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!

It states no plain leggings Really?

Primark? Boots, Next and mothercare have sales with cheap clothes.

Annoying but will they be worn again. My niece loves such leggings so they may be worn again.

when i say personalised i mean that they are printed standard things at the end of the week but e child's name is scribble on it. when the nativity plays etc. happen this is where you find out your child's role and costume, so they are identical most of the year but differentiated sometimes.

pink - i don't know any of the boys' mums and there's no WhatsApp group or similar.

i don't know most of the girls' mums either but i know a few. but they don't have boys and they have the same instructions as me. i don't have a problem with the DDs having friends who are boys, but in this instance i can't confirm what the boys' instructions are right now, so i can't answer the question and it's not because I'm being difficult it's just because i don't have the information.

cheap - yes, it says no plain leggings or jeans.

I’m sugggesting to email the school. Something like: ‘just wondering if the boys are being asked to wear bright leggings too and if not could dd have the option of wearing what they’ve been told as we don’t have bright leggings’.

Ooo figrolls I think our DDs go to the same school.

Wording is: any brightly patterned pair of leggings is acceptable (no plain jeans or other plain trousers/leggings). There is no specific theme but they must be bright and patterned.

If i had very bright but not patterned ones, i'd send the DDs in those. But they don't, so i can't.

and yes, i realise i can not give a fuck and just send them in non bright ones or something that doesn't fit the brief. but actually, i was one of those kids who never ever fulfilled the brief and got laughed at, so i will do everything i can to make sure that the DDs don't feel like that. That doesn't mean i have to not feel a little put out by the constant pressures on the wardrobe budget.

Arrrgghhh BALLS. This thread has just reminded me DS needs a wartime evacuee outfit for another school trip I have just forked out for! there was a very ‘helpful’ letter, suggesting ideas of things we just had lying around, like a plain shirt, (dh wears polos for work so nope.) long socks (Son refuses to wear these so we have none), knee length trousers (shorts in other words? we have none, as I buy these in summer and he has outgrown them). Cap? Well, unless they mean a baseball cap, we are out of luck again here!

Oh, and a parcel in brown paper (amazon box anyone? )

Thank god he is year 6, as we are nearly, FINALLY done with all this malarkey, My DD is yr 13...

Some of the stories in here are a nightmare. Dd dressed up as a Victorian for a school trip. Once as a superhero, but most is really easy eg come in pjs or spots/stripes for pudsey. Some kids arrived with white t-shirts with painted dots for example. I have never bought a costume. I put together stuff we have but I do appreciate we have lots of stuff.

Do they have any coloured or patterned pyjama bottoms?