to think DD can just put up with paint stained school dresses?

[Adikia]

I put her dress on her this morning to discover there's a paint stain on it, her other dress has been stained for weeks and no amount of stain remover is working, she has a painting apron at school but no one ever checks she's put it on.

The second hand shop hasn't got anything that will fit DD and a new dress is £40 (not an easy to get style) she breaks up the beginning of next week and has to go back in winter uniform anyway, so she will probably grow out of it after only wearing it a week. Money is tight but as usual Grandma's got my birthday wrong and sent me a card with money in (mines the end of July, my brothers was last week, she always gets us the wrong way round) So I could buy a new dress but I was saving it to take DD and DS out.

So AIBU to think that she can just wear the stained dresses til the end of term? or are people going to judge?

Tip about the paint though, if its the same type as we use at work it has to be soaked over night in cold water then washed as usual. It does say that on the bottle, we only found out after so many parents complained about it not coming out.

My DD has been moaning about her polo shirts being stained, I've bleached them but I'm not buying her new ones as she has a new uniform when she goes back in september.

Totally fine, all DDs dresses ended up with white board pen streaks.

One had two extra side seams. One due to ripping it top to bottom jumping out a tree. The other to return the skirt to symetrical.

These days DD1's jumpers are covered in acrylic paint.

No one cares.

My god yanbu.
Use the bday money on something you can all enjoy!!

And that isn't a dress!!!

Can you get a marker pen or even a bit of paint that is fairly close to the dress colour? Run it over the stains and they will be much less obvious :)

kimlo, thanks, I'll try that. It looks like normal poster paint but i reckon they bought the extra stainy version.

I wouldn't bat an eyelid. Send her in with stains. Its not like her dress isn't clean. Like PP, most of the kids are looking a bit worse for wear at this time of year. Its expected I think.

Bit at £40 for a school dress?? I would expect it to be stain-repellent and everything else proof for that crazy price!

£40 for a dress for a five year olds. The school must assume that the parents have a money tree in their back garden. I assume it must be a private school.

A while back Marks and Spencer were doing an offer of 2 dresses for £10. We bought two for dd's in nusery. The only problem with them is that they are starting to get a bit small. We are holding off buying new dresses and hoping that the dress still covers her arse by the end of term.

I feel that schools should explain to parents how to get paint out of dresses. The dresses need to be sponged with cold water. If you just bung the dress in a 40 degrees wash then it will set the paint.

£40!? For a school dress!?

How? Why?

I'd have a word with the school if the staff aren't making sure kids have their aprons on. What else might they be being lax about?

And YANBU. £40!! I have to take a deep breath before spending that on a dress for myself, and at thirty-mumble I think I've stopped growing.

Chocolate has it.

I thought the whole point of school uniform was so their regular clothes aren't ruined.
I keep one dress for "best" and the rest are a sight to behold!

My DS has indelible whiteboard pen on every single one of his school tops. Just the way it is - I'm not buying him new ones if they use things that won't wash out

yanbu. DD is in stained polo shirts. One has a pretty blue and yellow smudge all the way down it.

Yanbu the madthings school shirts are a right state, my mil had s fit last week when she visited as they are stained or grey looking, I just say tough it's nearly the end of term I am not buying new. I just glued ds2'sshoes back together ad well!

My DS has gone to school in some decidedly grey looking white polo shirts of late. Ho hum! It is the end of the year!

I tried to bleach ds's polo shirt- it did come up nice and white but it also took the colour out of the logo and turned it from blue to yellow. Trouble is, all his friends are begging their mums to do it too!

It's fine. No teacher will judge ime, regardless if school type - again ime.

Lots of children at my school are in stained or marked uniform especially this time of year. Lots of it is a tad short too.

Was always same when dd was at primary. Blazers were the worst - huge at start, tiny by end.

Schools will totally used to uniforms looking worse for wear, even totally grubby, during the last few weeks of the school year. And if they don't like uniform with paint on it, then the teachers should supervise the use of paint aprons better, or they should ensure they're using stuff that doesn't stain.

ReallyTired, yes it is a private school.

Fideliney, no idea why, the normal gingham dresses look better imo and at £4 from Asda the kids wouldn't have to wear them til they disintegrate so they'd look smarter.

At primary most children grow out of their uniform before it disintegrates. It would break my heart to pay £40 for one item only for my child to grow out of it.

The first child usually grows out of it before it disintegrates, the 3rd or 4th once it's been handed down however isn't so lucky

Would not even occur to me to buy new. £40 is ridiculous. Ours 2 for £8

So, great if you have four girls, then, but not so great if you have just one. Tbh, I would expect a school dress that's ten times the price of the cheapest alternative to last at least four girls and still come back for more!