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!

bonsoir anna - are you anna 8888?

School-run dresses (as showcased on here) always seem to require the non-wearing of a properly supportive bra. I simply can't go to school with my tits flapping around my umbilicus.

Navy & black are a good combo - the blue lifts the black somewhat & the black lends the navy a bit of edge.

Anna, I think you sound soooo chic... but it's hard to be in the least bit eccentric individual on the Continent, n'est ce pas?

"hard to be in the least bit..." doh, can't even write English like wot she shud be etc

Could barely drink my glass of cotes du rhone for laughing at you lot on this thread . Have to say, think "Chic French Ladies" only extend as far as the outer reaches of Paris. My FIL lives near Evian and I am always astounded at some of the Waynetta looks rocked by the locals!

Are there

I'm with you there, MrsJS. Go anywhere in France & the myth of the chic frenchwoman crumbles to dust, & a lot of them are that funny short round shape.

oh yes Mrs SB, the Chav is not merely a UK phenomenon. Am also not amoured of the weird red/orange shade of hair dye which also seems to be a favourite amongst our Gallic sisters

altho perhaps that shade is particular to the Haute Savoie region???

can I ask how you ladies travel to school? I cycle to kindergarten and there's no way I'd attempt such short dresses. Mind you this is Germany- land of thevoractical dressers!

Thevoratical?

sorry, I meant the practical dressers. Still getting used to my iPod touch typing (preen)

Theo Voratical is very big in Greek shipping.

I'm truly intrigued by this rather old-fashioned phenomena that is the 'school run dress.' It's cutely 1950s, which makes me giggle pleasantly. I suspect that a woman of this persuasion also does her husband's laundry.

I would like to know, in a purely indulgent way, whether the idea of dressing up to pick children up from school is ...

a. to impress the children (or)
b. to impress the mothers.

My guess is that a. won't notice, and b. will pretend not to notice.

yes, Desiderata, you are probably right with your assumptions on noticing said dress. However, I derive some warped satisfaction from observing thinly disguised bitchery of other mothers pretending not to notice my school run dress(es) . In fact, the bitchery in our school playground is at such a high level that I am really rather enjoying my NY resolution to dress up for no reason other than life . Every day its the same "ooh, going somewhere nice/going to work/etc etc" . "Erm....nope. Just a hot date with the laundry"

But are you sure you are not the instigator of this surfeit of bitchery?

How now! I live in Somerset, where no one gives a fuck

Aaah, Desiderata, are you suggesting that if I were to dress in shapeless fleece and nylon elastic-waist trousers that the bitchery would not exist???? By seeking not to blend with the shapeless lumps who lost their style along with their placenta??

Oh no. Not at all

You havent read the tread Desiderata have you?
read then opine

Desi! It's not about dressing up!

I fondly imagine that the search for the Holy Grail that is "the school-run summer dress" is in fact the entire raison d'etre for the Moldie board

That and a special calender that flags up for users when summer bags are to be unpacked from storage

do not understand politics of school run dress.

do understand need to have garment which renders wearer presentable.

Snice!

Oh yes, Wizard, I read the thread. I was the first person to respond to it.

I find it bizarre that anyone should care about such things.

Shallow???

Absolutely. Get a life, Squeaver.

Crap. Crap. Crap behaviour.