Altering a school blazer

BellaBargains

DS starts school on Tuesday but we haven't bought him a blazer as our DD hardly wore hers (gotta love our Scottish weather -rain with everything). BUT.....I would love him to go to school on Tuesday in a blazer and wondered whether it would be possible to alter DD's old blazer to suit a boy by sewing up the button holes and then sewing the buttons onto that side a creating new button holes on the other side? Is it just the way that the jacket buttons up that is different? There are darts at the front that start in the pockets and go up to the breast pocket - is that a girl thing? Would that be a deal breaker?

TIA

Owain_Moneysaver

I don't think the darts are different, assuming that girls have the pocket on the same side.

However it will probably not be possible to sew up the buttonholes invisibly and that may be noticed. First day at school is probably traumatic enough without being teased for wearing a girlie blazer. You could probably get away with a girl wearing a boy's blazer, even unaltered.

Maybe he could just carry it over his shoulder so it looks like he's got a blazer, but not actually wear it?

meritaten

NO - he cannot go to school wearing a girls blazer! there is no way to sew up buttonholes invisibly, plus you would have to make buttonholes on the other side. and if there are front darts, then that would be girls only to make a waist outline.........boys blazers are more 'boxy'!

BellaBargains

Thank you for your honest answers, I appreciate it - I was worried it might be girlie but didn't want to say! To be honest I think we'll have a fight on our hands getting him to wear the uniform at all. I expect it will be raining on Tuesday anyway.

PudseyDB

My input......from past experience traditional school blazers were unisex and generally the same whether boys or girls. Modern ones sometimes differ though. What does it look like on him? Does it look like it fits?

If so, then altering the buttons is do-able, as long as the buttons are big enough to cover the existing buttonholes, as you'll be sewing the buttons on top of where the old buttonholes were.

Or.....I noticed Asda are selling blazers cheaply £10 or £11 depending on size. I noticed with these - the girls blazers are cut shorter on the body.