The horrors of the ski jacket

[Nanga]

What IS it with mums on the school run and their beloved ski jackets??

As soon as the temperature dips below 10c, out they come like clockwork each year, in their lurid fluro colours and multifunctional pockets.

Can someone tell them that they are for the SKI SLOPES, not the suburbs? Those long zip pockets? They're for your SKI PASS! You may as well walk around wearing a sign that says 'I have given up. I've lost all notion of what it is to even have a whiff of style. My children have taken over my life to such an extent that so long as my clothes are functional and warm and waterproof I don't care that I look like Eddie the Eagle's less cool younger sister'

They are so unsexy, they don't even warrant being called an adjective in which the word 'sex' appears.

I am hardly on the vanguard of fashion, and have been wearing the same furry hooded parka for several years now. I may well be channelling the Appletons circa 1997, but dear god, at least I'm channelling someone.

Repeat after me - ski jackets for the ski slopes, rucksacks for hiking and moutain bikes for cycling over moutains. It's not rocket science is it?

Ski jacket wearing mums on the school run unite and defend yourselves!

Did you get out of bed the wrong side this morning!?

Maybe mums on the school run aren't aiming to look sexy and just need something warm and practical.

If you don't like them just don't buy one. Each to their own.

no it is the anoraks with the Red and Blue panels i hate worn with fleece every day and Red high neck t shirt and boot leg but baggy jeans. Why why why? every single day of the school year no change nothing pretty or interesting to look at. Beats me.

Hormones playing up, Nanga ? :o

Agree with Vintage4 - tis the habitual anorak wearers that do my head in.

I will sometimes wear my ski jacket for cold mornings and snowy weather (and for skiing :o ). But I wouldn't wear it every day as I have other options such as gorgeous winter coat and warm jackets. Perhaps these women are skint and bought the most sensible and cheapest option to fit into their lives (they have to do the school run each day, they do not have to be dressed up to the nines to do it).

Ski jackets are expensive so why dhouldn't they wear them when it is cold?

Yes, ski jackets ARE expensive! And if you're rich enough to go skiing in the first place, then surely you can also buy a nice warm and ever so slightly stylish coat for every day wear?

I bought a ski jacket once, went skiing for first time, hated it, sold ski jacket on ebay.. couldn't bear to even have it in the house.

Ha ha, yes, I probably did have a grump this morning.... it just amazes me every year that many of the mums who usually look so lovely, suddenly swamp themselves in bright neon!! Why why why??!

Don't get me wrong, Nanga, I do agree with you :) And yes, they are often the most unflattering garments unless worn as they should be on the piste.

They can be expensive but there is also a lot of cheap ski wear out there too :)

Maybe the people who go skiing can afford to do so becasue they are frugal with their money and don't buy two warm jackets when one will do the job

I happen to have a red duffel coat as well a (dull) red ski jacket - both Christmas presents from dh (in different years) but I often choose to wear the ski jacket 'cos it is warmer.

I was made redundant last year, dh is setting up a wine business, we have no real income coming in - but we were still able to go skiing in February 'cos we have good savings :)

There are stylish snow jackets out there - my snowboarding coat will be coming out at the end of the week when snow is forecast.

I'd rather see ski jackets (provided they are not 1980's stylie, of course!) than an old furry hooded parka

Couldn't agree more bigTillyMint.

You don't wear those bloody horrible fur-hooded parkas? Christ, they were bad enough in 1994 when they were actually in fashion!

This is one of my ski jackets TNF Not only do I wear this when I am skiing but sometimes when I go boarding!

I have even been known to walk to work in it last winter when it was snowing ( I didn't ski then)

I'll be dammed if I only wear it for 4 weeks a year! That is my best ski one a.t.m.

I also sometimes ride my mountain bike to work and my road bike on tracks. I have used my rucksac for picnics and taken it around the Edinburgh Fringe with no fingers pointing and laughing at me.

I have even walked in my running shoes!
I love multi purpose equipment

I am liking that North Face jacket upahill.

Do you know, I also use my mtn bike for pootling around with the kids as well - perhaps I should get one of those sit up and beg bikes instead - far more appropriate

My dh has a lovely snowboarding jacket that he wears in the winter. Mmm...

Upahill, that is lovely.

I don't ever see people on the school run wearing neon ski jackets. North face type, yes. Neon cycling jackets, yes. The only neon ski wear I've ever seen is on older escandi/german types wearing their 1980 all in ones on the slopes.

Monkey - you're clearly not "down with the kids" - neons have been back in for quite a few years.

Why do I wear a ski jacket? Well, I have yet to shift my pregnancy weight so my smart coat won't do up and I can't bring myself to part with REAL cash for a coat in a size I don't want to be wearing.

Lolz. Maybe for the hackney hipsters or 9 year old girls, neon ski jackets are the thing but my lot are all in Belstaff

Neon is in with those who also wear their pants so low that backsides end up soaked