School uniform yucky colours

[wasgoingmadinthecountry]

Please can I ask for your views? At a regular state primary school what are the most horrid colours for school sweatshirts? What are the best? What do you/your children like?

From the normal range of primary school colours - blue, red, navy, yellow, dark green, bright green, purple, light grey.

Thanks - most interested in your LEAST favourite.

Yellow band brown is the worst combination

Yellow is god awful, so is brown!
My DC are at different schools, both wear grey trousers. Oldest has a blue crew neck jumper & white poloshirt which doesn't look bad, youngest is Maroon vneck jumper, white shirt & Maroon the with dark yellow stripes. I didn't think I'd like it but he actually looks very smart.

Primary school changed to maroon sweatshirts in summer paired with red gingham

No shirts or ties in primary school. Stick with polo tops.
I don't mind most colours tbh -just avoid yellow and brown!

My kids' primary school had grey skirts/trousers and royal blue sweatshirts. Really practical and you can get them anywhere.

The ones I don't like are the unusual colours like yellow, orange, purple, brown - things you can't get cheaply and easily.

We have had yellow which was lovely in the summer.
We currently have purple and that too looks good.

I had green when I was younger and it was horrible, green blazer and green skirt personally feel it was the worst colour.

A school by me has brown jumpers with yellow polo shirts, its awful.

Pale brown has gotta be the worst, I used to know a school that used it.

My child cried over the uniform colour when he started school - navy. Children like cheerful colours. If I could choose I’d do red, or green, or bright blue. Not navy at primary, the kids look like they’re dressed for a funeral.

My old school said children could wear any item of (non logo) clothes in school colours of white, grey or red. This worked brilliantly.

Something that is a problem for boys is they have no way to express themselves with their uniform at our school. The girls can choose between a skirt or a dress, long sicks or short, and the dresses are available with a variety of cute metal charms at the neck - butterfly, star etc. Girls can also accessorise their hair in school colours. The boys get zero way to express themselves and it upsets them.

Yellow and grey are the worst in my opinion
I think red is the best by far

Also what is the point of ties? Especially for girls? Ridiculous. Just another item to lose / waste money on.

Are you in an area where most of the kids get their uniform from Asda? Are you going to insist it's a school one with the school badge on?
If they are allowed to buy supermarket versions, I'd stick to traditional colours - yellow CNA be tricky as there's pale yellow and gold yellow, red I'd be mindful of fading.

Ours is yellow sweatshirt and navy jumper. Means o can pick up his uniform anywhere really.

I do think purple looks nice, don't like brown

It’s hard (and expensive) to find gingham summer dresses in the odd colours like yellow abs purple, you have to go to M&S. so please make the summer dresses blue (can usually find royal or navy easily in the supermarkets). And basics like trousers / skirts in black, navy or grey (and don’t be picky on the shade of grey) because that’s what supermarkets stock.

School near us has bright yellow polo shirts and purple jumpers - hideous!

Light colours, especially white, are worst.

Yellow looks horrible after a while.
Also attracts all the bugs in the summer!

I saw a friends DS who started school in September uniform was black trousers, white polo shirt and black sweatshirt with school logo. Thought all black was quite practical.

Mine as a child was red. Flexible to get bits in the supermarket which I know my mum appreciated!
DS's school is pretty flexible but his school colours are burgundy. I find this fine. I buy the school logo branded burgundy polo shirts rather than cheap supermarket ones in white as they always need ironing and get stained!

I saw a uniform with bright yellow shirt and brown skirt. Not nice

Mine was orange and brown. It was hideous.

I looked like a Jaffa cake.

Blue is the best, royal blue, nice and bright. I don’t mind white polo shirts if you have enough to do a whites only wash, otherwise they go grey. Purple is supposed to suit everyone but it looks a bit babyish on 11 year olds, IMO.

I really loathe the colour burgundy. Don't know why.

Yellow is awful, and I’m not keen on red either. Dark blue/navy or dark green would be my preferred options as they hide the inevitable dirt better and they look smart.

Did you go to Malory Towers @GuyFawkesDay ?

If I could choose, I’d tell primary children they can wear any colour of polo shirt (see the lovely colour polos range at m&s), no tie, with black jogger trousers or skirt, and any colour plain hoody. British schools tend to look a century behind the times, no idea why.

And NO SCHOOL LOGO on the clothes it triples the price and reduces quality.

Oo just realised worst colour - bright yellow! A bright yellow genuinely attracts bees and wasps.

I’d imagine white is easiest to wash / get stains out with bleach.

We had a choice of dark green or dark red polos and a grey jumper. I liked that we could choose!

I wouldn’t like yellow, stains too easily and looks scruffy and faded quite quickly.

Which colours are cheapest? Which are most readily available?

@CreamRose

I could be wrong but I’m sure it’s red and green! Wasn’t that why Freddie Krueger wore a red and green jumper!

It could be either or both 🤷‍♀️

We just get taught what our elders told us!

I've seen a few posters say they like the joggers/sweatshirt combo with black trainers. Is that generally popular? As in no need to change for PE etc??

Thanks for all this by the way - hugely helpful!