By adamg on Mon., 7/11/2016 - 8:13 am
The Globe's Dover correspondent gets down with some real talk for suburban moms: Stop making the rest of us suffer by forcing us to see you in your boring black leggings and stuff. At least put on a silk top before you go out, for Christ's sake.
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By Yosemite Sam
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 8:17am
A little disappointing, no pictures of these ladies in leggings/yoga pants to see if they're inappropriate. I would prefer to form my own opinion.
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Mon, 07/11/2016 - 12:33pm
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That's a style
By Patricia Roberts
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 5:45pm
Having your hair bleached white with the roots coming in dark is a style now. You need to look around more.
For Her, It May Be "A Style" — But it Isn't Very Becoming
By Elmer
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 8:46pm
Whatever
By APB
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 3:51pm
Imagine if we Americans were like the Parisians, and put on chic scarves, cologne, and lovely shoes just to do stuff like take out the trash.
They do it because they value looking good and because they believe that, if someone fails to look their best at all times, it collectively lets down the whole city. I suspect that one has to be Parisian to fully comprehend this aspect of the culture.
We are not Parisians. Phew!
We are free to have days where we get to the end of them and realize we never combed our hair. C'est la vie.
I prefer yoga pants to mom jeans.
By anon
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 8:29am
the author looks like one of those people who claimed to have never had a bad day.
Nobodies trying to see
By anon
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 11:26am
A size 6 in skinny jeans.
Suburban Moms
By Maureen McCarthy
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 8:32am
The "dressing" problem is also rampant in the city. It's sad women don't get dressed up anymore, even sadder they don't even bother to get dressed. I rue the day when jeans and leggings became the standard uniform. Even more pathetic is the size of the women who wear this attire. Jeans, leggings and yoga pant don't make one look thinner. No matter what you have on, if it's form fitting, it's form fitting! If you would rather die than be seen in a skirt or dress, try a fine pair of loose linen slacks in summer or nicely tailored wool slacks in your real size in winter. You'll be surprised at how great you look.
Slacks.
By anon
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 10:46am
That's a geriatric dog whistle. :)
Some comments
By anon
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 11:08am
1. not about looking thinner or "looking great"
2. dress up in a nice linen suit and then wrestle a toddler into the center row of an SUV and then actually play at a park with the kid.
3. Vomit everywhere. Junior will spit up, will get noro and dry cleaning bills suck. Washers are much more handy than lugging vomited on linen suits to the dry cleaner.
4. I suppose your servants are supposed to handle all this.
Dear Maureen,
By anon
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 11:17am
Dear Maureen,
Women should give ZERO FUCKS about what you, or anyone else, thinks they should wear.
Sincerely,
A Women That Doesn't Tear Other Women Apart For Wearing WHATEVER THE FUCK THEY WANT
The it's a reasonable
By anon
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 5:44pm
The it's a reasonable argument to make that athletic wear and casual wear in public is a little too common. No, not everyone is so busy that they can't wear something that is a little less casual or better looking. People used to manage to dress up, probably too much according to some. The point is that there's valid arguments on both sides, and not all casual wear is something that's best to wear outdoors. People can look nice without much effort.
One could also easily argue ...
By anon
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 11:01pm
... that having so damn many categories of clothing is totally ridiculous.
You sound like my MIL with her dungarees, jeans, pants, slacks, trousers, dress pants, etc. Ridiculous. Jeans, pants, dress pants, DONE.
That article
By Scumquistador
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 8:35am
Just makes me feel bad
Simple fix
By anon
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 5:48pm
Change in a more respectable outfit and your self-worth will soar.
#globetips
Everybody Wins!
By anon
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 7:51pm
The person with a conflict of interest who generated this puffy advertorial, the employed writers of this piece (and of automotive, real estate, 'style', entertainment industry, etc. pieces), the 'news' outlets that subsist on advertising revenue from editorially-promoted businesses and industries.
CONSUME... CONSUME... CONSUME...
Random thoughts on the matter
By anon
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 8:36am
The worst thing is her demand to stop wearing clothes picked up off the floor. If I follow that rule, I'm naked.
I gotta believe the unshowered people on the Red Line are far more unshowered than her Dover friends.
Yoga pants and leggings are not just for suburbanites. She should see what some of the ladies in my Dorchester neighborhood wear.
I wonder what she thinks about saggers.
agree
By reader
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 11:01am
How many times could you count the word "suburbs" in that piece. I don't spend much time in the suburbs, but based on what I see in the city, I don't think what she's talking about is necessarily geographically specific to the suburbs.
Having said that, outside of a work context, I don't really care about what other people wear...if it makes them happy, fine by me...
Counterpoint
By statler
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 8:41am
https://warningcurvesahead.com/2016/06/04/24-thing...
<3
By Cranky
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 10:09am
I love this so much!
A counter-counterpoint with a
By Badger
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 11:09am
A counter-counterpoint with a side of silliness:
Top 20 Things NO WOMAN Should Wear After 30
i don't know about the
By neguy
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 8:42am
i don't know about the suburbs, but yoga pants in the city are the greatest thing since sliced bread.
How About....
By Lisa
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 8:46am
how about everybody wears what they want??? If the author wants to wear dresses and silk shirts to run errands have at it. I'm heading out in my yoga pants (after a real yoga class) to do the same thing.
