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.

[Swedes2Turnips0]

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.

[Bonsoir]

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

[KnottyLocks]

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

[MaggieMonday]

wow only £10! i want a pair

[MamaFi]

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.

[mrsshackleton]

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?

[Pollyanna]

Noddy I have that dress - it is lurvely.

and not sexless or frumpy at all.

I like that monsoon dress too.

[Swedes2Turnips0]

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.

[BecauseImWorthIt]

[noddyholder]

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!!

[noddyholder]

Swedes i am younger 44 infact so not much!

[Swedes2Turnips0]

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.

[noddyholder]

I am still wearing boots and berets!

[Swedes2Turnips0]

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.

[noddyholder]

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

[PaulineB]

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

[AcrossThePond]

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

[PinkFluffyBits]

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

[noddyholder]

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

[Swedes2Turnips0]

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.

[Swedes2Turnips0]

peek a boo front.

[noddyholder]

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

[traceybath]

Has it arrived yet?