Need some white clothes for daughter's nativity - urgent!

Minerva69

My DD brought home a note from school yesterday to say she is being a sheep in the school nativity play. They have said she has to wear a white skirt and a top or a white dress and some white tights. We already have a top but not the other stuff, I'm going to have to buy them, they have to be at school by Thursday!! Anyone know where I can get some white clothes from, on the high street, not too expensive?! It's her first ever one so I want to get it right Thanks!

KarenBB

If her skirt is long she could get away with knee length socks, my girls are big now so not sure if anywhere has white tights in in winter. You could make a shirt from an old white sheet or cheap new white sheet. Cut off the length you need, fold the top over and sew with enough room to thread some elastic through and sew up the side, easy. It you use the edge of the sheet to be the bottom you won't even need to hem it. You could even just buy some white fabric and sew from scratch - I tend to think of working with what I've got hence the sheet idea first. My daughters have always oved it when we've made something ourselves. I'm far from the best seamstress but have a laugh having a go. I remember making angel outfits where all of the seams were done with wonderweb.

Charity shops are always worth looking in if you have the time. We rarely got much notice to get an outfit together and were always running round to get something sorted.

Good luck and enjoy the nativity.

Minerva69

Thanks KarenBB but I really don't do making things - I'm rubbish at it and I'm the worst seamstress ever!! Don't have any thread or elastic in the house! I think I've found some tights on the Asda website, going there today anyway so will have a look and see what they've got!

KarenBB

I didn't do making things until I started needing things for nativity etc. After my first try with wonderweb I did get a sewing machine but I think it's only been used to make fancy dress things for the children where the quality really doesn't matter as long as it holds together for one day.

michelefauk

Primark do white tights, 2 pairs for £3.00 ish. My 5 yr old daughter has to have the same, white tights and top (she is an angel and the school are providing the angel dress) For the top I bought a pack of 2 white t shirts from Asda £1.75 (they were with the PE clothes)

HTH

jcr16

if you have a tesco near you they have some white bit's. I was at my local one friday and they had all sorts of nativity costumes, white tights. and i don't think they were very much either. i only got a quick look but prices didn't seem to bad.

or try your local freecycle of bit's.

dizziblonde

White tights should prob be easy enough in any of the supermarket clothes departments - I've always just asked parents to dig out a long white T shirt from an older sibling or whatever instead of faffing about trying to find a white dress or skirt for an angel costume.

If you're stuck - the way we always made costumes for all parts (just varying colours/adding teatowel/tinsel as required) was a long rectangle strip of fabric (could butcher a bed sheet or something for white) - hole along the centre line for head so it became a tabard, and then tie it around waist with a suitably coloured bit of fabric... could get away with that and just chuck her PE t-shirt on underneath if that's white. We always did that because then we just needed to ask parents to find either white tights or dark coloured bottoms depending on what job kids were - and because we could bang out all the costumes dead quick! Plus zero sewing or crafty bits required (and when you're the only staff member who owns and knows how to work a sewing machine - that's flipping welcome!).

Seems very late to be sending out the costume request letters - I always aimed for mid-November time (as soon as parts were decided upon basically) to get ours out for the plays in the last/2nd to last week of term.

Apart from the very posh private school I worked at where all the costumes were hand made by staff (yes we sat eating sandwiches at sewing machines for weeks) and the only fabric we were allowed to use was to be bought from John Lewis... oh heck the wasted money killed me!

LJM

can you not borrow them from someone at school,im sure the tights are easy to come by and can always be worn again, a long white adults tshirt and tights should be enough for your LO i wouldnt buy something that they may not wear again

boiler_man

I second the oversize tshirt and tights - that is all my DDs have worn when they were donkeys, sheep, cows etc

jem1276

Poundland had children's white nativity dress up sets today. :rudolf:

li'l_p

Might be OTT but Home Bargains have a sheep/lamb outfit in their christmas stuff.