to actually let my daughter go out dressed like THAT

[Umlellala]

My daughter is 2.5.

Getting dressed is currently a challenge

She is currently wearing a green and pink paisley top, blue stripey trousers, a short pink dress, stripey pink socks and blue sparkly shoes. All chosen by herself of course.

She looks weird. But clean and appropriate for the weather.

so AIBU to let her go to her drama class this morning in whatever the hell she likes?

YANBU

'clean and appropriate for the weather' is properly dressed IMO

She sounds absolutely charming, and I can assure you that my seven and five year old continue a similar trend to their non-uniform school

sounds very groovy.yanbu-shes showing her creative side

As long as she is clean and appropriately dressed for the weather, this sounds just fine.

Much, much better to let children choose their own clothes.

She sounds like a wonderful riot of colour that will brighten up the day wherever she goes!

Not at all - she is clean, healthy and happy. She is also freely expressing herself - brilliant!
If anyone comments, simply look them up and down and smile sweetly

Wait until she is a teen and goes out 'dressed like THAT'

You are right to not make an issue of such things. Why impose things to get stressed about when there is no need. If you can't wear what you want at 2.5 then when can you....?

I'd like to see her. Cheer me up no end!

Drama class at 2.5 .

I think YANBU at all

very creative

Yay!

(It's the only class she does at all - I am Drama Teacher so pushy mum slightly biased. They do pretending to climb through the jungle and running away from lions. Though if I ask her, she says she did 'running around' )

it sounds cool, my ds2 would love that

My eldest DD is still dressing up like a rainbow. She is 9 and I think it is a fantastic sign of a bright, happy confident personality. I might change my mind when they become super short, tummy showing , or see trough clothes...

YANBU, my dd is same age and has the same fashion sense as your dd by all accounts, today she is wearing stripy lime green and pink top, stripy orange green tights (Halloween tights), a white tennis skirt, and a pair of pink welly boots!! All very strange, but rather fetching for a 2 year old.

at drama class for a 2 yr old.
She sounds like she has fab taste.

There will be hundreds of children dressed like that today because it is children in Need. My DS has gone to school wearing one trainer and one croc, one red sock and one blue sock, rolled up (as though paddling) jeans to show off odd footwear, pants under and over his jeans, a back to front polo shirt and a red (red hair spray) mohawk. My DD has gone to the school nursery wearing one boot and one lelli kelly, one plain and one striped sock, trousers with one leg rolled up and one down, just an ordinary little miss top (she chickened a bit at that stage), a spotty necker made by me out of a bit of old sheet, hair one side in a high bunch, the other in a low plait and red spots on her hair.

So she will look just ordinary today. But I take it this is just every day wear for your DD.

Yes, everyday thing for dd but good to know when I see lots of strange looking children! Yes, this has made me realise that yes, clothes are just clothes! (maybe I should be more adventurous)

Re drama class - LOOK dd is 2.5 and hasn't been to any other classes/groups at all. She loves her 'running around' class (maybe class is the wrong word, they're not learning Stanislavski), and Fiona, who runs it, is fab and they love her. It's not like they do shows or anything - just play! Anyway, she is my imaginative PFB so she is allowed to have loads of fun pretneding to get in a rocket and go to the moon. And it's my only hour off in the week. So, nurrrrrr.

PS am loving what all your kids wear!

YANBU, i have this situation and i let her choose her clothes to aviod a tamtrum.
mum says i have 'made a rod for my own back' if it avoids a tantrum i dont care.

Ooh, Umlella, get you!
Pmsl.

YANBU

dd2 (2.7) refuses point blank to wear trousers.

DH rang me the other day (I work, he looks after the kids) to tell me that she was sitting on the sofa watching Barbie fairies movie (chosen and put in dvd player by her) applying lipgloss (from cover of dd1's magazine) and reading harpers bazaar (mine).

Oh boy.

tonotn, sounds lie you got a diva on your hands

Ooooh what drama class does she go to. I can't find one for under 5s.

i would honestly not give my children a choice of clothes. and i really don;t understand paretns that do - then moan about the rod they have created.

although i realise yours is in fun...at this stage

It's not a rod, though, if you genuinely don't mind. Which I don't. They can go to school in zebra stripes if they like. Doesn't worry me.