Me thinks this lady from
By anon
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 8:48am
Me thinks this lady from Dover has a different reality than most.
I checked out her blog - I couldn't read it for too long as I need to actually go to work and when I saw the link to the kids bikini that cost $125 I realized we live in 2 separate worlds. I don't even have kids but if I did I damn sure wouldn't pay $125 for a baby bathing suit!
Good luck to her but if someone wants to go out in dirty clothes it's something she should embrace as it doesn't affect her in any way.
It's not a blog
By SubwayFan
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 12:01pm
It's full of tracked affiliate links, meaning she gets a cut of anything you purchase off those sites. She's actually making money that way. And there's no writing, just a lot of copy/paste off various marketing materials. No commentary of any substance. It's badly put together, and the blog makes her Globe "article" look like Pulitzer material.
children's bikini
By anon
Tue, 07/12/2016 - 1:19pm
That says it all right there.
judgmental reporters with too much time on their hands
By anon
Tue, 07/12/2016 - 2:08pm
Who buys their child a $125 bikini? Oh, right... someone who bitches about mothers who don't wear expensive silk blouses while they shop for groceries with their toddler. What an ungracious snob.
What a prig
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 9:12am
Somebody needs to be reminded that the all the world is not a stage under their direction (and what people choose to wear is not all about what other people think).
Sorry, Swirly
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 9:41am
Rush (the band, not the pillhead) says "all the world's a stage," and as much as I respect your work, you're not cooler than Rush.
OMG
By ElizaLeila
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 9:47am
Shakespeare
(edit to remove unnecessary invective)
You douche
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 11:29am
I know it's (expletive) Shakespeare. I wanted to credit Rush.
Aren't
By ElizaLeila
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 12:08pm
you sweet?
Is that ever the point?
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 12:56pm
I'm intellectually curious and honest. Those are the two most important human qualities.
After humbleness of course.
By Jswift
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 1:11pm
After humbleness of course.
Actually
By ElizaLeila
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 3:39pm
I find this hard to believe.
Hater
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 4:03pm
I ask questions about things and I will give you a straight answer to most any question you ask me.
Let me see if I understand you
By ElizaLeila
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 6:17pm
I'm a douche for pointing out your incorrect attribution. If you wanted to credit Rush, you should have noted you knew it was originally a Shakespeare line but preferred Rush. But I'll accept being called douche: it is a cleaning item here in America, and in France a shower or bath. Cool, I like clean things.
I sarcastically called you sweet for calling me a douche, but I think I actually mean it sincerely now. :)
And yes, being sweet is often the point. It makes getting along with others easier. Even when disagreeing. And no, I'm not always sweet, there are times when the opposite is necessary. There are also the many shades of emotion/personality in between that work as well.
And lastly, you called me a hater. I'm not certain why. There is not a lot I hate in this world. I find your statement that you're 'intellectually curious' curious based on how you've been interacting with me. No other reason.
Go read the 24/7 check cashing thread
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 6:50pm
I posted some nuance in there.
but rush is such a terrible
By bractune
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 2:47pm
but rush is such a terrible band.
Celebrating diversity
By Will LaTulippe
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 3:17pm
Glad to see the deaf participating in UH commenting.
Second half
By anon
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 10:03am
"We are merely players".
-Shakespeare 1570 or so ... not Rush 2112
Not stage managers. RTFC.
Swirly has the Sprit of Radio though.
By issacg
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 10:17am
n/t
... and we are merely players
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 10:40am
Even Rush quotes that much from Shakespeare.
Read my comment again - I said that she thinks she gets to be the stage manager, not one of the actors.
I bet she was that girl that nobody would play house with.
But, hey, thanks for the Limelight hangover.
I just threw up in my mouth
By MassMouse
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 9:33am
Really lady? That's all you have?
She has more than that, I'm sure
By anon
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 10:16am
Like a trust fund.
Must be sad to be reduced to nitpicking other women's appearance as "journalism".
The thought of mesh, lace, leather, or color block leggings...
By Sally
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 10:39am
sounds so Real Housewives it's almost unbearable.
Well Well Well
By BostonDog
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 9:37am
I'm just glad that the after all the buyouts and layoffs the Globe never lost their journalistic integrity.
Win
By lbb
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 9:44am
Best possible response. You win the internet.
Oh give them a break!
By bulgingbuick
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 4:13pm
Maybe you are unaware but there is a screenplay to follow up the Glob smash hit "Spotlight", I got a sneak peek of "Leggings, a Suburban mom's Fashion Crisis". In one emotional scene a yet unnamed Globbie says through tears: "It's time, Linda! It's time! They knew and they let it happen! To MOMS! Okay? It could have been your mom, it could have been my mom, it could have been any of our moms. We gotta nail these fashion scumbags! We gotta show people that nobody can get away with this; Not a Natick nympho, a Newton tennis mom or a freaking Stepford wife!
Powerful..
And another thing.
By anon
Mon, 07/11/2016 - 9:46am
What's the deal with staying in pajamas? I see this all the time from moms. It's a cry for attention, "Look at me! Look how busy I am! So busy I can't even dress before I go out!"
Not buying the shtick.
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