AIBU - not quite school uniform

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Call me an old fuddy duddy but I saw a girl wearing pleated culottes yesterday and couldn't help but make this face

What other odd items have you seen people wearing to school?

School summer dresses and thick woolly tights

Trying to work out why pleated culottes are odd. A crop top and hot pants to school would be odd but not culottes!

I used to wear culottes to school in the 80s, are they terribly outré?

Our primary is quite liberal on uniform, which is a good thing. Haven't seen anything too weird, well, sometimes some girls wear something too colorful.

You can still get culottes and I think they are brilliant for a girl who doesn't want to wear trousers (especially in warmer weather) but still wants to spend her time climbing or upside down (not a prudish point - a practical one, skirts get in the way).

Why are culottes odd? . Both of mine wear city shorts with tights I wonder if that's strange? .
I personally don't like summer gingham dresses with wooly tights and boots. I'd never mention it in real life though.

My 6yo DD wears culottes to school she loves them! She is the only one at school wearing them but I have had a few mums mention them and ask where I got them from!

Oh dear, dd1 went to school in culottes and dd2 went in a Summer dress with tights and boots - I really covered all the bases there didn't I!!

I'd have no problem with culottes if they're the right colour. I did used to get a bit annoyed with all the hair tinsel, you know, sparkly, spangly stuff, and nail varnish for primary school children would make my hackles rise.

I hate all those "dressy" white blouses with frills and embroidery and bows and gathered waists etc. A school blouse should be plain and , well, uniform

Dd went to school in grey leggings. I was at myself but I could not find her grey skirt.

And I let her go to school in pink tights.

Round here school sweatshirts are to be tucked into your skirt and the sleeves are pushed up way past your elbows.

DM boots have made a comeback. See a lot of them with short school skirts. I wear them with skirts too, though. Just surprised the school uniform police allow it.

A friends daughter who's in 6th form wears black and white Beetlejuice style trousers every day.

NoUseForAName can I ask where you got them from? DD is determined she doesn't want summer dresses, so this may be a good alternative as she just isn't able to do skirts

I got DD some lovely culottes (black) from Asda's school uniform section last year. Hoping to get some more for this year - none in there yet as I checked last weekend. What's wrong with culottes anyway??

In fact, here they are:

direct.asda.com/george/school/trousers-shorts/girls-school-sparkle-charm-culottes-black/G004544594,default,pd.html

I really like culottes for school and wish more of our girls would wear them. It would save a lot of fuss about wanting to put on cycle shorts under dresses and skirts so they can hang upside down (I teach yr 5 and 6 so I understand their desire for modesty).

DS wears shorts, so why not the girls?

Well, I did not see this coming - the thread has become a meeting place for culotte lovers!

They bother me because I went to a school that was very strict on uniform, school issued clothes only, even those that didn't have emblems on.

I kind of understand the allowance to let kids where any black skirt that fits, or any black trousers but now it just feels like anything they can wear on the bottom half that they can get away with.The person I saw wearing them yesterday had her culottes teamed with sort of cowboy boots

School uniform just feels like "Wear something dark coloured on the bottom half and any white shirt on the top half" and you'll be ok.

Why not just do away with school uniform altogether?

I know I'm being all out-of-date about it, I just wondered if anyone would like to join me.

Wooly tights and summer dresses have gone into my Uniform Room 101. So too have Doc Martins even if the posters did not expressly throw them in!

What's next?

Come to my place of work and I shall show you the future

Paper thin leggings with a waste band length shirt. Not accepted by school but accepted by the parents.

The 'uniform police' has no jurisdiction where I am from obviously

Oh bloody Nora - waist not waste.

I am not a teacher, but i went to school once .....rest of the uniform....and TRAINERS. Even if they are black and you can hardly tell....I can tell, its so scruffy!

"Wear something dark coloured on the bottom half and any white shirt on the top half"

That pretty much is my DD's primary school uniform policy.

Black bottoms/white shirt/logoed jumper.

She hates shirts and dresses so wears culottes or smart shorts in the summer

Trainers!

Paper thin leggings! any leggings In!

More please

Ugg boots.

Lace blouses with nothing but a bra underneath.

Good school as well - the uniform is a guideline not a rule.

My eldest's high school is super strict on uniform.

DD got a uniform strike for wearing waterproof walking shoes to school when we had all that flooding, despite having her normal school shoes in her bag to change into when she got there