What does mumsy look like?

[appletarts]

What do you think of when you think mumsy? I'm interested in opinions and pics if anyone finds something quintessentially mumsy. It's my fear, looking all mummy.

[ExRatty]

I like mumsy. It's a uniform.

There are different mum tribes

There is the frustrated Pony CLub commissioner type
loves puffa gilet
fitted jackets
little scarf
fitted trousers with either long boots or flats

There is sexy household slut academic exerciser mum
turns up in yoga gear
spinning gear
catsuit
pvc
band t shirt
weird literary or music festival t shirt
pj bottoms that might also be from thailand or tibet
mix of the above

I don't think i'm mumsy mumsy
these days is biker boots or fly boots
next parka
breton
high waisted tragic not your daughter jeans
low waisted and escaping muffin top
"naturally" home dyed hair (if natural hair colour was once hiawatha)
soon linen and birkenstocks with standard next top of the season
juicy tube lips with attached hair

[cocolepew]

Everyone has different styles, so its just your own personal opinion.
I wear jeans and Converse everyday, some people think that is a mumsy uniform obviously they are wrong

[cocolepew]

That wasnt to anyone in particular btw.

[MrsCampbellBlack]

Coco - I wear pistols a lot. And according to many on here they're mum boots and worse than that - bloody expensive mum boots.

[MrsCampbellBlack]

Gwynnie's frock with the sheer side panels wasn't mumsy but it may be a tad much on the school run.

[Bunbaker]

Hear, hear ItsAllTLAsToMe

Most of the sneery remarks here have described me to a T. I can't wear high heels, they hurt my feet. I find skinny jeans uncomfortable and deeply unflattering. Low rise jeans are very uncomfortable as well, and, yes, I own a Regatta jacket because I don't like getting wet.

I am sat here in my Gap stripey top and Tommy Hilfiger bootcuts feeling depressed about my clothes.

[MrsCampbellBlack]

You see I think that Miranda/boden'esque/whitestuff'esque style can look nice. Its not for me but still . . . I guess in some ways I look back at pictures of my granny in her smart summer dresses and god it looked a whole lot easier. You had a few nice frocks and you were sorted.

[MrsCampbellBlack]

Bunbaker - just call it a breton and your jeans skinny bootcuts and there you go - chic rather than mumsy.

[Takver]

"There is sexy household slut academic exerciser mum
turns up in yoga gear
spinning gear
catsuit
pvc
band t shirt
weird literary or music festival t shirt
pj bottoms that might also be from thailand or tibet
mix of the above"

Now I am PMSL picturing pickup time at ExRattyMinor school

[MrsCampbellBlack]

And its far more stylish in my opinion to wear clothes that suit you/flatter you and that you are comfortable in than to struggle in styles that do you no favours.

[MrsCampbellBlack]

I can't do white stuff because I don't do tunics and I can't get past the button necklaces - I think I have an actual phobia of them.

[Wishiwasanheiress]

Itsall this is friendly. Honest. Plainly reading this far we all have our mumsy days, our cant be fecked days, our shite I need help days, but thus far there's a quiet proudness there in the background.

I hope a lurker sees that too, along with picturing the fleecy bad haired high jeans wearer!

[Awks]

Gawd who has the vapours if someone doesn't like their clothes? Blardy hell. Mumsy to me is Bon Marche, maxi dresses, linen loose trousers with drawstring waists and those scarves that have necklacey bits attached.

[Wishiwasanheiress]

I've also had great sex when wearing a white stuff dress so I'm biased on that one.

Was in padstien (padstow) though... Does that still count?

[cocolepew]

See, I think I'm not mumsy because I slap a full face of make up on and have swishy hair. Therefore it doesn't matter what I wear
I admit I'm probably completely deluded.

[hermioneweasley]

I have been described to a T! It doesn't seem to matter what I do - I can make anything look mumsy. It's my superpower.

[MrsCampbellBlack]

Hermione - I have a tendency to look very newsreader if I'm not careful. Bit too much volume in the blowdry and I'm in dangerous territory and don't let me go near a boucle jacket.

[Awks]

I get your newsreadery unfortunate-ness. I'm the air hostess circa 1980.

[cocolepew]

at hermione and MCB.

[JoyceDivision]

I am growing out my short hair. It looks like Boris Johnsons, but brown.

I live in Birkenstocks. When its cold I live in converse.

I like breton tops.

I don't make major effort with my appearance.

Sometime I wear a bodywarmer.

I might look mumsy, but I suspect not, because I look like a bouncer, esp as I live in big shades to ward off thecrows feet round my eyes

Plus, I'd rather not give a tos,s than try to keep up with some clique or adhere to some I'm trying to look cool but look like I'm not trying hard weird double standard thing?