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

"Nowhere in the OP does it say that it is stated in the uniform code that these trousers are not suitable. "

Perhaps the school had hoped that it would be obvious that they´re not suitable.

I don't know. I'm not claiming to know. I'm just giving an opinion like everyone else. No one here except OP knows what her school uniform policy is. I haven't got a clue. I'm not making assumptions. That's why I asked what the policy was.

Although, as I said earlier, I personally wouldn't have bought such trousers, I would've got the bargain 2 for 12 from M&S.

But anyway, thankfully a problem I don't have to worry about.

It's my experience as well that you get a lot of teasing and bullying about clothes in Germany - and boob tubes and hot pants in the summer.

I don't think YABU to replace the trousers at half term because the school didn't notify you of the new policy prior to the start of term.

I didn't have a problem with school uniform (left sixt form in '89). All our uniform had to be bought from a specific shop. It was a horrible uniform, but we just accepted that we had to wear it. We would spend ages planning what we were going to wear at the weekend and all share clothes with each other.

Cut out label, sew in name tape if unlocking to obvious. Attach Next or marks label under name tape if feeling very devious). Then ignore!
DDs school are having a massive strop about skirt length. I doubt more than one out of about 50 girls I saw waiting for her the other day got close

At ds school (a strict catholic one ) girls must wear skirts.

The headteacher memorably said 'in my school boys wear trousers and girls wear skirts,I wont allow a girl to wear trousers nor will I allow a boy to wear a skirt - if you dont like this then leave now there are 3 children waiting for a place in this school for every child already sitting here'.

So pleased was I that ds had never shown any interest in wearing a skirt we stayed sat.

Now we are on ds2 (he doesnt want to wear a skirt either) I have had 7 years of watching the same skirts (no bend on the style) getting increasingly shorter and shorter girls legs getting oranger and oranger and now the latest 'trend' is the very shortest skirt you can wear with long black over the knee socks with ribbons dangling down the cuff ...........I think fgs why not just let them wear trousers they look like bloody hookers.

Clearly I meant unpicking, but I have DD home from school and less tying peace.

Nickschick I suspect their mothers are encouraging them - easier to get the head to see sense than do the old got for sexism.

nickschick, I went to a very strickt catholic school that insisted on white tights and skirts only. of course we all wore black bras and black tights just to piss them off, we were sent home daily and once suspensions and expulsions came in to the play the 5th formers spent alot of time lobbying the practicality of dark socks and tights and also as we had to travel by boat in the freezing cold and winter winds at very early in the mornings they also requested that girls could wear trousers. It was very thoughtfully put together. The girls who put this propsal together were given detentions and threatened with expulsion.

Together with thier parents the children continued to lobby for girls to wear trousers. On an agreed day all the girls in the school where asked by these pupils to wear smart, taylored black trousers, all the girls were sent home every day for a week and then the school just didnt ever mention it again and we continued to wear trousers unchallenged after that then the following year it was incorportaed into the uniform policy. I dont think the school would have really been able to expel the whole female population of the school.

I've always wondered what happens if you refuse to be sent home/ pick your child up for minor things like uniform.
I lived in a small town 12 miles from school, no public transport, some parents had no car or phone. Most certainly had only one car and that would be at work mostly with Dad, who was probably not contactable easily, many farmers, builders and forestry workers, long before mobiles, so school never even tried to send anyone home

"I think the point which you are making, which many posters are missing, is that there was no directive about these trousers when you bought them, others were already wearing them. Now, when term is underway, the school are making a fuss."

As teenage trends change all the time, it is not always possible for a school to clock immediately what their students are going to start attempting to pass off as uniform. It's only when a number of them are prancing around in inappropriate items that a collective "No" is announced. If you seriously thought that any trousers with a Miss Sexy label were likely to be acceptable then more fool you, frankly. I'm pretty sure that my old school used to cover it by saying "no fashionwear."

why do they sell "miss sexy" jeans as a school uniform? urgh

Aside from being black, I am really struggling how anyone could possibly think they were suitable as school trousers.They are too low, too tight, have six big metal buttons on teh front and a red label on the arse saying Miss sexy!!

Miss Sexy?!??!?! Horrific. Definitely need to get the let girls be girls mumsnet campaign onto them.

If my DD carted me into town and showed me these trousers and said she wanted them as school uniform and that "everyone else is wearing them," I'd smell a rat and check it out. I would not buy them and then be all outraged when the school said they were unsuitable. I mean, did you really not know that already? Really?

are they even fashionable, they dont look too stylish to me. Definatly not what the youngsters are wearing around here. something likesome of these are far more suitable and much more trendy and flatering.

link did not work but similar and one or tow others under £20

Horrible trousers, sorry OP. Seen worn with miss sixty/ hooch bomber jacket with fur trim hood, tight blouse and cheap plastic 'pumps' at our school. Not a good look on the slimmest of girls.
Does the school uniform list say 'classic' black trousers? If it does, classic these are not.

spiderpig8 - well said. I'm guessing that the school assumed a level of common sense and that parents would recognise how unsuitable they are without having to spell it out......

They don't look like suitable school wear to me.

I think they are inappropriate for school and a bit tarty IMO. I remember when I worked at a mixed comp some of the girls wore trousers a bit like this and half the time their knickers were hanging out of the top.

My dd's wouldn't wear something like this outside of school even. the name says it all.

I'm 14 and my school allows them because the girls at my school have learnt how to pull their trousers up every once in a while.
Also the girls wear black tops underneath their school tops and pull them halfway down their bums 1) For warmth (no one likes a cold back) and 2) The school tops are quite short and when you bend over.. Uh oh, so we have to.
It's not the girls' fault, these trousers are comfy and if you're not rolling around in the mud with them then they will last quite a while. I've had mine since about April I think, and now I need to buy a new pair because the back panel has come detached and they have a small hole. But that's about it, they would probably last longer if I had looked after them better.
The school hasn't complained about them at all, it's just the nylon skirts that they're worried about (they ride up when you walk etc and are short anyway)

I know you guys are going to think I'm biased because I wear them and love them, and so do a lot of my friends, but c'mon, you know young girls have a pressure to be like everyone else. The schools shouldn't force them to wear unnatractive trousers if they feel and look better with the 'tarty' Miss Sexy's.

You can't even tell what brand they are unless you look closely at the 2cm^2 label that says the name on them.

My mum has no problem with them and neither do any of the thousands of mums at my school, or the hundred odd teachers.

They aren't too low, as a daily wearer of these trousers i would know, wouldn't I?

They aren't too tight, would you say leggings are too tight? It's hard to get them to be tight anyway, I'm an 10 on the bottom and the 10s were only a little bit tight, and I had to buy size 12 trousers so that I could get them on comfortably, and now they're baggy as anything.

Send your daughter to school in horrible trousers if you want, but if she prefers these then it'll only cause problems for her and for you.

So you're 14 and you registered on MN just to revive a 2 month old thread about trousers

My 13 yo DD would NOT be bought a pair of trousers for school (or at all) that had the frankly, vom-inducing name 'Miss Sexy'. She is a child. It is inapproriate. And besides, they have big metal buttons on, and are skin tight on anyone except the skinniest children.

She wears bootcut SCHOOL trousers from M&S. They wash well, wear well, and more importantly, are £12 for two pairs.

HTH.