To ask for teenage pencil case advice?

[SleepyMcEdie]

I know this sort of thing is a big deal to teenager so need some help!

What sort of pencil case is your 13 year old girl having for September? Been tasked with buying my nieces who says she really doesn’t mind, but I know once term starts she will see others with trendy ones!

I have a 13 yo boy who is still happy with smiggle (but its mainly black)

and he's had it a couple of years. So actually I'm not so sure he'd buy it now.

Just asked and he said Hype

Thank you, I’ve just been looking at a few Hype ones.

Ooh watching with interest as I’ve just spent the afternoon trawling the shops for a pencil case for DS who is going up to secondary school. None were quite right and he doesn’t know what he is really looking for 🙄

My 12 year old dd has grown out of all the cute/fluffy types of pencil cases and bags. She tends to like plain/black ones with splashes of colour/geometric designs. Nothing that hugely stands out! The circular shaped ones seem to fit more in.

Try www.typo.co.uk

I was going to say Hype, DS1 has one.

I’m a secondary school teacher. She doesn’t mind cuz she’ll hide it if it’s wrong

Seriously though, it’s lovely that you care. Hype is a great shout.

Www.typo.com. Sorry.

14 year old sister has gone for this Harry Potter one and her friend went with this glittery one

9 year old who thinks she is 13 has gone with a translucent neon pink one and my 14 year old DS has gone for a plain see through one, like you use in exams.

These Eastpak ones are good and fit a lot in (probably cheaper on Amazon).

www.eastpak.com/uk-en/catalogsearch/result/?q=Oval

13 plain see through cubed case so largish pink zip. She and her friend also gave me directions to make them fabric ones - so chose materials - plain on outside zingy inside

Smiggle 😩

I saw some very cool pencil cases made of silicon in B and M ….

Hype is still cool amongst the younger teens- or something from Paperchase. They've loads of stuff that would appeal to your nieces.

DD13 got hers from Neon Sheep, they only have a few stores though, we have also got nice ones in Paperchase.
Sainsbury's had some really nice marble effect ones that she liked too.

My similar aged cousin is obsessed with all things paperchase.

Mine has her old one from last year. Slightly grungy navy rose print one.

I’d avoid Smiggle for a kid of that age- unless the kid themselves has asked for it. It’s a middle-school thing IME.

I don’t have any suggestions but went into a Smiggle shop today for the first time (‘cos I’m old....) and practically had to be stretchered out due to the colours and the cost of the merchandise. Ye gads, that shop is bright!

This is the one I got for dd. Comes in a variety of colours

I’m a secondary teacher. I’d say in my school it’s almost irrelevant because by the end of the first week there will just be a motley collection in their blazer pocket anyway

Pottering beat me to it, was just coming in here to say blazer pocket too! And once, I found almost the entire stationery section of WHSmith in the lining of the blazer. There was a hole and DS explanation was that it all just 'sort of fell through'

Did is just going into secondary and most secondaries around here only allow see-through pencil cases. Saves the grief of getting it wrong!