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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lazy and full of excuses. Appropriate attire is pants, jeans, skirts with sweaters, tshirts, regular tops or easy to wear dresses. When I was nursing and covered in baby vomit all day I still managed to put on a pair of regular pants, tank top and cardigan. I can't imagine giving up on life like that and I'm not a very formal person. The point is that you are wearing clothes that are meant to be worn at home or in the gym but you are out in public. I don't want to teach my children to live their lives in sweatpants. I don't want to teach them to be vain, but they need to have some self respect.[/quote]

What are "regular" pants? Or "regular" clothes? I have exercise pants, sweat pants, jeans, cords and washable dress pants. I don't do dry clean clothes except for really special things - don't need another errand and too expensive. Jeans are not comfortable for the active lifestyle of a parent of young kids, so they are out these days. Even when I want to change clothes when coming home from work, my 2 year olds won't let me out of the room long enough. So, I often wear the cords to work - luckily, I'm a tech person and can get away with it, so I can stay in them through the evening with kids. But I wear the exercise pants and sweats much of the time outside of the office - because the kids would ruin anything remotely nice, and I don't have a lot of money to invest in new clothes or dry cleaning, and I don't have the time to deal with laundry for anything that takes more than the minimum amount of time. For instance, I went to dryer-friendly fleece instead of lay-flat-to-dry sweaters. And while I am not into fashion, I think the (not fancy) exercise pants look better than the sweats I have and they are often the right mix of warmth but not too heavy.

It's not a matter of being lazy. I work from morning to night and have no time for myself; there isn't time for matching clothes, ironing, more laundry, makeup, etc. Excuses? maybe you're a better person than I am, but I'm doing my best, so please give us a break.

But what I want to know is, why do people seem to assume that "workout" clothes are somehow of a lower class or status than jeans? Jeans are casual, workout clothes are casual...does there have to be a standard that one is better than the other? Several years ago those stretch legging pants with long shirts were considered good enough for at least casual business attire. Why were those better than workout clothes or jeans? It think this whole fashion thing gets a little over the top!

And why is someone who prioritizes looking their best considered stuck up? Are they any more stuck up than someone who prides themselves on prioritizing spending the maximum time with their kids and doing a gazillion activities with them? Can't each person choose their priorities in life? There are advantages and disadvantages to each choice. Can't each person choose their own style? Do you have to judge people harshly? If their style isn't for you, that's fine, but as long as they are decently covered and relatively clean, why judge them badly?
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To each his own.  Not all SAHMs are frumpy and those who are "frumpy" are doing the best they can and are likely focusing on their children rather than their appearance.[/quote]

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