Labelling school uniform

elona

Last year I got "taggits" they are ordinary labels that come with a plastic tool that tags it to the garment without having to sew. Fantastic!!!

dlb

Hiya chatta, i know my post about some parents cutting lables out may have seemed silly, but believe me on one occation my youngest son lost his jumper, which i had only his name wrote on the lable, my son told me a certain other child in class had it on next day, he knew it was his has he has a habbit of chewing his sleeves and had a small hole in the cuff which i hadnt got round to repairing.
I had a word with the class teacher who had a word with the childs parent ask if there had been a mix up during pe, and the parent just said no, i always cut out his lables as they rub him, The fact that this child had never had a school jumper with logo before this day just mad me mad.

This is why i now write on the clothes themself not lables.

V.Lucky

I get mine from ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/50-Iron-On-Name-Tags-50-Sticky-ID-labels_W0QQitemZ330019211000QQihZ014QQcategoryZ315QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


I have nothing to do with this Co - just a satisfied customer.

They stay on in the wash, are easy to apply and good value for money.

FunkyFairy

snoozer wrote:

You can get iron on name tapes (you do write the name on in indelible pen but I would have thought that was acceptable).

BTW I once ordered one set of embroidered name tapes for my two and put one initial in front of the surname and the other after eg L Smith C, then when sewing them on folded under whichever initial wasn't wanted so one would read L Smith and the other Smith C.

I did the same thing both my children are J L so i ordered one set of labels with J L then our surname.

redballoon_2

could you not get some scraps of fabric and cut on the childs initials and stick them on to a square peice of fabric with some of that wonderweb stuff and then stitch the square peice of fabric into the clothing somewhere?

carrottopsuk

Kelinik wrote:

Its that time again when I find myself with mountains of school uniform to name. I was wondering what the other parents do as this year the school has said writing names in pen won't be acceptable (what I normally do) so I've got to find another way. The kids came home with adverts for labels to buy but when I looked on the website it was going to be over £10 per kid! I just want a resonably quick and easy way of naming all the kids bits and considering that includes summer and winter uniforms, tights and socks, lunch boxes, juice + water bottles, shoes, pe kits + bags, reading folders, aprons, colouring kits etc etc and so on I'd rather not use anything that needs sewing lol! :eek:

Any ideas please?

Did they say why it is unacceptable?

jockettuk

V.Lucky wrote:

I get mine from ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/50-Iron-On-Name-Tags-50-Sticky-ID-labels_W0QQitemZ330019211000QQihZ014QQcategoryZ315QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


I have nothing to do with this Co - just a satisfied customer.

They stay on in the wash, are easy to apply and good value for money.

got mine from ebay as well but the sew on kind.. i also somewere else on the uniform put her initials in so that if it ever went walk about i could look and see if it was hers

maryb

I have got one of thoe Dymo label makers that use paper to make stick on labels (not the old fashioned type where you turn the wheel)and i noticed the other day that they now do a cartridge with iron on name tape in it. I haven't tried this but if you have got one of these labelmakers it would be worth getting the iron on cartridge

and if you haven't got one, i really recommend them. It makes life so much easioer to be able to label just about anything really easily

Kelinik

carrottopsuk wrote:

Did they say why it is unacceptable?

Yes, because of pen washing out and even though I've always used permanent ink I have to admit it does fade. It's just that they want everything labelled and I feel socks and the like are gonna be pretty itchy and uncomfortable with labels sewn/ironed in to them.

kscour

I bought a stamper with dd's names on when they first started school - you just add the ink onto the pad before you stamp. They are still going strong 6 yr's on with the original bottle of ink. I'm not sure of the make but I bought them from lakeland plastics (lakeland limited now). It is really only the same as using a labelling pen but they don't fade and you can use them on any fabric - even gym shoes.
I also had a disappearing school sweatshirt once - two days old and taken from the back of her chair in classroom during school concert. What parent wouldn't notice their child coming home with a brand new sweatshirt :mad: