There’s nothing as frumpy as indoor scarves

[AliciaQuays]

Once the be all and end all, now awful.

Imo

The mummy uniform at my kids school is sports lux. Pretty much naked in Lycra.

I am a mum and am happy to look like one. Is there an equivalent pejorative term about dads?

Dad dancing?
Dad bod?

I didn't know wearing scarves indoors was ever 'in,' I thought it was just something you do if you are a bit chilly or or boiler breaks.

I used to love S and B, it's an odd place now along with the rest of MN tbh

OP I’m begging you to post a photo of yourself so we can criticise and judge your look...

but there is a certain look you see on the middle aged stresses out ones that look like they’ve given up

I've not so much "given up" as "never started".

I like an indoor scarf, which is often the same as an outdoor scarf. Not least because it draws the eye to the scarf, not to the increasingly faded t-shirts underneath.

FWIW all of DC's primary teachers do wear 'indoor scarves' however it's a bit of a running joke among parents that being young and glamorous is part of the job description for our school. Nothing remotely mumsy about any of them - large majority are a long way off being mums

Happy camper, always had to be careful my “ indoor scarves” didn’t catch fire when I lit the birthday candles in assembly. Often had my “ indoor scarves” used for noses by little ones ( or the hems of my mumsy skirts during story times!).

Depends, is it Hermes ? If so I would say acceptable if it’s not throw whomever wears one to the dogs. Ghastly!

Photo? No idea what an indoor scarf is.

obv wear if you’re still channelling 2010

To many of those who weren't children in 2010, it sounds much like 2019. My 1980s teenage fashion has come and gone a second and third time. I have stopped worrying about looking dated having realised once every few years I am the height of fashion for a bit. Hell, even my frumpy brogues were all the rage again for a while a few years back.

I am wearing an indoor head scarf right now.

Why even do you even need to use the word even when it isn’t even needed?

My office is in the corner of a draughty warehouse, I'd be cold without a scarf in the winter.

@Drabani thank you!

‘Indoor’ scarves were all over the catwalks very recently...

@FilledSoda I have a few of those and I don’t care what anyone says, I’ll still wear them!

The kind of woman who’d be “with it”. Etc.

Wtf kind of person are you describing 😂

“Oh you know, the notoriously cool ones that wear scarves indoors, that common trend”

Mn is fucking mental.

So many ways to wear a scarf.

I love Melina Argyriou’s look with head scarves

www.pinterest.com/pin/458522805803515731/

Plus they keep my hair out of the way of sticky fingers.

I’m no fashion doyenne but I do follow fashion in that I read about (not necessarily wear it myself) & I think a scarf, sometimes, just pulls an outfit together. Like most fashion, it’s how you wear it as an individual - if it’s someone’s signature look then why criticise?

My collection of scarves (indoor, outdoor, whatever) is rivalled only by my collection of cardigans. I work in an office with see-sawing temperatures across the day, so being able to add/subtract layers keeps me comfortable and therefore productive and civil to my colleagues.

Scarves also serve to hide my ageing neck. this may be the real reason I wear them

I'm ICould, and I am a frump.

What a shit, judgy thread.

But I look more like this, if I am honest.

I love my scarves - I have over 100 ! lol ;-)

If you have that opinion, you have no class and just do not have the style to wear it properly
Leggings/fluffy socks/warm sloppy long pullover/a classy stylishly draped and tied scarf ...
Wooly fluffy cashmere or pure silk

So, I can’t wear indoor scarves, leggings or Converse now in case some wannabe Vogue journalist thinks I look like a Mum, that maybe I’m not young or even I might ‘look like a primary school teacher’.

Right. Thanks for those top fashion tips, OP.