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!

YANBU not to like children wearing tracksuits to school (P.E. excepted of course). The school should enforce the uniform for all children or not have one at all.
My son has autism, part of which is refusing to wear certain clothes he finds more uncomfortable than others would so I know some can't, but on the whole if he can, most other children, or parents for that matter, have no excuse.

At all other times it's fair play. I'm not even the biggest fan of tracky Bs but YABU to waste so much time and energy in hating them when you could just ignore them.

what if they were Boden track pants though ? eh ?
the use of the term 'chav' is sooo boring...

OP - do you wear loungewear? Because that's the same thing isn't it?

Just curious, because there is a woman at dd's school who wears what i could swear is a tracksuit most days but has been known to voice her great happiness with her gap loungewear on many a joyous occasion.
She also professes to "hate" tracksuits.

oh Gap is different

I just googled loungewear and it came up with pjs. Does she wear pjs for work?

She doesn't work Rhub. ( i think you're talking to me anyway, if not as you were! )

Ahhh, i see Kewcumber

Her loungewear is a grey velour type thing by the way consisting of those tracky type bottoms and a zip up hoody thing, although sometimes she is feeling a bit avant garde and wears a lovely burgundy version.

Ah, so her pjs double as her dayclothes to save time on dressing - how clever!

lazyarse

absolutely!

My ds2 wears tracksuit bottoms (plain and of the right colour) for school because they have some cotton content and do not irritate his skin. He cannot wear the teflon monstrosities.

what a load of bollocks....Ghostly you need to get a life and stop thinking you have a god given right to discuss other people's....you're a total sap!

OOh, I bought DD a grey erm thing today from Primark.
I say thing as I thought it was a tracksuit but now I'm wondering if it could be loungewear or pyjamas?
Hmm

How do we feel about couples in
A) matching jumpers?
B) matching anoraks?

I don't like tracksuits per se, unless you are in the gym/running/sports etc because I think they look boring and drab.

BUT, you know what? My ds1 adores them. He has a 'thing' about textures and prefers soft, comy things to wear other than jeans which are 'stiff' and 'crunchy'

kimi
a) don't care
b) don't care

It's amazing how much about other people's lives I don't care about.

I don't like tracksuit bottoms. They sort of cling in all the wrong places!
I try not to judge everyone who wears them though. There are better things to judge than what people wear on their legs.

My kids wouldn't be seen dead in tracksuits. It takes me all my time to get them to wear sports clothes for PE!

I agree, they look awful.

I don't object to tracksuits per se. But not for school unless there was a good reason, so would back you up on that one.

I do object to the 'yoofs' who wear the tracksuit bottoms tucked into their socks which are pulled up to their calves. It just looks obnoxious.

But far more likely to induce uncontrollable rage in me is the jeans worn under the bum. Vast expanse of baggy pants on show.
It's just so slovenly, much like doing the school run in pyjamas loungewear.

School uniform here is tracksuits in winter at all the public schools. The children look awful. I don't see how a 10 or 11 year old girl can be happy having to wear a tracksuit to school. It's almost enough for me to consider a Catholic school...

Some of us care more about whether our kids are comfortable than how their appearance (allegedly) reflects on us. My kids are not dolls.

I live in a tracksuit at the mo' cos I'm losing weight and can't afford to buy winter clothes twice. They are very comfy and since I am practically at the gym everyday, have become a part of my persona. I similarly put DD in her tracksuit on 'chilling days' and days where she's gonna be doing a lot of walking or what not. She always looks really smart in them.

PS - we do not wear them tucked into socks or rockport boots.

omg get a life!! maybe they are financially not well off and trakkies last better or have more use??? maybe they care more about there kids comfort??

For you information i once went to school in a tracksuit, for about three weeks as my mum had just died id been moved from brighton to portsmouth, and my dad and step mum couldnt afford the uniform straight off, not that it has any relevance to those children, but seriously you dont know their situation, who the fuck are you to judge.

omg get a life!! maybe they are financially not well off and trakkies last better or have more use??? maybe they care more about there kids comfort??

For you information i once went to school in a tracksuit, for about three weeks as my mum had just died id been moved from brighton to portsmouth, and my dad and step mum couldnt afford the uniform straight off, not that it has any relevance to those children, but seriously you dont know their situation, who the fuck are you to judge.

please don't say that they wear school shoes with these tracksuit bottoms, am cringing at this possibility.