summer uniform

It was an airline - you were supposed to wear white underwear, this despite the fact the blouses were not very opaque and they had black staff. The UK staff totally ignored it (but no bright pinks or leopard print bras).
Our blazers have to be worn between buildings, main reason to ask is so they aren't just dropped on the floor and become a hazard. They are used as pencil cases and there is no where to store coats (which is why no one wears them).

Private secondary (but with govt funded places)

Girls can wear short sleeved open collar blouse & no tie in the summer

Jumpers optional at all times. Blazers only have to be worn in assembly or when on show (choir, prize days etc£

But my 7 and 11 year olds are quite capable of not losing their jumpers.

Amberthecat
The probable reason for having to ask permission to remove jumpers is that if the jumpers are being worn , they're not lost .
Take a jumper off , leave it on the chair , in the dining hall , in the school yard , it's lost .
Are senior school jumpers name labelled ?
DD lost her school jumper ( left in hall after dance lessons ) and wasn't allowed in canteen as she didn't have her jumper on .
She didn't have a spare as I only bought 1 each as they are £22 a jumper.
That's why they have at ask permission or there will be 1600 jumpers in lost property

Your company tried to dictate the colour of your underwear?! I'm intrigued now! What did the company do (and what colour did they want your underwear to be?!)

I just don't understand the reason why a school would require a pupil to have to ask to remove a jumper or blazer. What's the benefit?

AmberTheCat - those are the school rules, if you or your children don 't want to go with them then you should look for a different school. To be honest the first phrase they learn in a foreign language is "please may I remove my blazer" and they never have to wear jumpers if they don't want, teachers just about always give permission (maybe not if the class was just about to relocate).

They are also allowed to wear non-uniform when there is heavy snow - so not this year.

But there are other schools with different uniform rules - and none are as strict as a US company I worked for which tried to dictate the colourful of underwear.

I find it amazing how many people seem to accept ridiculous school rules without questioning them. Why on earth should anyone have to get permission from anyone else to take off their jumper or blazer if they're too hot?!

After half term they can wear house shirts (subject to their year group having been good on Uniform before). When the temperature gets high they are allowed either normal uniform or house shirts without blazer.
At present it's mainly abit cold for summer uniform IMHO.

State secondary. Jumpers, shirt and tie compulsory in winter and permission required to remove jumper. Option of school poloshirt in summer, no jumper necessary.

At formal events DC are required to wear ties and shirts again though.

State secondary. Jumpers and blazers off with heads' permission, ties ditto. Girls wear opaque black tights all chuffing year.

I don't think that blazers improve standards

But they can look very smart (and I love the way they wash...my life is so sad!)

Uniform lunacy does seem to attach itself to blazers in particular. Our school was canvassing for opinions on whether to introduce a blazer; DS was quite keen to have one as an option (lots of pockets! Somewhere to hide the illicit mobile!), but not if it led to petty rules about wearing them.

This school doesn't seem to have much in the way of disciplinary problems, so I hope they won't feel like buying into the line that Blazers Improve Standards.

DD's girls comp - they can wear short navy socks instead of long ones and they don't have to wear their jumper but need to wear blazer unless permission given to remove it.

Crikey? I bet the teachers are in shirt sleeves. I don't understand the sense in not being able to take a jumper or blazer off? Some of the classrooms when I was at school were absolutely boiling in the summer. I think I'd have passed out if I'd had to sit there in my jumper (100% acrylic) and blazer!

schilke not only do they need permission to take their blazers off in school

They are unable to take their blazers off unless they are in their home (or car)

State secondary.
Blazers must be taken to school, optional to wear. Jumpers and cardigans are optional. No summer dress option.

Permission to take a jumper off? How ridiculous. Here my boys can wear a school polo t-shirt in the summer term. Blazers are needed for assembly. It's the same for the girls too.

State primary.
Girls can wear gingham dresses in lilac or yellow. Or shorts. Or their usual uniform.
Boys can wear shorts or their usual uniform.
As far as I'm aware they can wear whatever (from the uniform list) they want at anytime of the year - the only concern is that what they are wearing is weather appropriate.

Goodness. I must ask DD and DS whether they have to ask to remove their jumpers.

I doubt it, given DS rarely remembers to take one. No blazers either (cheerily scruffy bunch that they are).

My one gripe with summer uniform rules was that they aren't allowed hats outside -- but when I raised it with them (because DD's optician had said she ought to wear one), the head of year just said 'Of course, that's fine.'

Uniform stays the same - long or short sleeves are choice of the individual child and not dependent on the season, DD1 has been in short sleeves for about 6 weeks now.

School is sensible about allowing blazers to be removed, as soon as the temperature goes up, blanket permission is given, but the blazers do need to be brought into school. It works well.

I'd still prefer no uniform at all.

Uniform stays the same

They all wear blazers but If it's very, very hot they are sometimes given permission to take them off

If we have what passes for a heatwave in the South of England, the school gives the boys permission to go without the blazer and tie.

My boys wear short sleeved shirts all year round as they find the long sleeved ones restrictive under a blazer.

Uniform stays the same for both ds and dd
Once in a lesson, at ds's school then it was up to the teacher to 'allow' them to remove their blazers, but they still had to have them at school.
dds' school doesn't have blazers and the uniform doesn't change (you would just not wear your jumper if it were hot)

Uniform stays the same .
Permission needed to take jumper off here too .
I think it's so they don't leave the jumpers behind and lose them

DS's school - same uniform year round. Permission to remove blazers all day given at morning assembly (I think) if very hot, or by individual teachers in specific lessons.

Primary has optional shorts (year round) for both sexes, and optional summer dresses.