What's the uniform in your area?

[AliSheedy]

...I noticed it today on my way to the doc's surgery (ill with flu, so shrouded in winter coat and blinking into the sunshine like a mole).

Birkenstocks, leggings and a tunic top. Sort of floaty, brightly coloured, suspiciously Monsoon-looking tunic tops. Maybe a few Per Una monstrosities, even. And yes, bums were generally well covered. Long black leggings. Almost all had white or beige Birkies on.

Practically every 30-40 something woman I passed in the street had this uniform on. At least half a dozen.

I swear it didn't exist last year (?). I think leggings have replaced linen trousers / culottes as summery mum wear.

Skinny jeans/leggings with Fly boots (cold day) or fit flops (sun out).
Tunic tops and sleeveless cardis over Breton tops.
Accessorised with scarf and large sunglasses and, in many cases, a mulberry bag.

Mulberry? Where do you live? Fulham?

What I describe as the 'Fat Face meets White Stuff' look. Much as you describe Ali

Skinny jeans, tunic, scarf, boyfriend Cardie, ballerinas

Full length leggings, short black t-shirt, either fake black Uggs or those backless clog things - playground.

Is chav-central where I live so often larger girls in skin tight jeans with a large muffin top either with a short tight t-shirt so it hangs out or a very long tight t-shirt which covers it but somehow looks worse. Again; fake black Uggs.

Not me though.

There are a handful who do Boden - those bright flowery / patterned macs (I do Boden myself but only plain stuff)

There are those who do Asda - cheap leggings, cheap Ts, fake uggs, long cardigans

The ones who always wear Next.

There are a few who wear head to toe Fat Face / White Stuff

Bootcut jeans with block heeled boots. Moving onto cropped jeans with crocs or flip flops when the sun comes out. Lots of Next and Dorothy Perkins. Crossed with the odd bit of Sports Direct

Tracksuit bottoms, t-shirt, hoody/tracksuit top. Nice.

Saw a couple of women squished into faded bootcut jeans and t-shirts bemoaning the fact that tops at Tesco were £10 , when they "wanted to get something nice, like, but that's too much." That's the fashion level here.

no uniform here - everyone is a real mixture

Boden. Boden White Stuff Boden. There were TWO women queuing in the post office the other day, clutching Boden returns packages! Fat Face if they feel a bit 'edgy', you know.

No wonder my own horizons stretch only as far as 'cute' Boden print dresses. It's brainwashing.

Village where I live= ankle flappers and black boots with fleece. Playgroup for DD 10 mins away= skinnies, real uggs, breton top, sunglasses, personalised numberplate or see-through leggings and short Tshirt when shouldn't wear leggings at all. I try to stay invisible in the middle ground...

I wish I could get away from Boden, but it's the only clothing store with a bit of choice that caters for tall women.

Long Tall Sally is grim, and New Look / Dotty P and Topshop have tiny ranges that consist mainly of cheap tee shirts as far as I can see. Boo hoo.

Don't see it that much where I am, really. A lot of Fat Face, though.

Can't say I have noticed a uniform. But then I am utterly blind to fashion and wouldn't recognise a mulberry bag if it hit me in the face.

Mixed area with social housing standing side by side with £2 million houses - so all sorts, I guess.

The Colonel Gadaffi look here.

Seriously. It's posh, it's designer, it's VERY expensive, and they all look like Gadaffi. Draped in what looks to me, like sacking. No age limit either.

There's one Boden in the playground, and one fifties structured look, who always looks stunning, and I'm a New Look girl I'm afraid.

But I really don't want to spend £500 on rockin' the Gadaffi thang.

Pringle, Joules or Marksiesmummy jeans.

S'bout it.

I only notice the teenage uniform: hoody, jeans (preferably low slung) and fancy trainers.
The mums seem to prefer "flowing" styles.

"no uniform here - everyone is a real mixture"

Same here sharbie

It's very media here - everyone looks like they've just got out of bed and dressed in the dark, except when you look closer all their stuff is very expensive and then expertly deconstructed to look cheap.

I don't think I would know how to recognise expensive clothes.

Betcha You should try Zara - I'm 5'8 with a 35 inside leg and their trousers fit me. All sorts of styles too.

Arabs in burkhas and Russians in next to nothing. Two extremes. Oh, and Westerners in Desigual.

Grey skinny jeans with ballet flats, a breton tee, gigantic scarf and lux handbag. Expensive looking blonde hair in a kind of messy pony-bun thing with gigantic shades. Very white straight teeth.
Also tunics, leggings and ballet pumps/flip flops.

About ten mins down the road is a huge chavvy shopping centre where people congregate in hordes wearing sprayed-on jeans (many of which expose their pants), v bright tshirts with silver or sparkly writing on, hair so tightly scraped back that it is giving them a facelift, multiple gold hoop earrings and multiple gold rings.

Jodhpurs,puffa jackets and muck boots/wellies.Accessorised with hay and straw.

Bun Expensive clothes - it's all in the fabric. Cashmere and camelhair in the winter, and silk and linen in the summer. The kind that I avoid because it costs a fortune to buy, and then a fortune to dryclean.

One: Skinny jeans with ballet flats or boots or True Religion straights over tan wedges. Layers. Simple styled fine material or tshirt material tops - normal or thigh-length, fine-knit cardi, over-size shades and large, lovely bag. Neutral colours: Navy, white, camel, dark or white denim, charcoal, palest dove grey. Linen, silk, cotton. Tan accessories. Day Birger is a favourite label. Love this look and try to pull it off on a Zara budget.

Two: Colourful and patterned White stuff or Fat Face tunics over leggings with boots or Birkenstocks of Fit Flops. Not for me.