so what are this years school run dresses?

[JeanPoole]

have you lot sorted them yet?

Does anyone know if those Great Plains are below the knee?

Ghost dresses for £65 - bloody bargain! I am a New Look/Primark tramp most of the time , but if I can grab the odd 'usually £165' dress for a third of the price, I will do it. Ain't gonna get it any other way...

Those are really nice@weepotle. Nice fabric. I am still carrying a fair bot of baby weight, though, so need something more 'fitted', or random strangers start asking me when I'm due.

lol!@Goat. I am making a huge effort to steer clear of black, brown, grey or beige at the moment, as I have lived in them all winter. I also want patterns and prints. I am so bored of doing 'classic' (ie. no bloody imagination) so am taking some risks this spring/summer.

a fair bit of baby weight - although I do have a fair bit of 'bot' at the back, too

Quattro, I don't think the school run dress brigade go to "meetings etc"....

No. We just faff around all in day looking pretty and baking and such like , while you non-school-run-dress types wear huge 80s style shoulder pads and bark 'Buy silver! sell gold!' into your mobiles. Obviously.

See, told you.

lol

I could tell you that I had a meeting with the features editor of a major broadsheet newspaper about my writing But that would be a lie.

That was yesterday ...and I wore jeans

were you writing an article about baking cakes for the village fete?

Pointydog, I LOVE that dress!

Yes. I wrote it while sitting in my English country garden, wearing a floaty dress from Ghost, watching my angelic blonde children playing amongst the daffodils and waiting for my home-baked bread to rise...@Goat

If I had a meeting with the features editor of a broadsheet about writing I would wear a "school run dress".

LaTrucha - I love you, was ging to ask about maternity school run dresses, love love love the one you found, and what a bargain

please see ballet flat thread
Major tip.

Ah, but you are probably used to having to decide what to wear to meetings !@georgiemama

Well I put this on today and did the school run in it

with cropped cardi & flats -BUT- I'm in Southern Europe and its nicely warm & sunny.

Yesterday was skinnies & a t-shirt but today felt like wearing a dress, so there .

Some of these are a bit mumsy. Sorry, but even for me. But then I had a look round some clothes shops yesterday and I was , genuinely at how short they were! So I'm stuffed really. Back to the usual standbys probably...

Must be getting old. Need to address my inner mumsyite.

the original rules of teh SRD was that there were to be NO empire lines and no stupid skinny straps.

Ohhh... are they meant to be mumsy?

ah, that rules mine out then

i only look good in empire. do not have a waist.

have got this but zips up so possibly not throw-on.

That's nice@InSearchOfLostKeys. Too chilly for that here in London at the moment, though!

It's funny you say 'mumsy'@Orm. I've been thinking aboiut age and stile a lot recently.

I went shopping with a good friend of mine recently - someone I consider to be very elegant, stylish and who always looks good, never frumpy. After a while of me doing my usual trick of trying things on, hating the way they look and getting stressed out, she said 'You pick stuff that is way too young. It's too 'fashionable'. It's poorly cut. It doesn't fit your womanly figure'. She told me straight . And I realised I do always fall for clothes that look good on the mannequin/21 yr old model in the magazine etc, but look shite on me.

I'm going for 'older' shapes and styles now - and yes, they fit and I look miles better. Getting loads more compliments, too. Which is always nice, when you are a 'school run mum' with no life

style not 'stile'

God, my typing really is atrocious!

no its not suupose to be mumsy, the orginal thread was a kind of loose thrown on surffery coton type not trying to hard thing

Peopel get SO irate about this whoel concept!

lol!@'irate'.

I am bloody seething, I tell you!