August 19, 2025 • 11 mins
Katie wants to chat about the fashion at the moment and why our teenagers look like they're homeless!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Apoday production, Welcome back to another episode Am I a
Bad Mom?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Podcast? The question we continuously asked, am I a bad mum?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm feeling really welcomed today. Look at you in your
active wear, like, thank you so much for joining me.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
That's okay. Rache text me earlier and said, just getting changed,
and then I was like, don't worry about getting changed.
I am inactive.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I am in active work because you have been running
mum errands prior to work. I'm into work still in
active wear.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And I actually had every intention of getting dressed before
coming to work, and I was so cold this morning
that I was like.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I can't do it. Yeah, I know, I'm freezing and
I've got like layers on and I was all my
legs were freezing. And then you were like no, I
mean actually where I was like, right out, well, you
can't beat them, join them. So then I walk in.
I was like, you really are in active for today?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah? Really, I'm really embracing this like middle aged mum.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Stage, that active leisure where to be comfortable. I know, well,
I don't blame you. I get it. All I'm saying
is I get it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
But talking about the school buses because my girls obviously
at high school and so they get the bus often,
and something we wanted to bring up on the podcast
because at the moment in Queensland it's fifty cents to
get a.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Bus, yes, like bus or train or like public transport.
Isn't that what? Yeah? Yeah, fifty cents wrong, don't quote
us on it, but it's fifty cents. I know that
for buses.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So why is the school bus six dollars?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I know?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
For one way? I was behind a car the other day,
wrote and on the back of the car there was
a sticker and it said if public transport was more affordable,
I would be on it. I looked at the car
a few times and I was like, it's fifty cents
much more affordable. Do you surely you're paying more in
(02:21):
petrol for whichever route you're going on right now? Yeah?
And fifty cents on the bus.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
What kind of car was it? I don't know. Was
there a rough rider? I mean, that's why they want
to be on a bust That bad? It wasn't I
remember my first concuse me I'd wanted to be on
public transport too.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Am I bad mum for not understanding the fashion.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Well, clearly we don't, but that's okay.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So last night, right hollywhen and she says this often
and I brush it off, and she goes, can we
go out for dinner? And I was like, you know what, Yes,
we can go out for dinner. I just was in
one of those moods where I was like, I can't
be bothered to cook.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I don't want to fight them some nights. Is that
where you come from, You just look at it and
go I don't want to fight you. Ea to night
if I go out for dinner, I don't have to
fight you because you'll choose what you want to eat.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
And usually, Rach, I've been getting into what I feel
like it's quite a good habit on the weekend of
going to a butcher that I really love, getting our meat,
going for a walk around the river, grabbing the vegetables
or whatever we need for meals, and then I'm pretty
organized for the week. This week I was not that,
and so I was also like, Okay, we don't really
(03:47):
have much to choose from, so yeah, yeah, we can
go out for dinner. I called the girls when I
was leaving work and said, just let you know, we'll
go out back steakhouse. Yep, I'm wearing active work because
I've just been for a walk. So don't worry about
dressing up, rach, I'm going to show you the video
of what Holly rocked up to dinner wearing.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I also love it that you're taking them through an
outback steakhouse and the vegetarian. Thanks mom. I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Black baggy track and hang on socks and slides because
you're making me.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Oh, you're making me. Thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Amelia comes around the corner. It's not much better.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I looked at them and I was like, I blame
Justin Bieber right now for the fashion that looks like
you're homeless. It's like where what you would wear if
you were homeless or just around the house, Like, have
you seen what Justin Bieble wears? Sometimes? No, mate, do
(05:11):
you know out he's even getting photographed. We don't get photographed,
no paparazzi here.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I think it's not Justin's fault. I think you set
them up for that. You said I'm inactive where so
this is where we're going? So he played it down.
Don't dress up? Yeah, the followed instructions. I mean for
me what they were wearing. I have a gig, like
because I go, I get around the house and that
sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, but bad, bad, But there.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Is some form of train going on at the moment
with ugs, because my children as soon as winter started,
they were both upset and we're like, we need ugs.
And now everywhere we go, no matter what outfit is on,
the ugs are on.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah. And that was never a thing because I remember,
so I grew up in the UK, where I had
ugs and was obsessed with them. I think Britney Spears
will yeah yeah, and you made them like super famous
or whatever, and I order us from Australia.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I've never even been to Australia, but he knew that
we had hugs.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I knew he had ugs, and I wore them to
work all the time.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
And I remember when I then met my now husband
and he introduced me to Australian friends and they were like,
I would never wear hugs to work. They wore ugs
as slippers.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah yeah around the house. Yeah yeah, But then they
started to shift because they got like ones where you
had like hard bottoms so you could wear them out.
