The opposite of dreading the school fashion parade: dreading the school fleece brigade!

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My little girl has just started nursery and I thought it would be nice to get to know some other mums.

I wear fashionable clothes! And because of this, the only mums who talk to me are those very few others who also wear the same kind of clothes. The majority wear bootcut jeans and fleeces. Now I have nothing against fleeces and jeans, and when the weather is rubbish you will find me in the same things!

Does anyone else have this? Honastly, I wore my rain hat the other day and I swear a few of the mums sneered at me. Should I just have turned up with sopping wet hair?!!

I am totally considereding addapting a fleecy look just to get to know some other mums I have tried smiling and saying hello, but no response.

I would rather be billy no mates than wear bootcut jeans or a fleece

lol at the anti-fleece brigade. Whats so horrific about fleeces? Its just a jacket.

Crucify me now, have had my fleece on all morning as I'm bloody freezing

You wouldn't wear the tabard as a cleaner??

Oh I so agree.

I got very depressed last year at some of our school parents' association meetings. "How has it come to this?" I thought, as I sat round a table laden with biscuits and surrounded with drab overweight middle-aged women with severe ego issues.

Well - I'm one of the drab overweight middle-aged women, BonsoirAnna - and I probably wouldn't dare go talk to the OP, or indeed any of the yummy mummies, for fear that they'd reject me for being such a frump.

Which is daftness on my part - I fully accept that.

One of those women rang me up at 6 pm last night and harassed me by phone for an hour because she wants me to volunteer for the Parents' Association committee (which I do not want to be part of).

It made me quite depressed - DP could see something wasn't right by my face the minute he walked in the door last night.

so you judged them soley and utterly on appearance? Not what was inside their heads?

(and Anna, I thought all french women were chic and slim. You said so yourself. How did you find any drab overweight ones? )

Cripes BA - how come she kept it up for a whole hour?

I am relieved to be 104 years old and therefore old enough not to give a monkeys what anyone thinks of me or my clothes. And also not to need to be friends with anyone at school gate - i have made friends there but it has happened slowly, accidentally and without stress.

Yup - on the "overweight" model thread you said that all women in paris have flat stomachs or something...

Can I just say I was joking before I get lumped in with the loonies?Merci xx

Absolutely not, Riven - I was at a meeting with them^, and we were having ongoing discussions and negotiations.

And no, most of them are not French (there are over 60 nationalities in DD's school).

I'm actually quite nice. Reasonably bright, good sense of humour, friendly and helpful - despite being overweight, frumpy and middle aged.

How amazing that anyone has nothing better to worry about than whether someone wears a fleece or not.

Utter madness

Rain hats do look odd,it must be said, I prefer a mac and or a brolly

frump is a lovely word. It's the sound someone in big petticoats would make when sitting down on the floor suddenly. I wonder if that's where it comes from. Do you make the noise when sitting down suddenly in a big fleece I wonder? I must experiment.

Rain hats leave your two hands free - much easier to push a pushchair or carry your shopping

Orm you have finally lost it.
Go and get a cup of coffee.

Is it this Jewels?

I don't have a fleece but my sister has a (I thought) really nice fitted one. Is that a big no no as well or is it just the big baggy shapeless ones?

I;ve lost my lovely rainhat , i loved that hat.

don't wear fleeces though, can't abide them, but chacun a son gout

don;t care if my rain hat was sneered at either !

I have not lost anything katisha! Unless you mean my fleece. I have lost that

By rain hat I assume we are not talking about those clear plastic ones that concertina up and you tie on with little plastic ribbons?

If you look under your crinoline Orm, you may locate that fleece.

Have vision of OP wearing a yellow sou'wester like Paddington Bear.

The other thread was daft and so is this one. Why does anyone either care or notice what other mothers at the school gate are wearing and consider that they should/should not be friends on the basis of their choiuse of coat.

Good point katisha. I will check...

What the flippin' heck is wrong with bootcut jeans now?????????

I swear this whole school run dressing thing must be in your heads surely? I have certainly not come across it. Some of the mums at DS's school wear jeans and fleeces. Some wear top to toe Boden. Some wear Mango/Zara etc etc. I wear what fits! I never comment on what someone is wearing except to say something like "that's a lovely top" or something similar.

Some of the Hungarian mums tend to dress up quite a bit. There can be some raised eyebrows but it wouldn't make me not speak to them or think any less of them. That is just how they dress for the lives they live. I dress for the life I live.