Mums on holiday trips to large cities

[FluffyMummy123]

please avoid
ankle flappers and mum boots
dressing as if you are scaling everest
wearing a ricksack with strap done over your chest

thast all so far

Yes, my MIL would like them too. I bought a waterfall cardigan recently (I know, but I was newly pregnant and wanted to cover my expanding waistline at work) and she absolutely raved about it. It worried me, to be honest.

Where I live, the old Hawkshead shop has been taken over by Jack Wills.

The pavement outside is a strange crush of confused middle-aged women and sulky teenagers with flicky hair.

Ha ha ha ha! FoundWanting.

I have a flat arse. It's always been flat though, it's not a mum thing.

I also have a quilted down coat, but it is belted Zara and gets lots of compliments, so I'm not worried about that.

My shoes are total crap though. No mum shoes, just all worn out and scruffy. No budget for them though. Roll on summer - I have nice sandals....

Diver coat = duvet coat.

My sister wears those mum boots from Marks and Spencers but in her defense the rest of her outfit is always not too mum, rather like the woman in the advert posted I would say. She is very classic and she does roll her eyes at her fashion disaster big sister (Me ) when I pitch up in what she would call a ridiculous jumpsuit or maxi dress. I think she is conscious of trying to look like a mum as we had the kind of mother that wanted everyone to think that she was our big sister, insisted that we call her by her first name in public and used to sneak into our wardrobes, squeeze into our clothes and go out for the night!

Loving this thread as it confirms everything I was thinking yesterday whilst DCs and I were in London.

Was amazed at the number of mums wearing truly ill fitting and vile items of clothing, layered up with fleeces and hiking boots like they were trekking around the Peak District rather than West London. They appear to have got dressed in the dark. In their local branch of Millets.

Also saw lots of wellies - yes it was raining but my Hunters are strictly for dog walking and schlepping around woods and fields with kids. I would feel walking thru central London in a pair!

Mme Lindt - I do think the quilted coat is tricky because it looks so very right in Geneva and Evian but so totally wrong in Bucks! I often see women in those places looking v chic wearing belted versions. I think its also because they don't team them with half mast jeans and dodgy trainers .

Tulpe - you're right - when I see Italian women wearing their quilted coats they always seem to be with some combination of elegant trousers and boots - and immaculate hair and make-up. a look which is perhaps more classic than I would go for, but undeniably chic.

Have got so used to the regular half-term takeover of London that I almost (not quite) don't notice it any more. When I do, I just think (very smugly and patronisingly, no doubt) how lucky I am to live in London. A Covent Garden restaurant I was in early evening yesterday was filled with inappropriate sartorial choices - it's part of a mini-chain owned by a famous name, and, I think, has now attained theme park status, which tends to happen to such places, even if they start well. Still, live and let live, etc.

I don't know why you lot are saying London is warm. I went to the Chelsea flower show last may and it was bloody freezing. There were all these women with pashminas wrapped round them like a wooly scarf. As I come from the frozen north I was well prepared in my fleece and hiking boots but wished I had taken my wooly hat

I was LOL ing at the wise and avid mumsnetters who were there in their maxi dreses, cropped denim jackets and sunhats [ evil cackle]

Kristina - I was at Chelsea last year in a maxi and it was gorgeously warm. Vividly recall sipping champagne in the sunshine with DH and feeling rather smug as his female colleagues had decided weather might be cool and covered up with lots of layers :)

Agree though that it was cold there yesterday. However, if you are trekking round with DCs, in overly warm museums, on/off tube and buses and of course masses of walking then you hardly need to prepare for hill walking.

Rucksacks, overbody bags. Ick.

Herve Chapelier or a Longchamps Pliage if you must carry snackerage (and I do). Tick.

Yay to Longchamp Pliage - perfect for so many purposes.

Dinky got there before me about fannypacks/bumbags. Hateful - I feel like striding up to the wearers and demanding whether they would wear such a foul item in their own home town, and if not, what makes them think they have the right to inflict it on us.

Lindt: for biker boots, rather than buying "fashion" biker boots, go to your nearest Triumph or Harley-Davidson dealership - you'll get the real deal, and it will last forever. The Triumph and H-D websites have all their clothing and accessories on.

I'm reading down this thread and biting my lip as I realise how much people dislike what I wear.

Ah well, it works for me so 'neh!' to you all.

tulpe, i should have gone with you and your Dh on your corporate hospitality day and sipped champagne, coz it was Baltic on the Thursday

now totally confused what to wear this year as i am spending two days (oh the excitement for a country bumpkin)in London, one day shopping and one day Chelsea. now I cant wear my fleece and woolly hat i am totally at a loss

nearer the time I shall start a whole new thread and get cod to sneer at advise me

So have we decided what the mumsnet approved holiday trip to large cities outfit is?

Fleeces replaced by what - a mac / trench coat?

Bum-bags, rucksacks and across body bags replaced by what?

Mum boots and wellies replaced by biker boots?

Ankle swingers replaced by skinny jeans?

And nobody with a flat bum allowed inside zone 2

May I add for consideration WHITE TROUSERS

More than one pair wandering around yesterday. It may be warmer than you might think in large cities. It's Not Fucking Miami.

Lol at zone 2..
Just normal clothes. Not outward bund gear

That Pilage is vile. Like a " shopper" Roy from corrie has