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[Cinnamon]

What about her wearing some tights & knee length boots to keep her leggys warm.

 

Boots are not allowed in the uniform rules.

I guess its to stop some of the little madams wearing mini skirts & thigh highs,like Bet Lynch

[The Dogmother]

I's forgotten that it is non-uniform day today - for the first time, she's worried about what to wear and has changed outfits several times this morning and there have been tears too My only rule was that it had to be warm, so her original idea of her Billabong t shirt has gone out of the window.

 

I guess she's going to be an early teenager.

[Cinnamon]

Mine finish at midday & Cleo is going into town with her pals to see St Trinians this afternoon.

Naturally this has meant she has taken a huge bag of clothes & make up to change in to.

 

I am a bit worried about the movie - not very PC to have schoolgirls covorting around in heels & suspenders these days,is it?

[Jules.]

I love DM's.

[Egluntyne]

Mine finish at midday & Cleo is going into town with her pals to see St Trinians this afternoon.

Naturally this has meant she has taken a huge bag of clothes & make up to change in to.

 

I am a bit worried about the movie - not very PC to have schoolgirls covorting around in heels & suspenders these days,is it?

 

Have just been listening to a piece on Woman's hour about it.

 

Quite PC in other respects...none of the children smoke apparently. Or take drugs a. It hints at gang culture a bit too.in a mild way.

 

The Headmistress is called Camilla and Rupert Everet is done up as a dead ringer for the Duchess of Cornwall.

[Guest]

Well it's non uniform day here today.

 

No seen a single girl in a short skirt

 

But there was a year 11 girl who is very well endowed wearing the tightest T shirt with a totally inapporpriate slogan on it. Might as well have said look at my ****. How her mother sleeps at night I don't know.

 

Oh and I have on my purple sparkly DM's - perfect for when I see THE JAM tonight!!!

[chickencam]

My daughter's school insists on skirts not more than 5cm above the knee, no nail varnish or makeup. Their top buttons are supposed to be done up but with the fashion for chubby ties they can get away with that one.

 

They are really strict on this now they have a new head my daughter even got told off for wearing a black coat with a small bit of fur around the hood.

They all wear black tights or long socks.

 

A uniform that is truly uniform is a great leveler, they still find ways to be individual but within limits.

[The Dogmother]

Rosie will be after those DMs Pengy!

[Guest]

When I was at school, the boys and girls had seperate stairways to get into the science & art block, so the boys couldn't look up the girls skirts.

[Guest]

Trouble is you never get sick of the DM's. I coveted these for ages but wouldn't pay for them - got them 20 quid cheaper on Ebay in the end

[The Dogmother]

These are the ones that Rosie has

 

She's on her third pair over the years. They don't make these ones any more

[Olly]

Apparantly only the worst sort of geek (ie,her sister) wears Clarkes shoes to school.

 

I was that geek ... my mum was an older mother, and had old-fashioned ideas. We didn't have much money, so a lot of my clothes were handed down from my sisters, ok except the nearest one in age to me was nine years older, so they weren't exactly fashionable. I can remember only too clearly the agony of always being dressed in things that were slightly too long, this was in the sixties after all, and having clumpy Clarkes shoes. I always felt like a misfit.

 

BUT ... I now have perfect feet, whereas many of my friends have bunions. The chiropodist once told me I should be grateful to my mother for insisting on good shoes, as she sees so many women with deformed toes.

Sorry, no help at all to those of you trying to persuade your children to wear sensible clothing!

[bronze]

 

A uniform that is truly uniform is a great leveler, they still find ways to be individual but within limits.

 

I completely agree. What you wear to school noway shows your personality anyway even if you do try to customise it.

[Tessa the Duchess]

Olly wrote:

 

 

I was that geek ... my mum was an older mother, and had old-fashioned ideas.

 

Snap Olly My school uniform was very strict and included outdoor and indoor shoes. Nasty clumpy Clarke's laceups for outdoor and equally nasty Clarke's sandals for indoor We also had winter and summer hats

beret things with a stiff band for winter and panamas for summer, these we

used to customise The beret things we would pin with kirby grips to the back of our heads and the thing to do with the panama would be to jump on it and bash it out of shape and then wear it with the brim turned down at a rakish angle...sad really

 

Tessa

[Guest]

I never put James in Clarkes shoes. They are soo overpriced and such poor quality. My Mum who alwayg bought clarks for me also things he shouldn't have them. Mind you the adult ones I wear are OK!

 

He had a fantastic pair of Timberland shoes last year, they were fully waterproof and as his feet didn't grow he wore them all year - at the end of the year they still looked like new after a good polish. This year Timberland only made school shoes with laces so we got him Geox ones which look a little tatty but nowhere near as bad as his friends Clarkes ones.

[chickencam]

clarks shoes don't last long but I have never known them to hurt the kids feet unlike a a pair that I bought from next which cost nearly as much and gave my YD a huge blister on the top of her foot.

 

My James still has clarks shoes but the girls are rebelling

[The Dogmother]

I have trouble finding shoes for Rosie; she has very wide feet, so I take what I can find, but both she and I are concerned that she wears comfortable, sensible shoes.

 

I couldn't find any summer sandals to fit, so she wore her cocs mary janes int he summer and they were fine.

[Egluntyne]

Olly wrote:

 

 

I was that geek ... my mum was an older mother, and had old-fashioned ideas.

 

Snap Olly My school uniform was very strict and included outdoor and indoor shoes. Nasty clumpy Clarke's laceups for outdoor and equally nasty Clarke's sandals for indoor We also had winter and summer hats

beret things with a stiff band for winter and panamas for summer, these we

used to customise The beret things we would pin with kirby grips to the back of our heads and the thing to do with the panama would be to jump on it and bash it out of shape and then wear it with the brim turned down at a rakish angle...sad really

 

Tessa

 

 

Sounds like we went to the same school Tessa.

 

I had an older (adoptive) mother too, Olly. Hence the plastic rainhood and her total incomprehension about my refusal to wear it.

[Olly]

aaaargh I'd forgotten the plastic rainhood debacle!

 

I KNEW my mum cared about me, and didn't want me to get wet and cold, and I hated arguing with her, but I just couldn't, couldn't bring myself to wear it. I'm afraid thinking about that one brings tears to my eyes now!

[Egluntyne]

aaaargh I'd forgotten the plastic rainhood debacle!

 

I KNEW my mum cared about me, and didn't want me to get wet and cold, and I hated arguing with her, but I just couldn't, couldn't bring myself to wear it. I'm afraid thinking about that one brings tears to my eyes now!

 

[Mrs Frugal]

Bet none of you had to suffer a bright dayglo orange kagoule in their teenage years . I used to prefer to get wet .

[Tessa the Duchess]

Olly wrote:

 

aaaargh I'd forgotten the plastic rainhood debacle!

 

Luckily my mum didn't force a plastic rainhood on me, however she insisted I carry a Pacamac at all times

 

Tessa