School dress ruined at school!

[DianaMitford]

As the title says. New dress, bought at the beginning of the summer term. 9yo DD, doing art today and black ink has soaked through her apron onto her dress. I washed it immediately she came home with Vanish and it's faded but it's ruined. I mean, she can still wear it but it's got black ink all down the front

My dilemma is that a new dress is £40 and there are no secondhand ones. Do I say anything to the school?? If so, what?!

£40 for a school dress!?!

How is a school dress £40

Can't you buy one of the 2 for £7 ones from Tesco?

Was the apron school issue? If so I would point out that they don't do a great job. No point the school spending money on shit aprons that don't protect their clothes.

Terms nearly over I would just keep using it. She was wearing an apron so it was an accident, she should have been protected.

I had similar with black paint when dd1 was in year 3. I took the dress in the next day and complained. I've no idea what the ta washed it in, but it all came out!

sounds like the best place for a school dress

My DDs school dress was £35 and that was twenty five years ago. I suspect it is a private school and you have to wear the one specified.

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(My thanks to a poster on another school thread who assisted me in making this list as helpful as possible.)

Ha ha Casual. Are you a teacher?

I'm assuming it's a private school, in which case YANBU because if they insist on £40 dresses, they should make sure they keep them clean.

If it's a state school, YABU for buying a £40 dress when there's perfectly good ones for less than a fiver in every supermarket.

Please just send her to shool in a clean (albeit) stained dress. Otherwise it sends out entirely the wrong message to a young girl that she ought to be spotless. Whereas young people go to school to learn and experiment and yes come home less than pristine!

Iv had two polo shirts destroyed in last two weeks with blue paint and then back paint. Irritating but that's life at school

That's life. It's school.

Frankly I'm more concerned that you initially spent £40 on a school dress.

This close to the end of term I'd be reluctAnt to buy a new one. Depends how bad the stain is and how much trouble she would get into for having a stained dress.

Summer dresses are £40 at my DDs school too, and have no give so the button holes tend to rip. So I currently send her in the boys uniform.

Keep using the dress. There's not enough time left in the term to bother changing it.

My DC's shirts are stained with white board marker. I still send them in them, they are always clean and it is clearly a stain. if it were photo day or a trip I'd be sending them in sparkly new, but day to day I'd rather they relaxed and didn't worry about keeping clean!

£40?!
£3 in the Sainsburys sale.

I send DD is with stained uniform. With about 5 weeks left for her at school, I havent got anything new. Plus she grows like a weed so no point buying anything until September.

The dresses are £45 at one of my kids schools as well and you are not allowed to get them from anywhere else

DD's dresses are always stained by the tool of satan that is the mud kitchen.
I don't know what they have in it I have no problems getting mud out of sports kits including cricket whites

What would you like the school to do?

I think you must live with the stain or buy a new dress.

£40 dress here too . Fortunately lots of hand me downs from school office.

Tackle it from the apron point of view.

DD did something similar, after 2 or 3 washes it did fade a lot more to just a couple of areas. I made her still wear it, and just hoped her other one (r was it two?) would stay nice enough for events when she needed to be more smart.

Id keep sending her in it until she has outgrown it.

My 2 go in clean but sometimes stained and occasionally with small holes (scissor cuts!), I'm not replacing school clothes until they're outgrown. They always look tidy for photo day and have a school tshirt for field trips anyway.