To unlock the pocket from my son's school blazer...

[MuckyMare]

School blazers are £35 each. I have 2 son's.
Money is so tight right now.

I've just seen that Asda do navy blazers.

I'm thinking of in picking the pockets from their old blazers and sewing them onto asda ones

Total cost £20 for 2 rather than £70

Do you think the school will object?

I'm a seamstress and have done similar for clients.

Don't change the pocket though. Remove the old pocket then zigzag a tight satin stitch in a badge shape around the logo. Then cut round the stitches and sew around again to secure stray thread.

Then sew that to the new blazer as a badge. It looks better.

- so typing a kind post is harder than typing a nasty one, if one is posting on one’s phone? OK, then.

I'm so gutted

I just went to the car boot and there were 2 blazers for my son's school.

Absolutely immaculate.

In the right sizes for September. 32 and 34

And I just got home and they are girls blazers

I could cry. I was so happy

They have the bust seams

Oh OP that sucks. Could you find anyone who might be prepared to do a swap?

Just sell them on - find girls Mums and offer them for a good price and put towards the boys ones.

I find it amusing its all about setting them up for the work environment etc - but who the heck wears suits these days bar men over 45 or interviews

I don't really know anyone from school.

They just go themselves so you don't really get a chance to meet parents.

I was on such a high and when I got home I read the name in the label and it was a girls name and them I realised they do boy/girl versions :(

Try selling on local Facebook page?

I think I will sell them

How much would you ask? They are £36 originally and in great condition. They look new

Probably cause they are girls. I shouldn't have expected boys blazers to be so well kept

I’m a secondary school teacher and as long as the colour/style is a good match I can’t imagine I’d notice, especially if the blazer’s owner wasn’t a serial untucked-shirt/lost-tie/wrong-shoes offender.

Also if I did notice, I’d probably be impressed with mum’s ingenuity and turn a blind eye. I tend to think that what’s going into students’ heads during the school day is vastly more important than what’s on their bodies.

How disappointing. How much did you pay for them? I hope you at least recoup that money.

They were only 20p each!

That's why I'm gutted. Would have been bargain of the century

Is there a Facebook page to ask? I have blazers at home that are surplus but wouldn't know how to get them to people that need them at our school.

Oh what a shame. 20p fingers crossed that you can sell them for more to contribute to other ones.

The price of school uniforms is a massive piss take. Someone is making a shitload of money from parents, many who already struggle enough financially as it is! hmm

Try growing up in the US where high school was a competition to see how many pairs of designer jeans one owned!
There was a girl in my class who had a different pair for every day of the month.
We get off lightly in the UK!

I've done it. But just cut around the badge and turned the edges under and sewed it on. It's impossible to tell.

Urgh £15 each? You can lower if they don't sell...

The kids looked - frankly - like paupers.
Don't be ridiculous, nobody would even notice except a particularly bitchy teacher

I did the same with my DD's school skirt when she grew out of it, took the school logo badge off the waist and sewed it into an Asda special. The school uniform shops are such a rip off.

I did this. If you are careful it works well. I used an M&S blazer. The approved ones were a shocking price.

I’m tempted to do this, I managed to get a blazer for 8 pounds on amazon add on deal. My sons school blazer is faded! Argh! The new blazer is maroon, the old blazer is a faded dark red! Argh!!

If you can get the navy to match - I'd do the pocket thing (although look locally as there might well be a competitor schoolwear company doing the logo thing - there's been outrage around here as we had one doing that and the local twatty academy chain have kicked off no end because they want their backhanders from their uniform deal basically - but action other than huffing and puffing has come of it - and this school is usually prime Daily-Mail sad face territory for turning kids away in September for a shoe logo of 1 square-mm).

Sell the girls' blazers on - if it's like around here they'll be snapped up in a nanosecond - anything from our local secondary goes at a ridiculous rate on the local FB groups (cos the uniform is fucking extortionate, all logos worked in everywhere to try to make sure their uniform profiteering and attempts at social exclusion carry on unabated).

And when I was at school you could tell who'd got the school blazer cheap version or the expensive version (slightly different shades of navy), and we had at least one kid who had a hand knitted version of the school jumper (one with about 5 different colour bands along the ribbing) and all sorts... and no one said anything unkind toward them at all they were all too busy bullying me

Still have no bloody idea how my mum managed to get 5 years out of my school blazer - fuck knows how stupidly large she bought it but it just about eeked it out my entire secondary school career!

Here's the DfE guidance in school uniform
It clearly states that schools MUST take into account cost when determining school uniform, and that uniform must be available from supermarkets to keep costs down.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/514978/School_Uniform_Guidance.pdf
The school cannot lawfully insist on a specific supplier or brand.

Another thing to do is search for and if you can't find one set up a parents page on FB to buy and sell uniform.

You could easily sell those on facebook for at £5 if not £10. They'd still be an absolute steal for whoever bought them and it'd go towards your boys' blazers