Buying school shoes......

onlyroz

I bought Clarks for my two kids last weekend. Total cost of £70. I seem to have vague wistful memories of the day when kids' shoes cost about £20, but some of the shoes I saw on sale where £45 a pair :eek:

Anyway, they've both got a pair of rugged black Clarks shoes, but I've bought the PE trainers from Tesco because I don't see the point in paying a fortune for shoes that only get worn for an hour a week. I've had to ban my daughter from wearing her new school shoes until the term actually starts because I saw her riding her bike in them and using the tips to brake by dragging them along the ground :eek:

aliasojo

onlyroz wrote: »

...... but some of the shoes I saw on sale where £45 a pair :eek:

I paid £50 yesterday. Wasn't my happiest moment I have to say.

stiltwalker wrote: »

No school shoe shopping here as DD has clunky great piedro boots from orthotics - would kind of like to be arguing over shoes.

Aw.

Just look for the silver lining....free shoes.

(I'm not making light of your situation, my eldest spend years in the orthotics dept. )

aliasojo

Goldiegirl wrote: »

I see nothing's changed in the last 40 years!

My mum and I went through this annual trauma. In 1973, I wanted platform heels, but she was very resistant, as I'd 'break my ankles in those things'

Your post started me thinking last night.

I never thought about it at the time, but looking back, my Mum seemed to be a bit erratic about what to be strict about.

I was never allowed red Kickers (but I think that was more to do with cost tbh) yet I was allowed a pair of brown leather platform sandals, aged 12. They were huge things...(I googled 70's platforms but couldn't see the exact ones, lol). I would never in a million years allow daughter to have these, highest fashion or not.

I have a picture of me in them, leaning against a wall for support. :rotfl:

I wonder what she was thinking. :rotfl:

Maybe she'd had enough by that point and had given up. She was an older parent and often just wanted a quiet life, lol.

Goldiegirl

I think there's a lot of truth in the quiet life theory.

My mum never gave in on the shoe issue, but there was also the 'vest issue'

She wanted me to carry on wearing a vest, even when I started wearing a bra.

Wearing a bra and and a vest was considered very uncool in my school changing room, and I complained about vest wearing more than the platform shoes.

In the end she couldn't take anymore and agreed that I could ditch the vest. She said 'don't complain to me if you bl**dy freeze'. This was a woman who never swore, so she'd clearly had enough.

I never froze, and home life was a lot happier.

gunsandbanjos

Well that was rubbish! Ended up with patent ones that I didn't like but it was all that fitted her.
And we got no gym shoes as they all seem to be made for children with flippers rather than feet!