Washing school ties

Wilma33

When I started school my mum bought me 1 tie and it had to last me until I left the school. It was put in the wash at the end of each term. Tell your children to take better care of them!

Spendless

tyllwyd wrote: »

How dirty are they? I would just hand wash them in the sink rather than put them in the washing machine.

There's an ink stain on one, more of a biro brushed across it than an actual blob and the rest is 'grubby' from prolonged use rather than rolling around in the mud dirty. More it isn't bright and shiny anymore. I'm going to give one of the ties a wash, I'll try handwash, see what happens and then machine wash if it doesn't bring it up

Spendless

Wilma33 wrote: »

When I started school my mum bought me 1 tie and it had to last me until I left the school. It was put in the wash at the end of each term. Tell your children to take better care of them!

I don't believe I asked how long people managed to keep their own school tie for? Rather a question of washing them, since I've had issues when my husbands end up in the wash. My own school tie I never had many, but these do snap quite easily. I've had it happen to me as |I've held it.

The last time I sought advice on making kids school stuff last longer it was about school shoes and I got a reply just like yours. It later turned out that son had flat feet, and needed supports which is why the shoes were going the way they were. so no amount of 'telling my children to make them last longer' would have helped. Perhaps you would like to give this some consideration when replying to posts in future

JoW123

I've washed my son's school tie on a delicate wash most weeks as he often spills food on it and its been fine. I dry it in the airing cupboard. He's on his second one this year as the clip broke on the first one as you say.

flipper_72

When the clips break can you sew elastic on instead? (this is a question as I am not sure if it is possible/would work but if it does it would save buying so many but not solve the cleaning issue!)

Spendless

flipper_72 wrote: »

When the clips break can you sew elastic on instead? (this is a question as I am not sure if it is possible/would work but if it does it would save buying so many but not solve the cleaning issue!)

Hmmm I don't know. I'm not much of a sewer so not sure how it would work.

I tried hand washing the tie when I saw the reply this morning. I didn't agitate it much as it started to wrinkle, so I smoothed it out and decided to let it drip dry on the line. I've just gone to check on it and the clip has broken. not the actual clip but the bit it presses on to, you can see all dried glue flaking away from it and the clip is no longer aligned. Washing it even how I did it, must loosen the glue on it and that was without me putting it in the washing machine!

My 3 remaining ones I think can remain emergency spares and I'll buy 2 new ones for sept tonight. Don't think it's worth me risking anymore.

lostinrates

Is a non clip version available? It seems the clip really is the weak point!

Otherwise I second the elastic idea. Its what the littlies did at our school ( where older ones ties normal ties), and the elastic never broke, if it did could be replaced easily. Ties went through generations......( I know that's not what you asked)

Spendless

lostinrates wrote: »

Is a non clip version available? It seems the clip really is the weak point!

Otherwise I second the elastic idea. Its what the littlies did at our school ( where older ones ties normal ties), and the elastic never broke, if it did could be replaced easily. Ties went through generations......( I know that's not what you asked)

No clip on ties only. They used to do a non-clip version before son attended school for many years, I attended the same school! School changed it for the clip one a few years ago, giving reasons that the kids weren't tying them at the right length and that it was a health and safety risk if they started pulling them. This is a Secondary school not Primary and ties are only available to buy from the school at £3.50 each and a different dearer one when they go into yr 11. With 2 kids at the school from Sept and a year left until I have to get son a different tie alltogether, you can see why I was trying to prolong the life of the current ones.

clairec79

Is it worth asking some other parents of kids at the same school what they do - definitely sounds like the clip is the offending bit (and as you have 4 ties I'd probably try resupergluing it back on - if you knacker it you still have 3 left)

Of course I wouldn't worry about a bright and shiny tie either - the ink I'd try and get out though but just not sparkly and new (I seem to remember our school ties all had the white taken out for the bottom few inches (with compasses during lessons) no ones parents brought them new ones

Spendless

This isn't my son's school but it's a near identical tie

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/9869714/Schoolboy-excluded-for-wearing-regular-rather-than-clip-on-tie.html

and this is what it looks like at the back

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=clip+on+tie&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=M6GqU9GhKJSM7Abf84HACQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=707#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=F2cKXLvhdGDTuM%253A%3BuJOOFVtVspbeRM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fupload.wikimedia.org%252Fwikipedia%252Fen%252F5%252F50%252FClip-On_Tie.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fen.wikipedia.org%252Fwiki%252FClip-on_tie%3B450%3B331