Black school sandals?

[zacklesMum]

DS is starting reception and needs 'black leather sandals, not suede, canvas or open-toed' ????? They don't seem to exist! Can anyone help? He's a size 9.5/ 10.

[Toohotforfishandchips]

Why do you need them ?!?

[zacklesMum]

It's the school uniform.

[MrsCakesPrecognition]

Why? Surely he just needs a pair of shoes?

[Toohotforfishandchips]

For winter?!? I would then call the school and ask where to get them!!!

[MrsCakesPrecognition]

I'm imagining this sort if thing, but I still don't see why they are necessary. Very peculiar and oddly 1950s.

[zacklesMum]

MrsCakes, thank you hugely. I've been searching for hours.

[Bunbaker]

That's a weird style of shoe to be part of a school uniform. I assume you are not in the UK?

[nonicknameseemsavailable]

is it a private school who want them to wear them indoors? we used to have indoors and outdoors at my private school because the playground had lots of grass and mud. indoors had to be t-bar sandals.

I would be amazed if you can buy them nowadays and agree that you will have to ask them to tell you of a supplier I think. Perhaps they just mean lighter weight shoes? most boys school shoes look the same though to me.

[MissWimpyDimple]

I remember that start rite used to call a particular style of shoes sandals. They were the old fashioned style with a t bar and stitching around the sole

[BikeRunSki]

I was thinking of what MrsWimpleDimple described.

[Bunbaker]

So was I. I used to wear them when I was a child and DD did when she was about two years old - like these

[BikeRunSki]

Them's the jobs, although now very old fashioned for boys to wear them.

Maybe they mean not trainers, not velcro, not lace ups?

[FinDeSemaine]

Kids' Birkenstocks come in black, if that helps at all.

[MillyMollyMama]

This post really takes me back to the horrors of "black" indoor shoes with light coloured soles required at my grammar school. According to my Mother, there was no such thing in the 1960's so my Mum dyed a pair of Startright crepe soled sandals black. They were brown in the first place and had a T bar with buckle. After 2 days I refused to wear them because they were awful!!! I felt the embarrassment very acutely and I continually had lines as punishment for wearing my outdoor shoes - inside. It was worth it not to wear the hated dyed shoes. My Mother refused to buy what the other girls were wearing. It was the dyed horrors or nothing. Any school specifying particular shoes should tell you where to buy what they want.

[blueberryboybait]

What about these 5th pair down on the right?