What's the "cool mum style" where you live?

[CheerfulYank]

I have a friend who lives in a larger city and it's all about the yummy mummy/WAG (everyone's got a fake tan and an uber expensive handbag) thing and another friend who swears everyone she knows is decked out in the boho look (long dresses, funky jewelry, etc.). Here everyone's wearing NF jackets and expensive jeans and Keens. It's "the thing" to look as if you just got back from a brisk hike (or possibly are on your way to one. :)) Everything must be understated (highlights, jewelry, makeup.)

So, what's it like where you are? Just idle curiousity. :)

Might be the wrong time to ask this. Is there any school in the UK that isn't all about the coat atm?

Coats here ere towards ski-fantasy.

I have coat-envy. Winter-denial is so strongly embedded in me that I can't quite bring myself to buy a duvet-style thing. However chic it claims to be.

I'm with you there, animula. However, have been wearing an actual ski jacket this week , so it may be time to take the plunge and go for the duvet look.

Just googled Keens - my God they're gopping!

I live in Minnesota and there's just no denying winter. It's already below zero here with a couple feet of snow, so it's all about coats, mittens, and boots right now too, and will be until March or so. :)

What are NF jackets and Keens?

School style very individual - rather like any workplace really.

What's gopping mean, hideous? :)

Do you mean trendy, or actually cool?

Just googled NF jackets & Keens and I'm none the wiser

The look here is very Fat Face or Whitestuff or Boden with gilet/body warmers, patterned birkenstocks in summer. No make up or very minimal, no fake tans, simple jewellery. 99% jeans.

ME i AM the cool mum round here

Vintage fur coats, leggings and short cowboy boots.

Uggs all round here

I suppose trendy. I just think it's amusing how one thing is the item to get in one part of the country and completely undesirable in another.

People round here go round in their Jammies.

And sadly, im not joking.

NF = North Face.

Very warm.

Ha! I worked it out as Nicole Fahri - didn't think it quite went with the Keens though .

Mini skirts or skin tight jeans or leggings, ridiculous shoes that you would break your ankle in on this ice, but they still wear them, and either highlighted or jet black hair straightened to within an inch of it's life or pulled back into an essex style pontail with waaay to much gel. Too much orange make up, fake tan and mascara.

I'm glad I'm not an uber mummy.

Tethers - you E. Londoners are leading the country back to fur, you know.

i saw the demo outside the vintage place behind M and S the other day, and felt all studenty again. and then terribly compromised, since I was sitting watching, with a latte in my hand.

Here in fairly middle class London it is Boden, Fly London boots, Converse or Vans in summer, Monsoon, White Stuff, Gap, Karen Millen, Phase 8, North Face parkas, Hunter wellies - absolutely typical, predictable, middle income middle aged Mummy stuff.

I have never seen anyone out during the daytime in pyjamas and a little bit of me still doesn't believe this actually happens.

we don't have 'cool' mums thank the lord

Google first hit is not North Face

Orienteerer I meant like

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Good to know, piratecat! I will defer to you from now on. :)

Well thank you for bringing my attention to Keen, I rather like their shoes

What are keens?

The thought of seeing someone in fur makes my blood boil!

X post, I now see re. keen.