I'm writing to defend 'Mom Jeans.' Sure, I hate to look frumpy while chasing after my 14 month old son, but sometimes frumpiness is the uniform I have to wear. When I take my son to his Little Gym class, I have to be sure to wear a pair of pants that completely covers my rear because his class calls for exercises in which I have to participate. I also have to be sure to wear a nice, big t-shirt so that I don't inadvertently show off the business up top as well. It would be great to look great all of the time, but I sometimes wonder if these high end stylists and designers have actually tried to chase after preschoolers, or try to play with them in crazy positions. If they did, I think that they might be a bit more forgiving to Mom Jeans and the like.

I am a shlumpadinka!! So glad Oprah called me out and forced me to take inventory and get my act together. The styles shown are easy to recreate. I can relate to the women on the show!!

Hello Oprah!,

My name is Toni Alexander and yes, I am a Shlumpadinka, unfortunately. Don't get me wrong I like to look good
but, my dilemma and question is...how do you not be a shlumpadinka when you feel like crap 90% of the time?

In 2001 I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and most days even though I want to look good, I wind up looking like I feel (a hot mess!). Oprah can you or Lloyd please tell me what I can do?

Sincerely,
Toni Alexander

I am a Shlumpadinka but I am a mommy to 4 month old twins, I stay at home and when I'm not feeding, burping and changing diapers I am cleanning the house or doing laundry. Is it realistic for me NOT to dress like a shlumpadinka?

I AM A SHLUMPADINKA! I am a stay at home mom and I take night classes 4 days a week. I always were jeans and jogging pants with tennis shoes. I only dress up on Sunday for church or on the weekends, if I have an engagement to attend. I were jeans, jogging pants, sweaters and tennis shoes so much that when I do dress up I don't feel good or feel like I look good, eventhough I know I do. I am glad that I saw this show because I am literally crying. I saw myself in just about all those women and I don't want to be this way anymore but I don't know how to let it go. I'm comfortably uncomfortable!! I want to look hot again, feel great again and be able to really smile on the inside as well as on the outside. I do love myself, but I have just let myself become last on my list over and over again. My husband and my 3 girls have more to wear than I do! (That's just how bad it is) I'm ready to be a sexy person, wife and mom again!!

The perfect white shirt ... as a professional career woman, it is the ONE item I have been searching for for years. And it's finally here!!! Well of course, there's a catch. It's available from ONLY one place. And it costs nearly $100, but that I don't mind as much, because if it were twice that price, I'd still pay it because it's such an important, albeit still missing, piece of my wardrobe. But, worst of all, it is sold by Brooks Brothers who still refuses to believe that a woman over the size 16 can, and should wear, such an item. That's it ... top size is 16. If you're above that, you're out of luck. Clothing manufacturers ... get a clue!!! Why can't you provide the clothing to ALL women, ALL sizes. I need to look good too. My money is just as good as the skinny woman from Glencoe who probably doesn't even work anyway is charging her clothing purchases to her investment banker husband's Amex. What a disappointment! The shirt is out there, only it's not available to me.

Dear Oprah, I just finished watching your February 20th makeover show and as delightful it is to see those lovely women made over, I am personally left with the realization, "that's not me and can never be me" feeling. I am almost 63 years old and have found myself in a strange age group and body 'morphing' place that Oprah and others infrequently address. We are the very front end of the aging baby boomers with older bodies and all the clothes and styles available out there seem to be focused on the 50 and under group. If you could, please consider a makeover show that predominantly features 60, 70 and even 80 year old women. At present, my closet is filled with an array of clothes from several past eras ! Please...this older generation needs help!! Thank you!! Susan Borghesi

Just read about your "Shlumpadinka Makeovers!" The ladies look fantastic, can not wait to see the show tonight. It is very easy to be a "shulmpadinka" when you are home cleaning, and cooking, whether you have children or not. I do not know about you, but when working at home I am a slop. So that is why I am up at the crack of dawn, cleaning, washing, and even preping food for dinner while still in my pajamas. Once I am done that is when I shower, change and constantly remind myself, especially on the weekend get dressed half way decent. Press the pants, take the sweats off. You see I am single and one never knows when you will meet someone not mention how many times you run into someone you already know when you look like a "Shlumpadinka". Thanks for the reminder. You know there are men who are also "shlumpadinka's" how about making them over? Men need to go out in public all put together too,

Loved this show but I want a Shumpladinka Makeover for Big Girls. Yes one woman was bigger in size but give me 5 big women not 1 big woman. Show me where us big girls can get affordable stylish clothes!

I am a totally a Shlump and a dinka! I work from home and hardly get motivated to change out of my track pants for days on end! Blah! Holly in Canada

Ha ha ha ha ha... I am sitting here in my upgraded sweats... but still ~ I do make an effort to dress when I am home, which really changes my mood. Every time I saw the ad for this show, and heard the "It's only 16.50???" I thought of an amazing documentary I saw recently called China Blue, about the young women who leave their families in China and live in barracks (only way I can describe it) and work long hours, aid very little and often late. I highly recommend viewing this film ~ please seek it out.

Those women on your show today do not even begin to describe shlumpadinka. They all have bra's on and their sweats are matching. I am bonafied shlumpadinka, wearing mix match shlumps for days and it doesnt matter if I wear them out of the house or not because no one kinows me anyway. I did get a pretty good haircut before Christmas but it has now turned gray and matches my shlumpadinka shirt! MY WHOLE LIFE IS A SHLUMPADINKA! Since I was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer a few years ago and unable to hold down a fulltime job, my husband was transferred to a new area with his job and so now I live every day in a SHLUMP. I don't care if I see anyone, do anything, those women are beauty queens compared to my life as a SHLUMPADINKA\

Laurie Court
Stony Plain, Alberta Canada
"SHLUMPLAND"

Ater today's show, I suppose I do have some Shlumpadinka tendencies, but I'm not sure that I can do anything about it! To be blunt, I've gained weight and frankly don't even enjoy shopping for clothes for myself the way I used to. My husband loves to see me fix myself up like I used to.... For work, I manage to pull myself together, but that's a whole other issue and don't even get me started on the love-hate relationship with my hair!

So, "Shlumping" seems to work best for me, especially on the weeknights after I come in from work. Shlumpadinka-ing works well on the weekends, especially when you're racing across town to get one child to scouts, back to the other side to get the other child to basketball practice, get groceries, run the dog to and from the groomers and...

On the rare occasions when I feel like going out, I do kick things up a notch; when I go to church, I try to look presentable. Most of the time I feel like I'm throwing myself together enough to look presentable to the public. Iused to have a full make-up routine every morning; now, it's a onestep process: lipstick.

I thought today's makeovers were nice but I was extremely disappointed in the lack of diversity. Also, it really would be nice to see a makeover for middle-aged women!

Thank you thank you ! I have recently had to retire from my job as a nurse due to illness and after all these years of caring about my appearance as I left the house in the morning I now find myself reaching for the old jeans and the sweatshirt instead of the snappy skirt and top and the old Crocks instead of the other gizzillion lovely pair of shoes I own ...I have struggled for so long to keep going and keep my spirits up and I know that it is time to make over me in all ways ....just not sure where to start !

I'm certainly looking forward to the reversal of todays show; From sexy to schlumpy!! I'd like to see top models in baggy trousers without make up. I'd love it!