I don't ever know that I ever got on a trend.
I think I was more along the lines of comfort
before beauty, because I genuinely love wearing our boots and
(06:51):
I don't wear them outher house very often, but there
will be times where, oh my gosh, forgot something. Need
to go down to our highly expensive IgA and get something,
and I'll be in ugs. Do you find that offensive?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I don't, but I I'm just finding the fashion at
the moment. Just in general. It's the baggy jeans, the oversized,
it's the baggy on baggy with the with the socks
and slides.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I'm not a socks and slides kind of gal. The
crocs like all, I'm not a crocs girl.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
All of it. I'm finding really quite upset offensive.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It's offensive. What are you wearing? Why do you look
like that?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Also, these tiny little pretty girls in their teens and twenties. Yeah,
and I'm like beautiful figures, like and they're wearing these great, big, massive,
wide legged pants like clown trousers, big shoes.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
But it's in at the moment. Someone has thered a
trend on the baggy jeans, the wide legs their back.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah, I know, but I feel like someone's having a laugh.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
No, one. I was just going through the motion at
everyone's go back to your childhood right now, go back
to your childhood right now, where you were their age.
Tell me one horrific outfit that you now I'll look
back on and you go, oh that was rough.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, like a purple shiny shell suit. You know the
shell suits called shell suits.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Here a shell suit.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It's like a track suit, but it's that shiny material.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Oh it just make noise.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, yeah, horrible, horrible.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I just genuinely remember, Like for me at the girls' ages,
we went through a phase of short skirts standard but
like boob tube and like a Hawaiian top over the top,
like a Hawaiian print sort of shirt over the top
of that. And then sketches with a platform.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Oh yeah, so yes, my scally platform trainers. Yeah, yeah,
boob tube. I think I had a lime green one
and an orange one.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Your nips would have been showing for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah. Hypercolor T shirt? Oh how good was a T shirt?
Remember the ones that changed color when you oh my gosh,
which you would literally never want now. So I had
a purple one and when it got warm it went pink,
so you'd get like a big pink patch under rampet
who wanted that.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I was never a huge fan. I do remember those though.
I was never a huge fan of tied. I like,
I never got into like, oh yeah, I've got to
have tied Ie. Never got into it. But I did,
and I have talked about on this podcast before. I
loved those track pants that you could unbutton all the
way to top. That was very Spice girl again, wasn't it.
(09:45):
They did remember mel what's her name, the sporty Spice
used to wear them all the way unbuttoned. Add trackies. Yeah,
now it's just burks with socks. Even my girls ten
and twelve they say the same thing. Man, we've got
to get a pair of birks.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
They're expensive.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I was like, no, not, yeah, we need burks. Everyone's
got burks. You wear birks and socks now you're ten
and twelve.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
No, it's like someone's gone, okay, let's take the ugliest
parts of fashion, put it all together and make it
really in.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I've always been like sort of toying with it, right,
if I have a really baggy top, I mean, look,
I'm probably doing it now. If I have a really
baggy top on, I'll have to have something a little
bit tighter on the bottom, because if I wear a
baggy top with baggy pants, I look like a solid
brick shit house walking around. I don't cope because I
just look like one solid brick. Well, why do you
(10:38):
want to wear baggy with baggy Yeah, because it doesn't
make sense.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, I blame Justin Bieber, and I blame Billie Eilish,
and I've just quickly on that, don't Billy Eilish. I
would never tell my girls this because they actually probably
murder me in my sleep.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, they love her.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah. My theory is that she had someone clever involved
with her marketing early on that went dressed like a
fucking weirdo, and you will stand out, and you will
stand out. Yes, she's a great singer. Yes, she's got
great songs. So have so many people, Right, what's her
point of difference The fact that she looks like a weirdo.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yeah, yeah, that's her point of difference. Like you'd almost like, oh,
and then you create that individuality like we're so like
in your own league, and then you're going to be
like and then people want to wear what you're wearing.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, because they are.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I don't get it. They are like, I know, but
the girl's loving it. And so you started the socks
with back though Justin.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Bieber's worn socks with slides for a long time. And
you know, we don't like to judge on this podcast,
but there's definitely a lot of times I see people
on the street and I go, what's funny.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
It's not judgment, it's just like it's asking a question.
It's like a really good, open ended question, do you
know how you're dressed today?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
And this is hilarious because it's coming from too year
olds that active here in office.
