Kids wanting to wear a batman tshirt because all their friends have one don't show their creativity, they just copy others. Not a big deal, but nothing about autonomy!
It's all about autonomy. We have very different views on how children make decisions. Yes they are very influenced by peers at that age, but that doesn't mean all their decisions are copying others nor that they shouldn't be allowed to make their own decisions.
In any case you're spectacularly missing my point. I'm not saying children are less creative if they're in uniform.
I'm saying the appprocah to uniform gives clues as to the attitudes of the adults running the place. I don't ant my child to be somewhere rigid and rules obsessed. A place with rigid, rules obsessed management is very unlikely to be no-uniform. (Not impossible, of course, I'm talking probablilties).
A nursery run by people who value creativity and autonomy and have an ethos more in line with my own is more likely to be a non-uniform place.
Your posts keep proving my point. You don't think children's autonomy is important - or at least you don't recognise enabling them to have contol over things like what clothes they wear as them exercising autonomy. And at the same time, you're not bothered about whether they wear uniform or not.
I DO think its important that children are enabled to make their own decisions about stuff that affects them and at the same time I don't like uniform in nursery.
So we're both acting in a way that fits my idea that people who don't like uniform are likely to place a higher value on autonomy and creativity and less value on children conforming rules compared to those who like unifrom - or who don't care one way or the other.