Madonna makes dressing gowns fashionable

So I just came across a picture of Madge, better known as Madonna wearing a dressing gown to the airport! Lo and behold, when did wearing dressing gowns become fashionable? And especially as day wear? Well, in her case, it was night wear I suppose since she was exiting her Sticky and Sweet tour and was heading to the airport. Hmmm. If only the rest of us ordinary folk, better yet, middle aged women, could make dressing gowns look that glamorous! She's definitely doing something right. Now all it's going to take is a few paparazzi to get Madonna's picture, stick it in the magazines and bam! Just like that dressing gowns will be the new rage. Dressing gowns will be worn to lunch meetings, fancy dinners and definitely to the movies. Dressing gowns will be the next staple in the business woman's attire. Will men be far behind to follow this dressing gown trend to the office? Hmmm again.

All of which begs the question: why is it that when I wear dressing gowns to the local school to pick or drop off my children that my children run away in terror? Why do the other mums not take one look at my pink chenille dressing gown and wish they were me? Why do the other parents not rush out and copy my style? Why do the other children not wish their mums dressed like Sarah's or Joe's? Is my dressing gown any less worthy of notice than that of Madonna's? Perhaps. Or perhaps the colour and make of my dressing gown isn't worth mentioning in the magazines? It's enough to give one a complex about dressing gowns. I strongly object to the sheer madness of it all. All dressing gowns ought to be treated equally. Fair and just treatment for all dressing gowns is my motto. So the next time I choose to waltz through Starbucks in my pink stars and blue moons dressing gown, I expect nothing less than star treatment. One round of Frappuccino's for all in agreement!

By the way, for those interested souls, Madonna's dressing gown was a white towelling dressing gown in the style that a boxer wears to the ring. It also had 'Dancing Queen' embroidered on the back. And for those same curious souls, my dressing gown is pink chenille with embroidery on the collars stating 'No. 1 Mummy'.

How could you not love that?