Apoday production, Welcome back to another episode Am I a
Bad Mom?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Podcast? The question we continuously asked, am I a bad mum?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm feeling really welcomed today. Look at you in your
active wear, like, thank you so much for joining me.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
That's okay. Rache text me earlier and said, just getting changed,
and then I was like, don't worry about getting changed.
I am inactive.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I am in active work because you have been running
mum errands prior to work. I'm into work still in
active wear.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
And I actually had every intention of getting dressed before
coming to work, and I was so cold this morning
that I was like.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
I can't do it. Yeah, I know, I'm freezing and
I've got like layers on and I was all my
legs were freezing. And then you were like no, I
mean actually where I was like, right out, well, you
can't beat them, join them. So then I walk in.
I was like, you really are in active for today?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Yeah? Really, I'm really embracing this like middle aged mum.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Stage, that active leisure where to be comfortable. I know, well,
I don't blame you. I get it. All I'm saying
is I get it.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
But talking about the school buses because my girls obviously
at high school and so they get the bus often,
and something we wanted to bring up on the podcast
because at the moment in Queensland it's fifty cents to
get a.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Bus, yes, like bus or train or like public transport.
Isn't that what? Yeah? Yeah, fifty cents wrong, don't quote
us on it, but it's fifty cents. I know that
for buses.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So why is the school bus six dollars?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I know?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
For one way? I was behind a car the other day,
wrote and on the back of the car there was
a sticker and it said if public transport was more affordable,
I would be on it. I looked at the car
a few times and I was like, it's fifty cents
much more affordable. Do you surely you're paying more in
(02:21):
petrol for whichever route you're going on right now? Yeah?
And fifty cents on the bus.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
What kind of car was it? I don't know. Was
there a rough rider? I mean, that's why they want
to be on a bust That bad? It wasn't I
remember my first concuse me I'd wanted to be on
public transport too.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Am I bad mum for not understanding the fashion.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Well, clearly we don't, but that's okay.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So last night, right hollywhen and she says this often
and I brush it off, and she goes, can we
go out for dinner? And I was like, you know what, Yes,
we can go out for dinner. I just was in
one of those moods where I was like, I can't
be bothered to cook.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
I don't want to fight them some nights. Is that
where you come from, You just look at it and
go I don't want to fight you. Ea to night
if I go out for dinner, I don't have to
fight you because you'll choose what you want to eat.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
And usually, Rach, I've been getting into what I feel
like it's quite a good habit on the weekend of
going to a butcher that I really love, getting our meat,
going for a walk around the river, grabbing the vegetables
or whatever we need for meals, and then I'm pretty
organized for the week. This week I was not that,
and so I was also like, Okay, we don't really
(03:47):
have much to choose from, so yeah, yeah, we can
go out for dinner. I called the girls when I
was leaving work and said, just let you know, we'll
go out back steakhouse. Yep, I'm wearing active work because
I've just been for a walk. So don't worry about
dressing up, rach, I'm going to show you the video
of what Holly rocked up to dinner wearing.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
I also love it that you're taking them through an
outback steakhouse and the vegetarian. Thanks mom. I can't wait.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Black baggy track and hang on socks and slides because
you're making me.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Oh, you're making me. Thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Amelia comes around the corner. It's not much better.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I looked at them and I was like, I blame
Justin Bieber right now for the fashion that looks like
you're homeless. It's like where what you would wear if
you were homeless or just around the house, Like, have
you seen what Justin Bieble wears? Sometimes? No, mate, do
(05:11):
you know out he's even getting photographed. We don't get photographed,
no paparazzi here.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
I think it's not Justin's fault. I think you set
them up for that. You said I'm inactive where so
this is where we're going? So he played it down.
Don't dress up? Yeah, the followed instructions. I mean for
me what they were wearing. I have a gig, like
because I go, I get around the house and that
sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Yeah, but bad, bad, But there.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Is some form of train going on at the moment
with ugs, because my children as soon as winter started,
they were both upset and we're like, we need ugs.
And now everywhere we go, no matter what outfit is on,
the ugs are on.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Yeah. And that was never a thing because I remember,
so I grew up in the UK, where I had
ugs and was obsessed with them. I think Britney Spears
will yeah yeah, and you made them like super famous
or whatever, and I order us from Australia.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I've never even been to Australia, but he knew that
we had hugs.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I knew he had ugs, and I wore them to
work all the time.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
And I remember when I then met my now husband
and he introduced me to Australian friends and they were like,
I would never wear hugs to work. They wore ugs
as slippers.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah yeah around the house. Yeah yeah, But then they
started to shift because they got like ones where you
had like hard bottoms so you could wear them out.
