I've found it - the school run dress for autumn winter 09

[Swedes2Turnips0]

the holy grail. Perfect for school run then on to lunch with friend?

I've just ordered mine and I intend to wear it over jeans and converse sometimes or with black Hobbs boots with coloured opaque tights.

I suspect it will look okay over turtle neck thin jewel coloured top as well?

Please don't let it be crap as I love everything about it, especially the price.

Bonsoir - DD started nursery in Sept - she doesn't start school until next year. But DS1 is now 17 and in the upper sixth, so I'm an old gimmer hand at this school run malarkey.

Noddy I think you are younger than me. I'm 45.

But surely you stopped doing your DSs school runs years ago? Ie you are starting all over again

oooo, like the last dress v much. Is is porridge resistant?

wow only £10! i want a pair

ok brown accessorising with the oasis dress it is (apologies for highjacking with an accessories question!)... I was keeping it for summer but I may give it a go - not for school run however, as I go straight to the gym or muddy river bank to walk dog, so my 'preschool run' outfit is normally pretty rank.

Swedes, I wouldn't want to look like Matthew W but at least he is a real designer and not a dodgy pensioned-off groupie who's reinventing herself as a sort of cheapo Kate Moss. Having said that I'm sure it's someone in Peacocks who does all the real work here and I like the dress - can we have a report on reactions in the playground?

Noddy I have that dress - it is lurvely.

and not sexless or frumpy at all.

I like that monsoon dress too.

Can people with that hideous jumper dress please send a photo of themselves dressed in it so we can have a proper judge. With the face blurred out like on crime watch, obviously. And if you are eating a kebab or smoking a fag when the photo is taken, please blur out the Kebab King and Benson & Hedges brand logos as I don't think Mumsnet will take kindly to stealth advertising.

Thankyou pollyanna I saw it and thought it was gorgeous simple but stylish def not frumpy.The monsoon one is good too but the one in the op is a fashiony evening dress otherwise I really am an old codger!!

Swedes i am younger 44 infact so not much!

Noddy - you are clearly much more hip than me. I think that jumper dress is awful possibly because I owned something remarkably similar from Warehouse in 1982. I used to wear it with boots and a beret.

I am still wearing boots and berets!

Noddy - I think that's marvellous, really. But you live in Brighton. Everyone in Brighton is edgy. Harpenden residents would be highly suspicious of a woman in a beret; I fear I would be shot like a postmodern Hartlepool monkey.

I do still have my 1980 beret collection thought.

I am absolutely not edgy!Berets ar classic go on dig one out!

I'm lucky if I am actually dressed on the school run. Buy I am on the slummy mummy side of the playground!

Thank you for the welcome! If I wear stylish boots and lipstick, typical, I am the most dressed one. Think sweats and scruffy hair here. They make it very easy to seem stylish and current though they probably think I'm vain, they may be right

Love the dress! MrsMotMot I also agree with you, I dress up everyday, school run included. Never wanted to have the "mumsy look"...

I saw that dress today it really is wayyyyy too glitzy for day time

Oh for goodness sake. If you are going to a drinks party immediately after the school run, you throw on a jewelled turban, a pair of dangly earrings and some heels, and off you go. If you have time to get entirely changed, then you change into the gold leopardskin catsuit with the peek a book front.

Dress still hasn't arrived.

peek a boo front.

swedes I saw it yesterday it is quite flimsy and the jewelled bit around the middle is very sparkly not subtle at all!

Has it arrived yet?