My kids aren't at school yet, but I think I need a school run dress.

[nevergoogledragonbutter]

I wore a dress today and was reminded how much i love wearing dresses.

So if you don't mind, can you link me to some nice dresses for this spring and summer that would make a good 'not-quite-school-run-dress'.

Ta.

Im an oldie but changed my name today, it was hard i have never deviated from my chains before but here i am

Seriouslt though look at Boohoo.com it wasn't a joke thread.

Newbie moi?
I've been posting facetious fashion advice since at least 2006.

Bollocks, that was ment to be seriously.....

Boohoo is useful and cheap. My link was to a dress on ASOS which helpfully lets you list all day dresses by price!

I don't like Next as they show you the online stuff way too much like a catalogue. I don't want to see your poncey spreads and photoshoots I just want to see your dresses (preferably in multiple colours).

Does Next now own Lipsy?

ah sorry puffling, haven't seen you around although can see from your profile that you've been here longer than me.

so seriously, school run dress.

i'm off to bed i expect you to have found me something by the morning.

bump

That didn't work very well, did it?

The ebay dress you linked to is a school-run dress, yes, but it's Boden. I don'treally understand what Boden is but I don't think I like it. I feel that wearing Boden means you would put a hand to your forehead and faint in a dainty vicorian manner if anyone fed so much as a crumb of greggs sausage roll to your kids. I'm just not that delicate.

I am an oldie and I am prepared to play nicely!

Gap have a very cute yellow one in at the moment. It looks like something my gran would have worn with a baggy cardigan over the top but I love it. Unfortunately dd1 drags me away in horror whenever I try to pick it up.

I'm not selling it well but it really is lovely.

Will try and find a pic.

Bah - it's not on the US website and, for reasons I have not yet managed to understand, they STILL don't have a UK website. Grrr.

there are many to choose from here, and the quality is good

But you do realise you can't wear them until your child starts reception, don't you?

noooooooooo, what am i supposed to wear until september?

Fleece and jogging bottoms. And no make up.

By September you'll need a different class of dress entirely! The dresses I've been seeing are all spring/summer dresses, not autumn dresses!

i don't own any boden yet

it's only a matter of time i reckon.

the great plains website looks hopeful.

it's actually true and i've thought of starting a thread on it before, but the mums of school age kids dress so much better than the mums of pre-schoolers.

why?

i'm past the breastfeeding dictating my clothing stage. why can't i dress nice too?

Why do school Mums dress better? One word-competition.

competition. and you think there's none of that going on at toddler groups?

not that i go to anything like that anymore. i work. i want pretty dresses that i can wear for an hour after work and to wear while i mumsnet.

i'll be the well dressed mum who sits in her car then.
yikes, i'm feeling nervous about school now.

You have to wear nice things to MN?

don't you?

I'm not showing you all my srd, took months of searching.

And sadly you were all right about this dress made me look both pg and shorter than I really am - and I really am vv short

it's a double-bluff isn't it bald.

that is the SRD isn't it!

like the holy grail.

Nope that dress, of which I had v high hopes hangs like a sack. Of marshmallows.

Sigh.

Shall I show you my srd?

Yes! Yes! I want to see your school-run dress!
[That sounds like a cheerleader chant ... .]