To think that plenty of schools still have brown uniform?

SS Peter and Paul is the one I was referencing too!

Harris Orpington had burgundies blazers, kilts and floppy bow ties for the girls in the 90s/00s.

I think Harris uniforms look quite poncey! 😁

It's about to be bang on trend and the new classic according to the stylists.

My mum's secondary school uniform was brown pinafore and cardigan with yellow blouse and brown and yellow tie, but this was a convent school in the sixties. Last I checked the Catholic primary school in our neighbourhood had brown jumper and skirt/trousers with mint green shirt/blouse, which I always thought looked odd. Much preferred the burgundy and grey of the non dom school my children went to. I agree that brown is rather uncommon.

In 20 years of teaching the only school I came across with it (and it was bloody ghastly) was a small private school that's long since closed down.

Thankfully my kids' secondary does absolutely minimal specific stuff - the tie is the only real one, and the blazer is the same for the whole academy trust so there's loads around second hand, and the rest is supermarket-easy

My daughter has a brown school uniform. M&S sell the pinafore dresses as do Asda

I went to a school once where the uniform stipulated that we all wear brown, lace-up shoes! (although skirts and trousers were grey)

My DD’s school uniform is brown and can only be purchased from a particular shop. The blazer alone costs £120 and it is a state school. Option for trousers is brown again expensive and from school uniform shop. It has another colour going through the uniform which I don’t want to disclose but I have grown to like this traditional looking uniform, it’s smart and unusual.

Googled brown school skirts and got this www.schooluniform247.co.uk/School-Uniforms-by-Colour/Brown-School-Uniform/Brown-School-Skirts

We wore brown skirts or pinafores at my state Catholic primary school. Quite a few pinafores were homemade. We could wear yellow gingham summer dresses, which I liked, but my mum usually found brown gingham ones for me. Trousers and shorts were grey.

There are at least 2 schools in my borough that have brown uniforms. Interesting what you say about the girls being allowed to wear trousers but most of them prefer skirts. When I was at secondary school back in the late 1970s,the girls were not allowed to wear trousers and there was an ongoing (unsuccessful) campaign for us to be allowed to wear trousers,in the winter at least. How times have changed!

Yes! My cousin went there

Beaufort Loreto High?

One of the Catholic primary schools near me has a brown uniform with yellow shirts, and yellow gingham dresses in the summer. The other Catholic primary is grey with green tops/ green gingham dresses. There is a Carmelite convent here, so perhaps that is the connection as a PP suggested. The catholic secondary school has a navy blue uniform.

The other local primary schools are all grey with red/ blue/ navy blue tops/ dresses, which seem to be easy to find.

the now defunct grammar school I was talking about not only the colour but the style seemed way out of date, the school finished early 1980s.
right through to leaving they had to wear the following;
brown pinafore dress with a yellow sash
a nylon awful blouse
a brown blazer with yellow trimming
brown shoes with fawn socks
all the pe kit was yellow

I used to work in a primary school near me that had brown uniform until they were academised and it changed. There's still a secondary school near me that has brown uniform.

I had brown uniform with cream shirt at my grammar school, back in the 80s.

None of these schools are/were catholic!

My first school had a brown uniform. I just checked to see if it still had, and found that it closed in 2010!

The only school I can think of near me with a brown uniform is the Catholic secondary school. My mother went to a catholic school and wore brown, didn’t know it was a Catholic thing!

If it’s that hard to find you should mention it to the school and encourage others to do so as well. I don’t see the point of uniform in primary so if they’re going to do it, it shouldn’t be hard to source.

Two I know of locally. Looks quite nice. Black is very boring.

Yes we have brown uniform and it's getting annoying...

Reasonably common in Glasgow, always the catholic schools for some reason. We’ve got brown with yellow polo shirts/shirts and then brown with blue polo shirts/shirts round the corner.

Usually available in our local Asda in addition to the specialist uniform shops.

I can only think of SS Peter and Paul primary in Mitcham and st philomenas Carshalton.

Just checked with my mum as was on the phone to her and can confirm the Catholic girls school down the road is still a brown uniform. With a yellow shirt.

You have to buy it from one of two specialist uniform shops in the town.

They are not usual round here either. Black or grey skirts for primary, black for secondary.

We live in an area with lots of different colour polos in primary my kids went to a white polo school but round here we also have green, blue and red too.