AIBU to be annoyed that school want us to buy even more clothes...

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The DD school wants us to send the kids in dressed in bright coloured or patterned leggings for a cheering up dreary January day.

AIBU to resent having to buy new clothes every time the school has a whim for a way of dressing differently? - i don't have anything except dreary black and grey leggings for them. Every time there is a new idea for a dressing up day of some kind i have to buy something new. Last year they needed bright shorts and a cheery top for a summer's beach day theme. Neither of them had bright shorts - lots of dresses but no shorts (their choice, not mine) so i had to buy some.

Grrrr............

They have uniforms for a reason - let them wear them rather than me having to buy extra clothes all the time!

You're not obliged to do dress-up. Neither are you obliged to follow the dress-up rules precisely. If they say 'bright shorts and t-shirt for a bright summer day' then I see nothing wrong in sending the child in in a bright summer frock, or even a pastel summer frock.

I'm certainly not going to buy nasty synthetic Christmas jumpers for one day's wear at school! If my dc want to join in with Christmas Jumper Day, I tack some tinsel or baubles or whatnot onto the top of their choice.

YABU, BTW!

Argh! YANBU, of course!

Sew ribbons, patches, or stick stickers on them

Dd school has decided they can no longer wear socks!! (girls only) its tights from next week. After buying 10 pairs of black in September I am not amused!!

Why not buy a pack of spotty coloured stickers or similar and stick them on the grey leggings?

YANBU but I work in a school and quite frankly what ever 'theme' there is the kids rightly turn up in the closest thing they have to the spec.

So grey leggings it is with the bright shorts from summer over the top.

Send them in a brightly coloured jumper or even cheerful socks.

Are you saying your children have no bright clothing?

Our school can be a little like this but there isn't any obligation to partake & certainly no expectation of new clothes being worn. I operate in a if we have something suitable already then great, if not no worries way of thinking (as do a lot of parents at our school).

I'd just use what you have, even if it doesn't quite fit the brief (or even if it's vaguely connected)

We tend to borrow/lend clothes on dressing up days. (We have a FB book for the year snd there's often a plea for borrowing stripy t-shirts or whatever the theme is)

I really wouldn't spend much on a dressing up day and at primary you can get away with low cost options like letting your child go to school covered in Emoji stickers or with tinsel in their hair.

I never buy anything for school dressing up. they go in what they have got.

I treat "dress up" days as an extra non-uniform. If we have what is been asked for then great they can wear it,....if not then n/m. Surely them wearing any of their home clothes will cheer them up even if it is grey or black.

I'd have sent my dd in wearing a dress if thats all she had for beach day, theyre beachy enough for me.

Are you saying your children have no bright clothing?

She just said leggings, but apologies for the interruption if you wanted to imply neglect by dreary clothing.

Borrow something?

Who said anything about neglect?

Like a pp has said, just use their black leggings and put some colourful stickers all over them.

If not, just don't bother. Send them in a bright top instead. They are hardly going to get in trouble over it.

We never take part in these things now. Ds is autistic and hates it so no matter what the theme or reason he goes in uniform!

I am pretty pleased to given they have Stone Age day next month.

Figrollsnotfatrolls
Dd school has decided they can no longer wear socks!! (girls only) its tights from next week. After buying 10 pairs of black in September I am not amused!!

Have they said why? That's a quite bizarre rule.

My dd school decided they weren't going to have any uniform at all and
it costs me a bloody fortune.
Ironic really, as the ethos is not about money, even though private.
Imagine children from sink estate to Russian Oligarch.
I think any school asking for something for one day that needn't cost you anything is pretty tame in comparison.

Stick some bright stickers on on sew something onto some old clothes.
You could even dye something for a couple of quid

Just don't do it...my DD's school have various coloured dressing up days every year. We just send her in usual mufti (with the £2) and no-one has ever said anything.

Charity shop?

Who said anything about neglect?

Nobody, that’s what ‘imply’ means.

I don’t buy things for themed days. Dd makes do with what she has. They did superhero day one year and I sewed a pillow case on a mini mouse costume. I also sewed a picture of mini mouse on the pillow case. Super mini mouse. Job done.

Why can’t your kids wear the brightly coloured stuff from the beach theme on top of leggings?

I know what 'imply' means thank you.

I will suggest then that your inference is incorrect.

No friends or relatives to borrow off?
No bright colours at all? Not even pink?

Careful Silverthorn

You don't want to imply neglect...