Do other peoples parents dress the DC's as complete trollops ?

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A bit of a random title but i'd like to know what happens with other people if the grandparents take the DC's shopping.
Basically once a season both mine and his mother separately seem to like to take the girls shopping, how lovely you might think but (no doubt I will sound like an ungrateful cow now but oh well), last week they came back wearing a checked lumberjack shirt each, age 14, 12 and 8 - the girls are 6 (and tiny), 8 and 10 - I pressume this is so they grow into them anyway sparkly high heels, ugg type boots in a size 4 (she's a size 2), leggings, sequined cardigan and random tshirts.
All from M&S where I know you can buy nice outfits that go together, must have cost a fortune and all the tags removed so I can't take it back and that will have been done on purpose.
I would actually be ashamed to let them out of the house in it all, it's shocking.
Does this happen to other people ?
Wouldn't mind but they all need school shoes and I kitted them out for winter in the Boden preview :(

Maybe they got to choose what they wanted insted of what you wanted them to have, and they whispered frantically "Quick, Granny, cut the labels out - she takes things back if she does like them!"

Why are leggings, t shirts, cardigans, ugg boots and lumberjack shirts trollopy?

The shiny heels are surely for dress up and parties - but what's actually wrong with the rest?

Mine are ace

Lumberjack shirts don't like trollopy. Not really a six year old girl thing but not trollopy.

Perhaps they just indulge your dc and let them pick up anything they like the look of? My Dd would choose sparkly heels and wrong size shoes.

My MIL does this too.

I should have mentioned the cropped top age 6-7 in the OP to go under a lumberjack shirt.
It's all so utterly random I think you're right the kids have chosen them.
Such a waste as nothing goes together in a normal outfit.

My mil bought dd a triangular bikini when she was born. When fil said he couldn't wait to see her in it I felt a bit uncomfortable. It went in the bin of course...

Yes - my mother does it all the time (SIL too sometimes).always from M&S & always frilly gypsy look complete with lace trimmings and studs. Youngest DD aged 6 likes nothing more than a mock leather or leopard skin bomber jacket and studded heeled boots (all currently available @ your local M&S) so she is constantly delighted! Her mother - less so!

My PILs are the opposite - they have bought DD the frumpiest, scratchiest hand knitted un-dyed woollen outfits. And, naturally, always ask to see photos of her in them. Think we will have to have a photo session at home. Even DH was .

Gawd, I wouldn't have been impressed by that lot for my dds.

M&S can sometimes (or at least I know back in the old days when they had good customer service) be quite good about things going back for an exchange. Could you try to change some of them? You could shuffle the shirts around between your dds and just swap the 14 for a 6 so you'll have one each in an ok size, so long as your 10 yr old doesn't mind wearing an age 12.

P.S. Like you I hate seeing money go to waste - my mum does it on pointless presents (I know that sounds awful - I adore my mum but she has a thing for sale bargains. Honestly I'd rather she just didn't spend the money on me and kept it for herself sometimes) so I feel your pain. Especially when you need new school shoes and you've just blown loads on Boden clothes!

P.P.S. If you're a Mini Boden fan like me then I can totally see how the clothes you mention in the OP are a complete antithesis to your idea of good taste. There's plenty more time before they move up to Johnnie B!

My MOL does this - she takes DD shopping and buys her something hideous that I wouldn't let her leave the house in! Fortunately she doesn't take the labels off and puts a gift receipt in the bag so I can change it, but since she chooses horrible shops I don't always manage to get anything very nice in exchange.

She did a bit better last time - I think she is beginning to get the hint!

checked shirt, a cardigan, leggings and uggs are the height of cool for girls in the uk right now. Unlike most of the Boden stuff

I'm not surprised that the girls prefer shopping with their GPs. No one wants to go to the school disco or dress down day in mini boden

dont you think that at 8 and 10 they should have some say in what they wear out of school?

Generally, though, you'd expect the Uggs not to be two sizes too big (am prepared to accept that the dictates of cool may specify the shirts being two sizes too big).

Kristina, we obviously live in very different areas. Mini Boden is very cool where I live. How square our children must look.

At 5 and 6 my dds have a completely free range as to what they wear outside school. So long as it's Mini Boden.

I think leggings, a lumberjack shirt and Uggs look horrible. IMVHO. They may look passable on the older one but I wouldn't particularly want to dress an 8 or 6 year old in that.

Hmm, it is what I would chose for DD but I could see her choosing it for herself. Lumberjack shirt, leggings and Uggs aren't that bad. I would let my 8yo DD wear that.

She also has pretty Boden clothes but she has lots of fashionable clothes too. And knee length leather boots.

Where we live, the DC are dressed very fashionably and she would stand out if she looked frumpy.

It isn't what I would chose...

I only wish my PILs would buy anything for DD and DS. They are very comfortably off but have never once offered to buy anything for them unless it is birthday or xmas

That said, my MIL and I have very different taste so I would probably be moaning if she did

I agree that children should have some choice in what they wear. DS is 7 and DD is 6. Primarily they choose from Mini Boden which I do think is considered cool. DD gets many compliments on her dresses