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Explain 'school run' clothing please

35 replies

pointydog · 04/09/2008 21:25

The whole 'school run' thang is mentiond so often on mn but I still don't get it.

It implies that the social biggie of the day is dropping off your kids in front of a lot of other mums and, also, that these other mums are going to be taking note of your outfit.

But that can't be the case. Can it?

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onepieceoflollipop · 04/09/2008 21:27

I thought it was just the school run sundress and we didn't have to worry until next Summer!? Seems I was wrong.

beansmum · 04/09/2008 21:28

I hope not. I drop ds at nursery in my running gear. Very attractive.

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pointydog · 04/09/2008 21:37

no no, you seem to get a school run everything. But even if you were right, pop, why would there be a school run sun dress? Would you then change out of it if you were going home to do some housework or cooking? Would you only wear ot to show the mums and then saunter around the park and the shops buying cheese from a cheesemongers?

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WilfSell · 04/09/2008 21:45

I don't need a school run sundress .

For me it's more about walking to school in the pissing rain and then going straight to work. Hence I need adaptable clothes/shoes that aren't too casual but are easy to walk in and keep me warm and dry. After school go straight to nursery often with a pushchair so can't carry an umbrella, walk in high shoes etc...

No idea how everyone else is interpreting it.

FluffyMummy123 · 04/09/2008 21:47

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WideWebWitch · 04/09/2008 21:48

I don't get it either.
If you're just doing the school run who cares what you wear?

I think it's ironic.
I hope so

FluffyMummy123 · 04/09/2008 21:49

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SorenLorensen · 04/09/2008 21:50

Fling on as in "OMG I'm stark bollock naked and it is time to pick the kids up from school" type way?

I have a special "going to the cheesemongers" outfit, btw.

FluffyMummy123 · 04/09/2008 21:51

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SorenLorensen · 04/09/2008 21:51

Do you like it?

WideWebWitch · 04/09/2008 21:52

Ahh, I seeeee.

WideWebWitch · 04/09/2008 21:52

Nah, Soren that's your 'pretending to be in Blakes Seven' outfit, surely?

onepieceoflollipop · 04/09/2008 22:02

For once I understood (I think) - it was a sundress thingy and not a dress code for all year round. - Cod has confirmed my suspicions

Anyway all you need at the mo is a cagoule and flip flops/boots tbh.

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pointydog · 05/09/2008 16:54

keh, think I get it. 'School run' has nothing to do with it. It just means 'every day', It's an in mn term which has passed me by.

This would be me going to the cheesemongers.

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onepieceoflollipop · 06/09/2008 19:31

Pointydog you need to tone your blusher down a bit imo.

Waswondering · 06/09/2008 19:35

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pointydog · 07/09/2008 09:47

I have a bad reaction to cheese, lolli

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Anna8888 · 07/09/2008 09:55

"School run clothing" is a dreadful concept. The implication is that the woman who needs it in fact wears a housecoat or overall all day and never leaves the house to be seen in public except to drop and fetch her children, when she must Dress Up.

ghosty · 07/09/2008 09:59

I get dressed for the day ... I don't have an outfit for the school run ... I don't get it [thick]

TabbedBrowser · 07/09/2008 12:12

you havent READ THE DEIFINITION>

TabbedBrowser · 07/09/2008 12:12

"no no no
it was for a casual sun dress initially

ie that you ocudl fling on wihtout lookign overdressed or in beach wear"

Bronze · 07/09/2008 12:22

I'm so lost.

I am one of the few mums at dss school who does actually do the school run. 90% drive. I walk or as is more normally the case run cos I'm useless and disorganised.
Should I be wearing a sun dress then?

georgiemum · 07/09/2008 12:24

Stuff it. It is wet so I shall be wearing my raincoat, rain hat and wellies. And maybe nothing undreneath - saucy

wessexgirl · 07/09/2008 12:29

There is no such thing as 'school run clothes'.

It is a handy phrase for clothes that are casual, i.e. you would do the school run in them, but not wear them on a date/to the office.

FluffyMummy123 · 07/09/2008 13:03

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