Are you bothered what you wear to drop off/pick up from school/nursery?

[Donbean]

So, we are into week 2 of play school.
Today i wore my best "fat pants" otherwise known as "action slacks" to drop ds off and pick him up.
Today i have had a huge cleaning fest with him out of the way for 2.5 hours only, so am wearing my scruffs.
Im not bothered, hair tied back, tatty t.shirt and trainers.
HOWEVER, all the other mums are a bit fancy,tutty on and summer clothes.....is this the rule that no one has told me about? Am i supposed to look like this?
Will i be banished from the circle that is the play school posh totty?

Ive been happily scrubbing every thing in sight, i only have 2.5 hours!

Should i make an effort....because quite frankly i cant be bothered.......just noticed bleach all over the leg of my best fat pant...oh bugger...

AM A TRAMP!

absolutely, you should change if you want to be accepted by people who judge you on clothes rather than personality

I'm a SAHM who spends more time cleaning etc then gawping at herself in the mirroe. I wouldn't dream of changing into something else to drop DD off at nursery, unless it had a funny smell or hideous stain....

i noticed after 10 years of school runs(and dstarted again with ds2 this week), that a lot of woman do seem to "do thermselves up" to do the school run, i wonder where they find the time!!! i always put make up on and look tidy, but just where my normal clothes, combats etc(when not preg!)

always chnage ? put lipstick on to go out
its a slippery slope beany

oh no you lot
make an effort fgs
oir you dd/ ds will walk past oyu

( its me cod)

Why should I get tarted up to stand in the company of a handful of adult strangers and 30+ pre-schoolers for 10 minutes of my day ? Madness, IMO.

love the new name cod

elf exteem
and anyweay my morning make up is well worn off by then

elf!

self!!!

elf exteem??

yes see eevening jacket thread!

yes i like elves a LOT

ok, well heres the thing, im not the slightest bit interested in bieng accepted by any one, especially not strangers i see for 5 mins while at a school door.
I have a shower, check for snot trails on my shoulder and off i go.
I speak to any one regardless of what they are wearing, i will happily chat away to any one who takes the time to chat to me so it makes no odds to me whatso ever.
If they percieve me in some derogatory way because im in my bleachy slacks then bloody shame on them i say!
What do you think?
Should i care, and why?

even extreme elves

oohh will look now

oh dont carre htne
woo hoo huffy pants!

The most important thing is, what do YOU think? How do YOU feel.

extreme elf?? is that the waterski-ing or para gliding variety??

As long as I'm wearing something clean and vaguely presentable then that'll do me - It's usually p*ssing it down here so I end up in my raincoat with hair splattered all down my face!

A typical playground look in Manchester methinks

Lurve the new name cod!

Toadstool target practice?

Absolutely, Donbean ! Frankly I think it says more about your 'elf-exteem' issues that you have to be caked in make up and look like you've stepped out of Vogue just to do the nursery run, thank it does about my own.

most mums at dds school are v glamourous or at least well turned out. I now go directly onto work after dropping dd1 and dd2 at preschool so I do look quite groomed. I feel really shite if I turn up in trackys and no-make up - I did it once and felt so crap I have never done it again.

If no work I wear a pair of cropped cargos, silver birkis and a t-shirt and always tinted moisturiser and lippy, sometimes a necklace. Always tend to have wet hair held back by sunglasses as I draw the line at blow drying at 8am.

'than it does about my own', not thank.

Yes cod, i shall wear my huffy pants on Wed!

I always hide behind my sunglasses - -don't know what I'll do when the dark mornings arrive