To hate the track suit families?

[GhostlySinCity]

Ok, I know the general concencus is going to be that I'm a snob but...

AIBU to get irritated by 'tracksuit' families? By this I mean families who litrally live in tracksuits?

There is a family opposite who have two boys aged 9 and 11. Both of them wear tracksuit bottoms for school (and all other times!) so they basically wear the school jumper, t-shirt etc and scruffy tracksuit bottoms.

Come september when most people buy all new uniform I make a point of wondering if their mum will buy some school trousers for them to go back to school in...

Just before the holidays one year my son was talking to one of them and he said something about his new school trousers...Next day he left the house and it turned out that his mum had bought him NEW TRACKSUIT BOTTOMS to go back to school in!

Another family down the street with boys was out in the driveway one time and their mum said (or screeched!) "oi you two, I've got you some new clothes...but you can't have them now, they're for best!" so the lads ran to the bags and took the stuff out and it was all tracksuit bottoms! And the woman genuinly believed that they were smart and could be born for 'best'

Another lad down the street...just started secondary school...went to school first week all smart in new uniform, 2nd week he left the house in tracky bottoms but with the rest of the uniform still looking nice and smart!

I know it shouldn't, but it annoys me!

That was to Brighton.

haha - plenty of rooms, if you don't mind sharing with excess flesh!

Sweat - I'm running like a river, puzzle

round here it's all ugg boots,jeans,mobile phone attached to ear.

Brighton, no, but i do have a diamond encursted thong that i like to have showing so i wear my tracksuit bottoms very low

What actually attached to the ear? How big are these phones?

Seriously, if I'm getting annoying, tell me to piss off, I'm in one of those cheeky moods..

dds old school used to make pre-prep to year one to wear these horrid flared tracksuit bottoms and I hated it. She always looked so smart in her little blazer and tie etc then you got to these nasty flared tracksuit bottoms

Yes, that skinny jeans tucked into ugg boots and a slouchy top but otherwise so well-groomed is another noticeable uniform.

I think jeans usually look nice

I have been known to wear sports clothes around the house (but I do do a lot of sport! which is the point of these clothes!) but I would never go out in them, I'd be embarrassed enough having to answer the door in them.

i might be tempted to wear a pair that had "wide load" over the arse.

to old for "babe" or "sexy"

Flared?
I would love to find a school for DD that wore bell-bottoms and kipper ties. That would be something.

it is the chosen attire for a certain kind of people

jeans looka lot smarter that tracksuit bottoms.

Yep, flashers. Easy to pull down.

Yes please dont go out of the house in your sports clothes people, unless its for the gym it is utterly varl

Yeh - tell me more about this school!
I'm going to fight to get DD in there. Haircut would have to be hairsprayed flick for girls, mullet for boys and definitely platform shoes....

people who urinate in public for same reason

horrid common poeple

I actually find denim can be offensive on the wrong person. Look at Clarkson..

I don't mind thin people in tracksuits. It looks odd when you see some 14 stone person with a muffin roll that can be seen from outer space in a tracksuit though. BECAUSE tracksuits are for PE!!!!!! I still say PE and not sport even twenty years after school.

Ghostly you have a bee in your bonnet, this is the second thread you've started about this today!

PuzzleRocks yep flared, not sure if they were supposed to be but on all the dc in the class the top part was tight fitting like skinny jeans and the bottom part of the legs baggy and wide. It was only for pre-prep to year one as they hadnt mastered toileting, dd would have found it easier in a skirt tbh.

I know a family who live in tracksuits too.

She recentlly left her violent husband and is bringing up 3 dc on virtually no money. It's all she can afford. Tracksuits last for ages, easy to wash, no ironing etc

I don't hate her at all.

Lunchboxes are full of corned beef sandwiches, boiled eggs and arctic roll.

You calling me common custy? I quite like to pee outdoors.

Golly, it is all so confusing. One really must remind oneself to ask a pedant to explain to one which term one should be using when denigrating those on the social spectrum whom one deems to be beneath one? Chav?
Hoodie? Great unwashed? or the fabulous new 'Track-suit family'?

One would ask one's butler, but of course One thinks he might be one of them