oh the joys of sn and fashion rules you have to break

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dd has a new pair of sandals
but her feet would get cold. so I have put her in socks.
oh dear a fashion rule broken.
own up what rules do you have to break as your dc refuses to abide by the rules
(light hearted thread)

Talking of footwear - I think it is me that breaks the fashion rules in our house. I need to be able to run - to catch ds who has no sense of danger and can move faster than Mercury. In winter its trainers (acceptable), in summer I have this really awful pair of 'comfort' maryjanes-- ( and yes they are awful to look at!).
Ds has gone through the knee of his favorite trousers and they are too short - but he insists on wearing them.

I'm the same as magso. Can only wear shoes I can run in.

i tend to do that even though dd1 is getting better - I have shoes to run in. Dd1 wears bright blue trainers to school as they are the only ones that fit her orthotics in and are light enough for her to wear without getting exhausted.

she is also the only one in her class with a bright pink ribbon around her school hat - that way they can spot her in the playground and know where she is at a glance - rather than searching through a see of navy hats.

Ds2 has started wearing ankle boots with an insole to help correct his posture, but now the summer has come and he is in shorts, he looks permanently as if he is about to go hiking.

Having searched everywhere for black soft shorts with an elasticated waistband for school, I gave up and cut the bottoms off Ds2's old school jogging bottoms. However my sewing's not the best so they don't bear close examination. However as Dh pointed out, if they have to take Ds2's shorts off at school, he doubts it'll be the seams that they are worrying about .

I also need to be able to run, squeeze into small places, climb up on playgrounds to perform rescues etc and people ask me why I'm always in trousers!

saker I tend to wear 3/4 capris in summer and jeans in winter. very rarely do you see me in a skirt or dress for that reason too.

DS3's latest "thing" is that he has to have socks on at all times. I thought it was really good at first when he was bringing me his socks in the morning and was getting him to PECs for them. But now it has become a complete obsession and he screams when I try and take them off at bedtime and scrunches up his toes and if I do succeed in getting them off, he goes and gets another pair (without PECSing for them ).

He also has an appalling haircut because he won't sit still. One of the more hippy of the dads at school said he liked DS3's hair - I nearly swooned at his feet there and then!

oh skirts and dresses are a no no. last time I wore one I realised I was flashing my bum to everyone as I did the straps in the van

Ds has a thing about socks too and wears them to bed! I am usually able to exchange them for clean the next day! If he gets one wet he'll find a dry one so often has different coloured sockes on.

Eidsvold, I like the pink ribbon in hat idea but we don't need that in our family as my boys have committed the fashion crime of being born with red hair! It does make them easy to spot in a crowd tho'. DS2 has started chewing his collars ATM, so all his summer wardrobe is hand me downs or ebay purchases, it is less stressful than him ruining new stuff, am considering getting (or making) some of those bandana/bib combo's to hide the dribble patch. DS2 used to look like a highland cow due to his hatred of hair cuts/ brushing but he is more tolerant these days and therefore tidier.

I am by nature a scruff but i get round it by always pretending I have just come from digging my allotment if I turn up at school looking particularly untidy.

DD3 likes to explore the contents of her nappy In winter she's has trousers or tights on (with her vest tucked in!) so we get round it.
But in summer I think she looks so cute in her school uniform summer dress with white ankle socks. To make the nappy inaccessible to her, she has underneath big black cycling shorts! It always makes me laugh when she's on a climbing frame, to see her big black bum under her checked dress. It does the trick though.

my boy is surprisingly cool and funky but does have a quirk I love.
As soon as he is relaxed at home for the day ( after school or after all scheduled activities at the weekend) he then gets straight into his jammies and slippers. He wears those until bedtime when he takes them off to sleep naked . Always makes me smile to see him take his jammies off to go to bed.
I think he wants the 'slip into something more comfortable' outfit for the evening. Does anyone know where I can pick up a smoking jacket a la Noel Coward ?

DS1 has decided he likes hats these days. He doesn't care if it fits. He thinks nothing of walking around the local big shopping centre wearing denim cap that we bought him 4 years ago, when he was still a baby. It barely fits him, but he doesn't care. At home, he wears a procession of assorted hats, footwear and the odd sweatshirt with no concern for seasonality or matching. I picked him up from nursery a few weeks ago and found him sat at the computer wearing a top hat. The day before, his teachers had found him wearing an alice band he'd "borrowed" from one of the girls.

The ultimate has to be discovering that he'd slept in his Crocs, mind!

forever long socks to go with splints

we can't do sandals at all

or slippers

fio dd was doing that at her birthday party. she was wearing a denim dress that did up with poppers up the front. silly mum called it a stripper dress...............

rolf at sleeping in crocs . they really must be comforatble!

Talking of front zips ds does't like them done up on trousers (perhaps he likes the draft)!! So its either pullup style trews (hard to get now he is so tall)or risk of flashing! If I have failed to remove a label he is likely to take a radical approach with scissors so he flashes at the back sometimes as well. He has a similar approach to adjustable elastic!

My son, ASD, 9, insists on wearing socks with his summer sandals.

DS1 has only 2 major terensds he will agree to wear....

dodgy too big jogging trousers with matching nasty sweaters (inevitably with broken hems and in mustard yellow, always preferred on hot days )

and my personal favourite, plasticky nylon day glo shell suit jackets with matching coloured t-shirt and shorts... you would see him coming!

Has a thing for Umbro sporstwear, too, in that that's all he wants to buy/wear.

I dislike it tremendously, especially when he wants to wear it head to toe when we're going out anywhere.

Oh and both the asd ds's like to have one sock on, one off. Dont know why.

All through the winter ds2 is the only child in short sleeves.

All through the summer ds1 is the only child in a big coat with the hood up.

Ds1 is currently wandering around the house with one shoe on and one shoe off.

Ds2 is wearing only a pair of pants.

Ds2 has a thing about sleeping in black socks that go above his knees.

Fashion? What's that?