why do mums of toddlers dress like they are going into battle?

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i know I think i did.
ALl bagged up, flat boots, look of grim determination. In my day it was all combat trousers, quilty gilets and timberlands.
now its ugly Fly boots and ill fitting skinnies

I hate sensible trainer mum shoes. Not quite a running shoe, definitely not anything cool.

Here yuck
Worn with the obligatory crud

PMSL at the clutch bag and nice jacket as park wear!! Funnily enough you can take a reasonable sized hang bag or non vomit inducing stylish changing bag to the park instead of something that you have to purchase in the extreme mountaineering section of Blacks.

I'd love one of you S&B lot to come and sort me out. I haven't a clue about any of this. Oh, and if you could bring along the funds necesary for a complete wardrobe overhaul that'd be great, ta.

Shrieking at SwitchTVoff's stern post. I read it in the tone of those wartime announcements they used to play before the movies. Mothers! When you take a clutch bag to the park you are HELPING HITLER!

Fish, you French makeup lady's accent gets more French every time you post about her. She's like something out of Allo Allo now. Soon she'll be emphasising her point by flinging croissants at you.

Ha ha! @ SwitchTVOff

Someone on the pregnancy board once had a right go at me when I said I was considering taking a bit of blusher and mascara in my hospital bag - you know, for photos after. People are weird about make-up

Really? I have yet to meet anyone who dresses as you decribe. As a mum of a toddler as well as 2 big ones I manage to do my hair, wear make up and find that good skinnies, ash boots and my lovely Whistles tops stand up very nicely to all that a toddler throws at them.

Well I'm not staying in the park for longer an hour - I might get grass stains or worse on my white skinnies.

I do have a big bag though - its camel and Anya Hindmarch and sometimes contains a biscuit and a spare pair of knickers

Oh ha ha at wanky post from switchtvoff

Today I managed to go to the park with my DCs in my high heeled Acne boots and clamber up slides and over climbing frames after my DS. In my Mulberry handbag I had a snack and drink for the toddler. We left when my DS asked to, which was about 2 hours later. I managed all this while wearing a nice jacket.

Well, whaddya know? Wearing shit clothes doesn't make you a better parent than me! Apparently it does make you sanctimonious and judgemental, though maybe your attitude has more to answer for than your sartorial choices.

I abhor Fly boots. Fugly as hell.

I have worn Uggs for the past 3 weeks, though, so what do I know?

You're meant to take children to the park

at Beehiving

I too have managed to attend the park (and the soft play place and the farm and anywhere else we go) with nice clothes and make up and never once have I had to drag my DSs away because I am cold or my feet hurt.

My handbag's a disgrace though.

You take grazia with you MissBeehiving of course

Yeah, sod the park. Full of other people's children

really laughing at martyr mum.

I can't really remember what I dressed in as it was so long ago, but I did have some shocking mum boots with a sensible heel from the Littlewodds catalogue, and a berghaus jacket.

But how the hell do people get on with things with 3 under 5? So you have a baby, a 2 year old and a 4 year old? 2 kids in nappies at the same time? A screaming baby, a toddler running riot and a 4 year old to teach to read.

Sod that. If I had had 3 kids I would never have gone out.

My toddler got stuck at the top of an indoor soft play climbing centre and I had to send someone else up because my skirt was too tight

Love that cybbo!

You just go very grey getorf and spend your few peaceful hours of an evening obsessing about clothes on here

My lowest point was catching sight of myself in a shop window wearing a red Berghaus cagoule, thinking " what the hell happened to me"

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I have had a cyb moment.
When my ds fell of a slide at a toddler group and bit his tongue, blood everywhere, my first thought was "i am wearing a white t shirt". My friend had to go and pick him up.

It depends where I'm going. I do lots of walking so I dress comfortably, but if I'm going to the pub then I will usually wear a skirt.

My skinny jeans don't fit well, but I don't really have the budget to re-kit my wardrobe at the mo. I always make sure I'm wearing a long top though because I know nobody wants to see my behind.

Loving this thred. My DH knows to worry about me the day I don't wear mascara!!! Even in the early days after childbirth I always managed to apply a coat. Otherwise I. Have. No. Eyes. Obviously my DCs were left to play with the knife drawer whilst I applied. For the record I hate the park. Absolutely hate it. When I think of the hours and hours I have spent pushing a child on the swing when I could have been snuggled up on the sofa eating a peppermint aero.....

NYE that was obviously a joke, I obviously don't let my children within a 3 foot radius of me lest they befoul my lovely things with their various effluvia...

I have the hardest style job of all- toddler and breast feeding 3 month old. All tops need to stretch but not expose belly. I am skinny jeans, biker boots/cowboy boots and leathe jacket.makeup on, hair done if I'm going further than the close.

But I'll be back in work in 5 months then I get to dress up every day, so I don't care how scruffy I look.

Three kids us busy. But fun. And even better now.

I'll second that astronaut I also have toddler and BFing 3mo and I think I have a choice of about 3 ugly tops atm

Oh fuck offs to all of you because I do take a fucking clutch bag to the park

Mainly because it can be slung in the bottom of the push chair, in an offensive rucksack, in a naice bag, grabbed just popping down the shop and on tree climbing occasions shoved in the gap of my badly fitting jeans.