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 and Green would be my least favourite

Favourites purple, red, dark green
Just okay: blue, grey
Least favourites yellow, brown, black,

@Blockedoff

I think it's always best to choose a colour uniform you like and send your children there!

I mean what could go wrong!

White shirts are brilliant. You can bleach them!

Oh and hate white shirts/polos, much prefer those in a colour even yellow

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

Yes!!!!!!!!

This is 100000% the best idea and I wish more schools would do this. I bet they look fantastic in the playground and you could switch it up every year to stop the laundry being so utterly fucking tedious.

My girls are purple and black. I like it as the purple washes really well and you can throw it in with the black stuff. I also put them in grey sometimes because I'm a rebel and it looks really nice. My oldest wears a purple polo with black leggings most days and the youngest is a fan of black polo + black joggers with a purple cardi.

I hate navy (navy and black really looks shit together imo and even if you can find navy bottoms most people still have black shoes).

Also hate the brown and yellow combination. