Can someone please explain why a decent school run dress is so important?

[poshsinglemum]

I do love a good dress but most of the time in this country it's too cold to wear one.
When reading the syle and beauty section it always amuses me when poeple say ''look at this school run dress!''.
Do you put it on just to do the school run? Is it to impress the other mums?
I guess my dd isn't at school yet so I've yet to endure this fashion parade.

Refers LittleMissHappy to the thread above

T=You see johnnytwohats, I ahve seen sixtyfootdoll and if she turned up in a vest top and little shorts most of us would simply go

whereas if I did most would go [boak].

I do get the point of the school run sdress I think but can;'t imagine a sit where i;d be wearing non schoolable clothes. Tomorrow am braving the catwalk (ors really like that barring me) in gym clothes for the first timew and expecting looks of LOL

I'm often wearing clothes in summer that I wouldn't want to go out in public in. You must be stylish and collected at all times .

Although did LMAO at the thought of "meaty in a bikini picking up child from school"
im a meaty heffa hehehehe!

It just pisses me off as i know folk who are really bothered about it. Its just adding to stress imho.

as you were

Let them add to their stress, it's probably the only stress they have in their little lives, bless em.

Now thank god you don't have reporters outside your school snapping away at your school run attire like the poor souls sharing a class with Elle Mac and Claudia S, I bet they've got a SRD or two

Jophnny if you mean me quite the reverse (probably sadly)- can't compete with the air hostess / yummy mummy brigade so gave up years ago! Besides am standing behind a buggy mostly and coat over top half so who can see anwyay if my trousers are mucky?

Well, when I saw the original thread in active convos, however long ago that was, I thought you were all taking about the perfect dress to do the parent event on sports day school run type of dress so I declare I am the most confused on here SixtyFootDoll

Oh Preachy thanks for that but if you had ssen me dropping off this morning in cropped gym leggings with white legs poking out and Duvet coat, but hey.
But knowing your school must be very stressful with the 'botox brigade' that hang out in the 'village', come to us on the other side of the river, far more normal!!

Sorry Rosewater, have a rolo

thanks YB

Anyway all these posts and I haven't seen any suggestions of contenders for SRD 2010 or should I post in S&B

I think we're supposed to wait until the 'official thread' is launched by herself in springtime or something

well I might just start a new thread
'School run separates' just to be anarchic.
So there.

PMSL at Botox Brigade

DH has a tendency to yell 'incoming fake tan' when we see certain people PMSL, I always pretend I don't know him.

I dont think its important but for me personally I enjoy making an effort, just for myself. I find the idea of staying in a tracksuit for a whole week makes me feel slobby and slight down so I like to make as much as an effort as before the kids came along.

Peachy I have heard tell that the village GP does a sideline in Botox apparently!

He does, and he is conveniently located on the main school run! Isn't that handy?

Mind you when the PTA meets at the Celtic whaddya expect LOL

I don't even own a tracksuit! Did buy some yoga pants for gym induction today. But uniform is always jeans or linen trousers with top.

at the Celtic. Bloody hell.

Oh come on it's a joke isn't it?