Tiny tennis skirts, tight pants with riding boots..the typical private school mom?

[Anonymous]

What's wrong with blonde hair in a ponytail? (yes I am blonde)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's wrong with blonde hair in a ponytail? (yes I am blonde)

I think this bias against blonde ponytails can be traced directly back to Rizzo's jealousy of Sandy.

[Anonymous]

Can I just say as a 40 y.o. mom, if my legs were still good enough to wear a tennis skirt anywhere, I'd be wearing them every day from March to November.

Then I'd switch to riding pants for the winter (if my ass weren't so big).

More power to the girl who can still wear these clothing items. Seriously.

[Anonymous]

The riding boots and pants has to be a fashion thing. As someone who rides, I would never wear my walked through manure riding boots into a school or even my house, they stay at the stable.

[Anonymous]

And, um, that tennis skirt-wearing mom may actually be wearing a running skirt. Yes, a running skirt. And, just because a woman is wearing a running skirt doesn't mean she actually just ran. For all you know she could be a walker who likes to wear a running skirt. And, so be it. Live and let live.

[Anonymous]

I can't believe this thread is 4 pages long and all about dissing moms who dare to look good. I'd rather see someone who takes care of herself than a mom who has given up.

[Anonymous]

I can't believe this thread is 4 pages long, but what's prompting it is not the perception that the moms in question look good/take care of themselves but that they're flaunting their affluence and leisure.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Lets see...DCUM has had posts about women thinking about cheating on their husbands, husbands flirting with other women, women who spank their babies, infertile women hating women who have children, etc..etc...There is so much ugliness revealed in these posts. I'm not saying blonde tennis skirt wearing or riding pant wearing moms are stupid or arrogant/wealthy or lazy. I'm simply saying it was a picture impression of a lifestyle I have never seen or known and it intrigued me. I wear jeans and tshirts. After drop off I run errands, come home, clean my house, wash dishes, clean my toilet, fold laundry. I have no maid or nanny. My husband mows our lawn himself. We do all our own gardening and landscaping. Our vacations are never overseas. I'm just learning about these moms and that they have a totally different lifestyle than anything I've ever known. I am not jealous. Money isn't the presciption for happiness, I know that. We are content with our life. This was simply an observation and thats it.

What a cynical, judgmental bunch DCUMers are.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, right. Nice try.

[Anonymous]

If parents want a school that offers diversity, they have to expect diversity goes beyond the kids. Expect to meet parents who are different than you - and deal with it.

Yes, there will always be the insecure types who feel they need to flaunt their wealth because they don't have much else to offer. But there are also moms (and dads) who structure their days differently and show up in outfits that are geared towards their days' activities. I own my own business and tend to dress fashionably so when I show up at school and look really nice, it's because I've been working like a dog and don't have time to change.

While 20:56's comment can be true, many of this thread's posters have put their own angle to it and taken it in a negative direction -and that is bashing other women in order to feel good. This thread has gone beyond the socio-economic angle intended.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:when I show up at school and look really nice, it's because I've been working like a dog and don't have time to change.

That's why the tennis skirt and riding pants connote affluence and LEISURE. It's not expensive work clothes that prompt this reaction. It's expensive play clothes and the assumption that that play (and dis-play -- that's where tiny and tight come in) is pretty much all the wearer has going on if those are the only clothes you see them in day in and day out, off the tennis court and nowhere near a stable.

[Anonymous]

This all really smacks of jealousy. Let's TRY to be a good example to our sons and daughters behave. We wonder why kids are mean????? (Exept for yours of course)

[Anonymous]

Re jealousy, I think you're projecting. If I had to spend my life chauffeuring the kids to private school everyday while dressed in tiny tennis skirts or tight pants with riding boots, I'd be an alcoholic in no time flat, LOL!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I really had never seen a woman in a tennis skirt at Safeway before I lived near Belle Haven (Alex). It freaked me out because I was working as a gardener and was really filthy! It's a different world.

I live near you and yes, it is a different world! I too see the hot mommies running around in tennis skirts. They probably catch me staring - just a little jealous and embarrassed since I'm feeling like a frumpy mom.

[Anonymous]

My daughter goes to Holton out in Potomac, MD. Sure, we have women dressed in tennis skirts and riding clothes. I think they look great. More often than not -- we have women showing up in really frumpy clothes. I was really surprised about that. I always show up in my work clothes and I think more of the women out in the suburbs are more offended to see me in work clothes than to see someone in play clothes. These are kept women who disdain the working moms. I noticed it's much different at NCS where there are many high-powered moms in suits and stuff.