To think that plenty of schools still have brown uniform?

I live in Ireland, & and the school one of my girls goes to , it’s brown skirt/ pants , brown jumper with school crest & mustard shirt ..
Dunnes stores, I’m thinking is equivalent to your Asda in Uk & they don’t stock them at all ..
We have a uniform shop where I live that stocks all the local school uniforms ..
Do you not have one of those where you live ?

Asda have had no stock of brown school skirts since this time last year. Believe me, I’ve been checking!

I bought the pinafores up the sizes we’ll need to year 6 last year, but skirts have been an issue.

I also prefer the M&S yellow school dresses, as they don’t fade like the others. I bought early this year thankfully. I hope the get their online stuff sorted out and don’t do bust as someone suggested recently as they don’t stock the yellow in store near us. We have one of the big flagship/concept stores, a couple of medium ones and a few small ones, so being able to get them from a physical shop isn’t due to lack of branches!

Ah, yes, I agree that all my teacher friends have a much higher level of caffeine requirements, not surprising given the hard job you do. We bought DS fabulous teacher at primary a generous gift voucher for the funky coffee van just up the road from the school and she said it was one of her favourite presents ever

I’d hope that a teacher would know that Wales is part of the UK!

Shoes were a constant battlefield at my secondary school (girls only, 1970s). There was a point when we were only allowed to choose one of four approved styles from Clark's. Not really workable, so that went west. The same bunch of genius governors decided to introduce a summer uniform which had to be made at home or by a dressmaker. We had no sewing machine and no sewing skills, so we were very fortunate indeed to have a good-natured neighbour who offered to make mine. We had to buy the patterns (blouse or button through dress) and sufficient fabric (you could choose from four colours, plain or hideously patterned). One of the stupidest uniform ideas I've ever heard. It didn't last long so that was an utter waste of time and money. They went over to a simple open-necked white shirt after that, replacing the winter combo of ordinary shirt plus school tie.

I know exactly where you mean! Oddly enough, both my parents-in-law attended that school in the 1920s and 1930s. I never thought to ask them if it had a brown uniform back then, and it's too late now.

Notre Dame school near Elephant and Castle still has a brown uniform - Catholic girls' secondary.

St Thomas the Apostle in Nunhead - Catholic boys' school - has maroon blazers. Maroon is another colour I associate mostly with Catholic schools.

The only school I knew with a brown uniform (private, church school), switched to blue a few years ago. I think "brown uniform" schools are very much in the minority.

I travel all over my county for work and can’t think of a single school with brown uniform. They are all mostly navy or black, with one or two grey.

Primary schools are often white, blue or red polos/sweatshirt style tops with black/navy trousers or skirts/shorts, and some have blue/red pinafore dresses for summer.

My dd wore brown uniform when she started in 2001. In 2002 they changed the uniform as brown was hard to get

There is a mainstream secondary school near me that has a brown uniform, which my kids don’t go to. It’s definitely the only school that I’ve ever seen with a brown uniform.

St Louise’s in Belfast has a brown uniform. Used to call them the brown bombers back in the 80’s/90’s🤣 (toilet, not terrorist, related for clarity - not sure which is worse!) It’s still brown, but they changed the shirts, tie accents and badges from a horrible yellow that nobody suited to mint green, which actually looks very smart. Not that my opinion matters tbf.

I can only think of one in my part of Glasgow - and that's Jordanhill school which is a unique place in the terms of how its run and funded. They have brown blazers and the children can wear either dark grey or brown skirts/trousers.

All the other state schools are black/grey/navy skirts or trousers and jumpers in green/red/navy/royal blue.

No schools near to me have brown uniform. All seems to have black, charcoal grey or navy with red, blue or green tops. As long as ASDA does it you shouldn't have a problem.

Asda stock brown. If sizes are not available give in a couple more weeks, they will be awaiting stock for the new year now. Online is more reliable for rarer items, I used to order all the uniform for pick up as easier than trying to find specific sizes in store.

The thing is, if there’s a colour that you avoid as an adult, it might as well be brown. School uniform isn’t meant to be mega stylish.

OP, I can only think of one school that wears brown near us, and they are a small independent.

It's getting harder to find navy too. M&S favour black or grey.

I wore a brown uniform in secondary in Deptford, London. I liked it. That was 30 years ago. The school still has brown uniform. There are a couple of schools in london with it

I am 32 and have never seen a child in a brown school uniform in my life.

I can't remember ever seeing school uniform in brown

DDs went to the East Herts single sex one when it was a plain brown blazer and ankle length brown kilt which was well liked by the students. Then they changed to an A line short skirt and now they have some god-awful yellow edged lapels on the blazer. Apparently if you want to wear trousers they have to be made to measure from a single supplier. This is a state comprehensive, I’ve heard the HT is moving on so maybe the uniform will be dragged at long last into the 21st century.

I can think of 2 with identical uniforms - brown jumper / cardi, brown skirt or pinafore, yellow & brown tie (one in the neighbourhood where I grew up, and one which my own 3 kids went to).
My youngest left 7 years ago but when we were there, you could get brown skirts in M&S, Asda, and a local independent uniform shop.

I was coming on to post about the same school.
My DS was the last year to wear the brown when he was in reception or year one and he is 29 this year so they must have changed to blue and gold 25 years ago!

I liked the tradition of the brown but things like getting brown school shoes was def a challenge!!

@Nametobechanged there is a school where I live that is brown and yellow. When they were having a new school built the school community were asked if they would like to keep the uniform or choose a new one. They chose to keep the old uniform. But not many schools here have that colour. And here we do not have to wear the logo uniform you can buy your uniform in the supermarkets or M&S if they sell your school colours.

Brown uniform has never been very common, I'm surprised supermarkets ever stocked it. I went to 6 different schools with a uniform, only one of them was brown.

None of the schools in our area have a brown uniform. It's not common, I wouldn't think.

It's a shit colour! Even worse than the hated bottle green of my former secondary school!