/09/2008 13:20

I had my hair up in a Chav clip, too. I thought it was more stylish than a Mummytail.

Charlee · 11/09/2008 13:21

My good mate sometimes stays at her MILS the night with her 2 kids and then MIL drops her oldest at nursery for her in the morning, and her MIL is always in slippers and pj's with a mac thrown over the top. I find it hilarious!

I have been known on a slobby weekend if im nipping to the local shop (3 mins away) to just pull on jeans and just stick a jumper over my pj top rather than go the whole hog and get dressed........ but hey ho im a lazy cow!

mayorquimby · 11/09/2008 13:21

you should walk around some parts of dublin then.
teenage girls of a certain section have taken to wearing pyjamas throughout the day. it's absolutely bizarre

nailpolish · 11/09/2008 13:21

lol @ headteachers "begging"

why on earth is that necessary?

EachPeachPearMum · 11/09/2008 13:24

I think its pretty vile to wear pjs outside in the grime and mud, and then wear them in your bed tbh!

Quattrocento · 11/09/2008 13:25

It's not about what people wear in the fashion sense at all.

It's about personal hygiene and organisation and being able to sort yourself and the children out in time for school.

Going to school in pjs is not the sort of behaviour I expect - shows a bit of a lack of respect I think. It's also not the sort of behaviour I would want my children to witness or for that matter would them to emulate.

Anyhow I don't have to worry because it is not happening to me. Is it a state school thing? (provocative emoticon)

nailpolish · 11/09/2008 13:25

i think this whole thread is "vile"

nailpolish · 11/09/2008 13:26

quattro what is it like on planet perfect?

QuintessentialShadow · 11/09/2008 13:26

"It's not just one person QS, it's a few of them. "

Holy Ma Hogany! Do you reckon they are headed back home to bed together????

CostaRicanCod · 11/09/2008 13:27

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zippitippitoes · 11/09/2008 13:27

it was fasionable in the sixties i think called lounge wear

not to be confused however with lounge suits

which are not in fact the same as pjs

2beornot2be · 11/09/2008 13:27

Quattrocento how do u know they didnt sleep naked throw on there clean Pj's to just drop the kids off

Janos · 11/09/2008 13:30

Well I've never seen this myself and always drop DS off fully washed and dressed - that's both of us btw !

I can't see why it bothers people so much though, really ?