School uniform - shall I be bloody minded?

Lovaabargain

At ds3's school the boys have the logo embroidered just below the waistband of their trousers & the girls have it embroidered just above the hem of the skirt.

Both skirts & trousers cost between £15 & £20 per pair/skirt depending on size & are only available from the school. The trousers are exactly the same as the ones from M&S so I buy these & ds has never been in trouble (so far!), I always make sure that he has the logo'd jumper, tie, blazer, correct shoes etc.

Surely if the children are going in looking smart & clean then the school should not have a problem, I know at ds3's school there are a no. of girls wearing the correct uniform skirts & they have them turned up so many times at the waistband that they look positively indecent!

vik6525

Cloe wrote: »

Thankyouu:)

Urr.. youu dont see your stomach when youu lift your jumper, well i dont think youu do:P.
Yeahh its the same for boys.
Except they have pockets in their trousers whereas girls have them so tiny youu can barely fit more than some coins in there, and they are really pointless:L.
Some people used to cut and stick the logos, but now youu get sanctions and detentions, if youu have the wrong coulour scarf, have coat/scarf/hat etc. on indoors, have no top button done up. And the uniform checks are more regualar.

.xo

Hey Missy!
Silly question, but whats the worst that could happen if your Mum sends you into school in 'normal' trousers?
If its any consolation, I know for a fact that you're not going to be the only one.... My friends son hasnt got the 'proper' school trousers yet either....

Vik xx


Ps... Hows them funky braces?

Poppy9

Difficult to rally parents together as since she's gone to secondary school you don't really meet parents like in primary. Not so much dropping and picking up from friend's houses etc as she's more independent now and her friends are new (i.e. not from primary because only 1 girl moved with her to same senior school). There are about 1600 pupils in school excluding 6th form.


p.s. DD can spell you.:D For some reason it's trendy to add extra letters to forum posts and her friends know she always posts bold on BEBO.:cool: Thankfully she's given up the habit of capitalising every word, that is obviously so yesterday:p .

If I can get her to hang up the phone (it's not free till after 6pm) and she has time before going for a sleepover, I'll try to get her to answer you Vik.:D

vik6525

Ah dont worry Pops!

My friend has the same problem every year with her sons uniform.... I think hes in the same year as your daughter, but hes an absolute strapping lad! Hes about 6ft2, and 15 stone (NOT a fatty, just really really well built!) and every single year the poor lad gets in trouble for his uniform, because they dont make them for kids as big as him....

Carmina_Piranha_3

Vik I have a toddler built like that, but thankfully we can get school trousers wherever we like. I know some parents at high school (they don't have to wear the logo clothes at primary, it's optional) can't get sweatshirts to fit their well-built children - even some year 7 children were too big for the large sweatshirts. They only do 3 sizes so what will these kids look like in 4 year time? My son is tiny (his nickname at high school is midget gem!) so he looks like he's wearing a dress when he puts on the small size sweatshirt.

Those same parents had trouble with the PE shirt too, although they can wear the trutex rugby shirt if they wish, and that comes in larger sizes. Too hot for summer though.

I can't imagine having to wear a school blouse or trousers - kids don't all have the same body shape, and it would be awful for a girl to have a shirt gaping across her chest. If the trousers only come in one style that would be a problem too. Midget gem needs adjustable trousers because he's so skinny, and he is too clumsy to manage belts yet - the shirts with buttons and the ties were hard enough for him bless him, he can't do laces yet either.

My nephew certainly wouldn't fit into a standard style of trousers, he's very well built. My mum came round with some half price asda trousers today and they don't have much material in them - perfect for my slender child but awful on my sturdier nephew. I don't know which trousers firm the schools use, but if schools here implemented a logo trouser I bet it would be one that skimps on material, because everything they well with logo is of the worst quality I've ever seen.

Carmina_Piranha_3

Poppy9 wrote: »

I've have raised the choice of supplier before (I'm in Wales) but they said that no other supplier will supply because there isn't enough mark up on them to make a profit as the school sell and only just above cost price (i.e. trousers are £11-18 a pair) if the school sells them also.

With such restricted selling hours and all the faff with ordering I bet a different supplier could add a substantial mark-up and still be able to sell them - not every parent can get to school during lunch breaks. Of course you'd be paying even more though, but at least the availability would be better

Poppy9

The sizing of school sweatshirts makes me laugh. DD is a petite size 6 in clothes (even Jane Norman and they are small!). Since Y8 she's been wearing a 34-36" chest sweatshirt and the arms are a bit on the short side. The next size is 38-40" which parctically comes down to her knees but the arms are the right size.

2cats1kid

bestpud wrote: »

Jeez, they'll be asking you to buy 'school' shoes next! :mad:

School I went to, there were school shoes! You were given the choice of 2 styles, one slip-on and one lace-up and everyone had to wear one of those two styles.

moggylover

2cats1kid wrote: »

School I went to, there were school shoes! You were given the choice of 2 styles, one slip-on and one lace-up and everyone had to wear one of those two styles.

Christ! They did that to us in my day (but it was a Grammar School so they tended always to be a bit ott - you paid for the glory of attending so to speak:rolleyes: ) - but I thought that practice must have died out years ago!


Edited to add: we also had some stunning, baggy, bottle-green knickers we HAD to have to go under our uniform - and woe betide anyone who had non-standard issue drawers on at sports time!

Poppy9

Update:

Tomorrow DD is going to school in her black casual trousers with a short note for her form tutor explain lack of stock and how I do not expect her to receive any sanctions for failing the dress code.

Also sending in a much longer letter to Head/GB outlining my dissatisfaction with access to buy uniform, stock holding, quality, sizing and logo (all referenced to guidance notes from WAG) plus the inspection process. As my OH says "only the police have powers of search":)