miss sexy trousers - school are not allowing them but its the first i have heard about it and its only september!!

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dd normally has trousers from new look but they tend to go bobbly.
so she said her friends were all wearing miss Sexy trousers. they were quite cheap.
the school allows bootleg but not lycra or denim, usual story i imagine.
i read in the newspaper at the beginning of the month about a school that had banned miss Sexy trousers and now DD and others are being hauled out of the classroom and told to buy new trousers.

i have said not until october half term.
she has only had them since June or so
AIBU

Here's a pic of a girl in a pair

here

They look tight and uncomfortable to me

What do you mean "plenty of other countries don't have problems with teens"?

What a load of tosh. I've lived in several countries and the same problems exist everywhere, uniform or not.

And, in many countries where there isn't uniform, standards are still expected. In France, for example, I taught in a school with no uniform but the kids weren't allowed baseball caps, low slung jeans, tight clothes etc.

"Having no uniform code to adhere to, and allowing pupils to wear whatever they like would be hell."

Seems to be OK here in Germany tbh.

Maybe being teased/bullied for not looking right is a British thing?

well done the school for banning them.

they are yuk

IF YOU look At the miss Sexy website they must give schools a real headache, with their rara skirts and whatnot.
they market themselves as school uniform providers.
just a shame the school didnt get their act together before i bought the trousers
and i do believe in uniform. i can't stand non uniform day

but the ban is almost certainly a reaction to the fact that so many girls have turned up wearing these clearly inappropriate, sexy skin tight trousers. If the uniform stated black trousers, maybe the school had hoped that parents would buy appropriate uniform style trousers. Only when so many decided to interprt the rules rather broadly did they feel they had to make a stand, despite the amount of complaints they are bound to receive.

so maybe it's the case not that the school was being tardy on getting their act together, rather the school responding to people basically flaunhing the rules?

Thank goodness I´m not the only one who thinks that those trousers don´t look at all suitable for school.

(Is so old that trousers were never an option as part of the uniform & dresses had to be worn in Summer)

Schools automatically ban anything slightly popular, whether it's conkers, British Bulldog or whatever trousers are classed as fasionable by the majority of pupils. They do it deliberately to create a feeling of unease amongst them in a power trip. It's just yet another way of grinding any sort of individuality and spontinaity out of young people. If you don't fit in you get beaten down until you give in and conform.

WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION..

but isn't it also conforming if all the girls are wearing micro mini skirts/skin tight hipster, regardless of whether they suit them or not?

We need an MN British Bulldogs Championship.

In south africa you have school uniforms, and they can only be bought from a particular supplier (so you can't get any old black trousers, you have to get the special prescribed overpriced black trousers).

That's how they do it.

I spent my teen years turning my skirt around and rolling it up to create a mini, then quickly unrolling it when we had skirt inspections. Good times!

I prefer uniforms. When I was at school there was a no uniform policy and the amount of bullying that went on was unbelievable. A uniform takes pressure off families that can't afford the 'better' clothes.

Half the fun of being at school is trying to bend the rules and get one over on your teachers. Allowing kids free reign to do wear whatever they like would take the challenge away.. and how boring would that be?

School is the first step towards learning how to co-exist in society, and children need rules and boundaries, even down to their appearance.

AbsDuWolef - Ah happy days indeed! Remember the annual trip to John Orrs to get fitted out for uniform? How I hated that day!

I don't understand the reasoning behind school uniform design. If schools and schoolwear designers were really committed to creating wearable, practical uniforms which allow everyone to dress the same, they'd be pushing identikit, unisex combats and t-shirts with school logos on them, like many adult uniforms. It's not even about preparing for adult life either: how many adult women go to work in a blouse, tie and nasty logo blazer? None, except perhaps stewardesses on cheap airlines?

Jesus a lot of you are killjoys. Lets just dress teens in burlap sacks and have done with it.

The name itself makes me puke. I'm with the school.

I agree clanger. When I'm in charge (and it won't be long, trust me ) standard school uniform will be jeans, polo shirts, trainers. Problem solved.

Vote me!

The trousers would look minging with school uniform.

Though the trousers themselves are not 'sexy'. Sexy is in the eye of the beholder.

I'm usually quite laid back about this kind of stuff but I would draw the line at letting a child wear a brand called 'Miss Sexy'. Totally inappropriate. They also sound/look like a cheap rip off of the 'Miss Sixty' brand.

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John Orr! That takes me back. I remember when I got my primary school uniform (kilt) when I was 6. It was down to my ankles as it was so megally expensive it HAD TO LAST until the end of Std 5 (about 12/13)

Showofhands, have you asked the school why they give the kids shite to eat but won't allow you to provide oaty muffiny things?

Can you make them into bar shapes instead of muffins, and call them cereal bars? Add more oats and call them flapjacks? Or give her oats and raisins and yoghurt to eat it all together? A big tub of plain yoghurt costs 70p for ownbrand, and you'll get 4 or 5 kids portions if you're adding fruit and oats to it