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to wonder what crosses DP's mind somedays when he dresses DD

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Thurlow · 06/11/2013 19:53

I don't care if the colours don't match. I don't care if she has a blue polo shirt under a yellow cardigan. I don't care that her ponytail is two inches nearer one side of the head than the other. I don't care if she is wearing flowery, lacy leggings with a cowboy t-shirt.

But bless her, being dressed in pink cords that are clearly too small and which DP picked up from the charity pile, and which have left her with little indents around her tummy, and a thick bright green wool jumper when she has a temperature... Hmm

Poor mite. Shall I start laying her clothes out - or maybe I should start laying his clothes out for him instead

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lola88 · 06/11/2013 19:54

DP once sent DS to the childminder with his slippers on and she had to take him around all day with them Blush

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RoseRedder · 06/11/2013 19:55

Hope this has a twist like she is 16 or so Grin

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cupcake78 · 06/11/2013 19:56

My dh is rubbish at dressing the children and himself . Ds always ends up in t-shirts and ankle bashers on cold days. Dd is frankly a mystery how he covers her up.

He's a 'drab and throw on in the dark' kind of man.

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cupcake78 · 06/11/2013 19:56

Err that's grab not drab GrinWink

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Thurlow · 06/11/2013 19:58

Grin Lola.

It would be better if she was 16. Somehow I think a 16 year old might actually rock that look quite well.

The irony is we had a conversation this morning before I left for work about how DD was running a temperature and how the advice is to keep them cool in layers.

So she had layers on. Just one of them was wool.

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temporarilyjerry · 06/11/2013 19:58

DP was a SAHD when DSs were small. I would often come home from work to find them wearing each others clothes. There are 4 years between them so for instance, DS1 aged 6 would be wearing the clothes of DS2, aged 2 and vice versa.

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Mim78 · 06/11/2013 19:59

I had to stop keeping too small things that I was waiting to give away/give to charity in dd's bedroom because dh always managed to find them and put them on her, despite array of other clothes available...

DHs have a homing instinct for too small/unsuitable clothes I think.

Have now labelled all the draws in dd's room and made sure there is nothing in the room that doesn't fit her.

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Thurlow · 06/11/2013 19:59

Ha! I want to see a 6yo in a 2yo's t-shirt!

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magicstars · 06/11/2013 20:00

I've come home to find dd in some pretty unusual outfits when DH has dressed her. My favourite was baggy, pink pyjama bottoms, a green vest, a navy blue bolero cardi and multi-coloured Stripey slipper socks. The other day it was just tights and a T-shirt (he'd taken her to play group like that)... Smile

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eagerbeagle · 06/11/2013 20:01

My DH is hopeless. Once put DS in trousers that had been handed down to DD (2.5 years younger).

He's still living down when he rocked up to pick me up from my aunts with DS in just a t-shirt and nappy. Well babies don't need trousers dontyaknow and it wasn't in a heat wave there were Hmm all round.

He also routinely forgets to put DCs shoes on.

No sense at all.

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Barbeasty · 06/11/2013 20:57

DH sent DD to nursery in a top and tights. He thought they were leggings with feet, and had wondered why DD hadn't seemed very impressed.

It's worse now she dresses herself.

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Chopsypie · 06/11/2013 21:03

This is why I put clothes together in outfits in the drawer.

So he knows to get a trousers/t shirt combo out of the top drawer if it's warm, or the second drawer if it's cold.

He is utterly useless.

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Tinklewinkle · 06/11/2013 21:07

DH used to do this. I swear he used to rummage around until he found stuff I kept for painting/ready to go to the charity shop, whilst completely ignoring the neatly hung up clothes in their wardrobes.

When he did dress them in their actual clothes it would be wildly clashing and mismatched

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DorisShutt · 06/11/2013 21:07

DH brought DS to visit me in hospital. DS was wearing too small trousers, a too large vest, and a pyjama jacket.

My dad may have been involved in the outfit choosing too Grin

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cocolepew · 06/11/2013 21:10

"Leggings with feet" Grin

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OneUp · 06/11/2013 21:13

My DP never has the chance to dress DD strangely because I lay out all her outfits for the week in her room with matching socks and shoes.

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Mim78 · 06/11/2013 21:15

My dd stills wants to wear "leggings with feet" on weekends - even though she is 5.

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mrsjay · 06/11/2013 21:16

I was in hospital ill while pregnant he brought dd1 into visit with the teeny tiniest jacket i had ever seen the poor kid had her arms up in the air, I said where did you find that, Oh it was at my mums, his mum had bought it for her friends d 2nd birthday dd1 was 4 Shock

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elliejjtiny · 06/11/2013 21:17

DH does this. He brought DS1, DS2 and DS3 to visit me in hospital. DS1 and DS2 (aged 7 and 5) were wearing each others school uniforms. DS3 had DS2's t-shirt and a pair of dungarees that he'd outgrown. None of them were wearing their own socks, DS1 was wearing my pink ones. I Grin now but at the time I was flapping about what the nurses must have thought.

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mrsjay · 06/11/2013 21:17

I also coped with mis matched colours she was clean and tidy but the wee jacket was the last straw

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Thurlow · 06/11/2013 21:18

I love the fact that it's the sizing that is throwing them!

I can't imagine how many times today DP struggled getting those too small skinny cords down and up to change a nappy...

Clashing I can cope with. Clashing is 'fun'. It's the bloody sizing!

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mrsjay · 06/11/2013 21:19

do they not even realise how tiny it is didnt they struggle to get them on them Hmm

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Chesterado · 06/11/2013 21:20

Yy to total inability to determine pyjamas from day clothes. My mum also struggles with this though too ("I thought they were a nice matching set") covered in sleeping owls/elephants/whatever

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Tinklewinkle · 06/11/2013 21:21

Yes, sizing is a definite problem for my DH.

He gets in a terrible mess when sorting laundry - there's me, DD1 who is 11 and DD2 who is 8.

You'd think it would be easy to tell our clothes apart, but no. Every time he sorts out clean washing I end up with a load of my 8 year old's knickers, DD1 ends up with my jeans, etc, etc.

How hard can it really be?

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Pilgit · 06/11/2013 21:22

Oh God my DH does this - then when I point out that the clothes are way too small or unsuitable for the weather he says something like 'well what are they doing in her drawer then?' (to the too small) to which I rather tetchily point out that it is OBVIOUS when clothes are too small and that I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN PUT THINGS IN THE CHARITY BAG! But for some reason it is MY job! DD1 just rolled with it (and started picking her own clothes very early anyway- which did throw up some amazing combinations but that's another story) but DD2 will absolutely not wear something too tight and will scream and screech for ages.

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