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!

PuzzleRocks I was just about to say that ;)

My kids (who don't have a school uniform, yay!) live in cotton sweatpants & Boden baggies - completely practical, comfortable, hard wearing & suitable for active & outdoor play - as do most of the children at their school.

I love their baggies. DD wears them to kick about in, sooo comfy.

Methinks GhostySinCity protests a little too much. I bet you really look like this.

Fio's is comfy enough to go ice-skating in.

HA HA HA HA HA HA Coppertop made me LOL

I must be the only snob to come out Oldham saying this, but I don't like tracksuits either. I wouldn't use the word hate on a forum like this though, that's for my private rantings. But my sister and her clan all live in Liverpool now and they have - wait for it - matching tracksuits!!!! It's so stereotypical it's funny!

I hate don't like men who wear trackkie bottoms that are elasticated at the bottom, with white sporks socks and trainers, it's such a turn-off! I understand mums buying their kids tracksuits because they are cheap and for mucking about it they are probably practical too. But the tracksuit has been turned into a common, comical item of clothing and I wouldn't dress mine in them. My family give ds sports clothes because they presume all boys must wear Nike at some point. But whilst I have a say over what ds wears, he will not be wearing sports clothes.

Because only those people who do sport should be seen in them. If you don't do sport don't wear them. There's nothing worse than seeing a fat man lazing around in a tracksuit. They should be whipped and made to go jogging!

Whats wrong with matching tracksuits eh eh? we all were them in Liverpool, you need to just calm down, calm down

i like tracksuits. but as exercise wear. i like trousers you can zip on and off for running or a light hike. i don't much care for the trackie jacket because it's not well suited for outdoor sport, IME - not easy to vent, doesn't wick well, usually not windproof and limited waterproofness.

quite right Rhubarb - I don;t like non-sports related track suits either.

I stick to "leisure" suits when I'm not jogging.

Actually Kew, I can see you in a shellsuit!

Maybe they wear tracksuits because they're Amish?

Bet you feel really high and mighty for mocking someone's religious beliefs, now, dontcha OP?

ooh yes I have a nice line in shell suits.

(why are they called "shell suits"?)

They are made out of tiny shells all crushed together to give the fabric that sheen.

Is that true Rhubarb? LOL

No it trune, i can verify it

Is smells like the beach

they are called shell suits becaus they have 2 layers - a hard outer shell and a soft inner lining

I personally do not like tracksuits either and I go running and use the gym a lot.

My DH is the same and we cringe when family give us sport clothes for the twins to wear. They only wear them around the house.

Nooo...they're called shell suits because the first ones were made by the Shell Oil company, out of spare polymers.

Don't satnd near a fire in yer shell suit whatever you do............

I had a lovely white one with cerise pick stripes on it....worn with my pink and white PONY trainer boots. Classy I was.

Shell suits, the nastiest things to have surely ever been invented for the clothes industry? I think so!

i have one like this

I don't care what other people choose to wear as long as a) they don't try to choose what I wear and b) they don't expect me to pay for what they choose to wear

In fact, I can't think of anything I care less about than some random person wearing tracksuit bottoms all the time. Oh, hang on, maybe what flowers someone else has in their garden, or the wallpaper the woman next door has put up in her bedroom, or what the man down the road had for breakfast yesterday...that sort of thing.