to think you shouldn't dress your children in Boden to go to a playgroup for deprived families?

[WellAmI]

A lady who goes to a homeStart playgroup I go to always has her kids in Boden, which I don't think is fair on the other mum's who can't afford such things like that. The playgroup is especially for deprived families and families in need in other ways so I think she is a bit off to rub our faces in it that she shops in Boden for all her kids when she knows most of the parents and even the staff can't afford to.

I have thought of pointing this out to her and asking her if she would dress them down occasionally but didn't know if she would take it well.

What would you do?

Unless you shopped there yourself, you wouldnt know it as Boden would you?

Expat a very tasteful alarm will go off as they enter the building. Probably Jerusalem.

I rarely shop in Boden but can spot if from a mile off.

Isnt Boden American?

We have lots of SureStart stuff here and I am not on a low income by any stretch of the imagination. (I'm not loaded either, btw!)
ALso as others have said, my ds is dressed in some quite swanky labels but I only buy from charity shops or ebay.

'Isnt Boden American?'

NO.

only reason i can spot boden stuff is coz i look through the catalogues they send me
and before mn id never heard of it.
not that i think the threads real, like, but im just joining in anyway

Erm...I thought HomeStart was about supporting all families with small children where extra assistance is needed? For example PND sufferers, or where children in the family have SN. Strangely enough, such scenarios do impact all cross sections of society - even the Boden wearing section .

YABVU.

PMSL at Jerusalem siren sounding as Boden wearer crosses threshold of building

Just in case this isn't a wind up ....

'Dress down'? OMG! Why not rub a bit of dirt on their faces too just so as not to offend the people whose kids are dirtier. Spray eau de fag smoke on them so the smokers don't feel bad.

You could also train the kids to do more glottal stops and develop a working class accent.

Also, why not put that Waitrose smoothie into a Fruitshoot bottle to try to blend in. No-one will know.

The you could train your child to fall over and bump into things more often too so as not to intimidate the clumsy families.

Honestly!

I always take my Chloe handbag and Blahniks to Lidls. It gives those poor girls on the till something to aspire to. Poor things, so desperate for them seeing nothing but Matalan all day.

Slack you are right,I used to take my ds to a Surestart tots signing group as he had global delay,he often wore boden clothes (second hand and brand new) OP you are a judgy knob

!. Who cares

1. how do you know they aren't hand me downs. All of ds's clothes (some of which are from very nice shops) are either hand me downs or are bought in sales.

1. why does it matter so much to you

shurley this must be a troll???

if not

do you really think it matters to anyone except you you bloody weirdo
clothes are clothes

yabtu

Who cares what others are wearing? Really? Who even notices? I can't tell the difference between a designer pair of jeans and a pair from tesco and I wouldn't know 'boden' if I fell face first over a pile of it and broke my nose. I can't be alone, surely?

I had never heard of Boden until I started coming on to Mumsnet.

What's so special about Boden?

nothing, saskia, nothing at all.

I had a quick look after reading so many people going on about it - it's nothing special.

this is so not real

Oh FGS!!! trippitytrappitytriiiiip

But, here's the thing. I went to a homestart playgroup, i don't consider myself to be "deprived" and i definately don't think any of the other mothers there were either. It was certainly full of quite middle class women, most of whom had moved to the area from a rather large city and had obviously directed there by their HVs. At first i sort of resented this, and though, hey i thought homestart was meant to be for families who are struggling. But it actually turned into such a brilliant group for us, got lots of support and made friends. One women who i got friendly with, i mentioned my feelings to her - she is VERY middle class and she put me straight. She said, ah, but i have had a homestart worker visit me every week since i had PND. So, its not just poor people who are struggling and need a bit of friendly help.

Hurrah for homestart, thats all i can say.

Can't say any of the children turned up wearing boden though - and this is boden on sea! Would you really send a child to playgroup where they are likely to get covered in paint/gunge whatever wearing boden? its a troll, and it already has four pages of replies!!!

I got dd a few lovely summer dresses from Boden. They were different from anything I had seen in the shops.

I dont think anyone said they were 'special' though, just a bit more expensive than say primark, which I think the OP was implying should be worn to surestart.

An example of boden

Nothing special but lovely IMO (one of the dresses I brought for dd)

my dd has some really nice clothes, some were gifts but most are bought on secondhand ebay or are given to me, gap,next,jojo,vertbaudet, boden she even inherited from her cousin the most gorgeous D+G coat and some nice oilily bits that were as new and ive gotten great stuff from freecycle as well. she never leaves the house looking scruffy, i do that for both of us. it doesnt mean im rolling in cash! quite the opposite. TBH its none of your business, would you like to be judged by the clothes you wear?? should there be a fashion police office at the playgroup checking tags before they let the kids in? YABU

Thanks for the Boden link, but still not interested. Anyone like Katvig and Plastisock? Clothes are just clothes at the end of the day but it's fun if they are imaginative.