I don't ever know that I ever got on a trend.
I think I was more along the lines of comfort
before beauty, because I genuinely love wearing our boots and
(06:51):
I don't wear them outher house very often, but there
will be times where, oh my gosh, forgot something. Need
to go down to our highly expensive IgA and get something,
and I'll be in ugs. Do you find that offensive?
Speaker 1 (07:03):
No?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
I don't, but I I'm just finding the fashion at
the moment. Just in general. It's the baggy jeans, the oversized,
it's the baggy on baggy with the with the socks
and slides.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
I'm not a socks and slides kind of gal. The
crocs like all, I'm not a crocs girl.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
All of it. I'm finding really quite upset offensive.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
It's offensive. What are you wearing? Why do you look
like that?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Also, these tiny little pretty girls in their teens and twenties. Yeah,
and I'm like beautiful figures, like and they're wearing these great, big, massive,
wide legged pants like clown trousers, big shoes.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
But it's in at the moment. Someone has thered a
trend on the baggy jeans, the wide legs their back.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Yeah, I know, but I feel like someone's having a laugh.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
No, one. I was just going through the motion at
everyone's go back to your childhood right now, go back
to your childhood right now, where you were their age.
Tell me one horrific outfit that you now I'll look
back on and you go, oh that was rough.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, like a purple shiny shell suit. You know the
shell suits called shell suits.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Here a shell suit.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
It's like a track suit, but it's that shiny material.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Oh it just make noise.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Yeah, yeah, horrible, horrible.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I just genuinely remember, Like for me at the girls' ages,
we went through a phase of short skirts standard but
like boob tube and like a Hawaiian top over the top,
like a Hawaiian print sort of shirt over the top
of that. And then sketches with a platform.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Oh yeah, so yes, my scally platform trainers. Yeah, yeah,
boob tube. I think I had a lime green one
and an orange one.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Your nips would have been showing for sure.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah. Hypercolor T shirt? Oh how good was a T shirt?
Remember the ones that changed color when you oh my gosh,
which you would literally never want now. So I had
a purple one and when it got warm it went pink,
so you'd get like a big pink patch under rampet
who wanted that.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
I was never a huge fan. I do remember those though.
I was never a huge fan of tied. I like,
I never got into like, oh yeah, I've got to
have tied Ie. Never got into it. But I did,
and I have talked about on this podcast before. I
loved those track pants that you could unbutton all the
way to top. That was very Spice girl again, wasn't it.
(09:45):
They did remember mel what's her name, the sporty Spice
used to wear them all the way unbuttoned. Add trackies. Yeah,
now it's just burks with socks. Even my girls ten
and twelve they say the same thing. Man, we've got
to get a pair of birks.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
They're expensive.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I was like, no, not, yeah, we need burks. Everyone's
got burks. You wear birks and socks now you're ten
and twelve.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
No, it's like someone's gone, okay, let's take the ugliest
parts of fashion, put it all together and make it
really in.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I've always been like sort of toying with it, right,
if I have a really baggy top, I mean, look,
I'm probably doing it now. If I have a really
baggy top on, I'll have to have something a little
bit tighter on the bottom, because if I wear a
baggy top with baggy pants, I look like a solid
brick shit house walking around. I don't cope because I
just look like one solid brick. Well, why do you
(10:38):
want to wear baggy with baggy Yeah, because it doesn't
make sense.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Yeah, I blame Justin Bieber, and I blame Billie Eilish,
and I've just quickly on that, don't Billy Eilish. I
would never tell my girls this because they actually probably
murder me in my sleep.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, they love her.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Yeah. My theory is that she had someone clever involved
with her marketing early on that went dressed like a
fucking weirdo, and you will stand out, and you will
stand out. Yes, she's a great singer. Yes, she's got
great songs. So have so many people, Right, what's her
point of difference The fact that she looks like a weirdo.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Yeah, yeah, that's her point of difference. Like you'd almost like, oh,
and then you create that individuality like we're so like
in your own league, and then you're going to be
like and then people want to wear what you're wearing.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, because they are.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I don't get it. They are like, I know, but
the girl's loving it. And so you started the socks
with back though Justin.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Bieber's worn socks with slides for a long time. And
you know, we don't like to judge on this podcast,
but there's definitely a lot of times I see people
on the street and I go, what's funny.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
It's not judgment, it's just like it's asking a question.
It's like a really good, open ended question, do you
know how you're dressed today?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
And this is hilarious because it's coming from too year
olds that active here in office.
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