I know it's only January, but I would like to make a nomination for the first SCHOOL RUN DRESS of the year

[squeaver]

I bought it today in The Gap. It is their Liberty print dress. It has cap sleeves, a round neck and sits just above the knee.

I cannot find a bloody link anywhere to show you.

I'm going to give it a couple of nights out with black opaques and high patents and a little cardi. Then convert it into daywear in the Summer.

Hurrah!

I think it's makeover time but my bank balance disagrees.....I should do something about the coat though. It's so baggy that two years ago on the very day that I went into labour I was still having the 'oh yes I am pregnant, hadn't you noticed?' conversation!

......as in Baraccas?

Anna, I liked the sound of your outfit. Will endeavour to track down somethhing similar when the time comes. I am afraid the vagaries of the passing seasons' fashions pass me by these days. I like what fits suits!

Just stay right here on MN and gather tips as and when .

I admit that my DD goes to a school that is Right Up There in the glamorous mother stakes and it is a lot of fun work .

oh gawd Anna. You're really sitting there in a tatty old dressing gown with a fag in your hand aren't you ?

Anna - is it true that any woman in France who isn't chic gets sent to the Bastille for remedial style lessons?

It wouldn't be a fag. It would be a cigarillo.

I admit that I had more than the school run to my day... including a yummy lunch date with DP in a central Paris restaurant...

Lunch in central Paris? Oh Anna - you should have said - I would have lent you my fleece no problem.

Oh Bonsoir Anna you are SO perfect!

was it very central? or was it just a little bit central?

Maybe it was off center?

Anna where do you buy your summer school run dress ?

Is it a shop?

Notepad at the ready...

Or an ethereal market place?

Une boutique, yes ? Not from Mammout surely

Its probably a darling little boutique which only opens on a tuesday at 11.45am by personal invitation... that or the French version of primark

Anna, not liking the sound of a navy cardi with black coat and boots. I'm worried the chic mamans will be tittering behind their elegantly begloved hands...

I can never find good clothes shops in Paris.