School dress ruined at school!

[DianaMitford]

As the title says. New dress, bought at the beginning of the summer term. 9yo DD, doing art today and black ink has soaked through her apron onto her dress. I washed it immediately she came home with Vanish and it's faded but it's ruined. I mean, she can still wear it but it's got black ink all down the front

My dilemma is that a new dress is £40 and there are no secondhand ones. Do I say anything to the school?? If so, what?!

[Pineapple5678]

£40 for a school dress!?!

[SparklesandBangs]

How is a school dress £40

[HangingRockPicnic]

Can't you buy one of the 2 for £7 ones from Tesco?

[kitchenunit]

Was the apron school issue? If so I would point out that they don't do a great job. No point the school spending money on shit aprons that don't protect their clothes.

[kimlo]

Terms nearly over I would just keep using it. She was wearing an apron so it was an accident, she should have been protected.

[MrsPigling]

I had similar with black paint when dd1 was in year 3. I took the dress in the next day and complained. I've no idea what the ta washed it in, but it all came out!

[araiba]

sounds like the best place for a school dress

[deste]

My DDs school dress was £35 and that was twenty five years ago. I suspect it is a private school and you have to wear the one specified.

[acasualobserver]

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(My thanks to a poster on another school thread who assisted me in making this list as helpful as possible.)

[HangingRockPicnic]

Ha ha Casual. Are you a teacher?

[OSETmum]

I'm assuming it's a private school, in which case YANBU because if they insist on £40 dresses, they should make sure they keep them clean.

If it's a state school, YABU for buying a £40 dress when there's perfectly good ones for less than a fiver in every supermarket.

[Reapwhatyousow]

Please just send her to shool in a clean (albeit) stained dress. Otherwise it sends out entirely the wrong message to a young girl that she ought to be spotless. Whereas young people go to school to learn and experiment and yes come home less than pristine!

[RubbleBubble00]

Iv had two polo shirts destroyed in last two weeks with blue paint and then back paint. Irritating but that's life at school

[PaulAnkaTheDog]

That's life. It's school.

Frankly I'm more concerned that you initially spent £40 on a school dress.

[freshprincess]

This close to the end of term I'd be reluctAnt to buy a new one. Depends how bad the stain is and how much trouble she would get into for having a stained dress.

[KleineDracheKokosnuss]

Summer dresses are £40 at my DDs school too, and have no give so the button holes tend to rip. So I currently send her in the boys uniform.

Keep using the dress. There's not enough time left in the term to bother changing it.

[Mumonthesofa]

My DC's shirts are stained with white board marker. I still send them in them, they are always clean and it is clearly a stain. if it were photo day or a trip I'd be sending them in sparkly new, but day to day I'd rather they relaxed and didn't worry about keeping clean!

[pristinechristine]

£40?!
£3 in the Sainsburys sale.

[TaliZorahVasNormandy]

I send DD is with stained uniform. With about 5 weeks left for her at school, I havent got anything new. Plus she grows like a weed so no point buying anything until September.

[NeedsAsockamnesty]

The dresses are £45 at one of my kids schools as well and you are not allowed to get them from anywhere else

[OliveBranchCollins]

DD's dresses are always stained by the tool of satan that is the mud kitchen.
I don't know what they have in it I have no problems getting mud out of sports kits including cricket whites

[AppleSetsSail]

What would you like the school to do?

I think you must live with the stain or buy a new dress.

[Andbabymakesthree]

£40 dress here too . Fortunately lots of hand me downs from school office.

Tackle it from the apron point of view.

[Hulababy]

DD did something similar, after 2 or 3 washes it did fade a lot more to just a couple of areas. I made her still wear it, and just hoped her other one (r was it two?) would stay nice enough for events when she needed to be more smart.

[HerRoyalNotness]

Id keep sending her in it until she has outgrown it.

My 2 go in clean but sometimes stained and occasionally with small holes (scissor cuts!), I'm not replacing school clothes until they're outgrown. They always look tidy for photo day and have a school tshirt for field trips anyway.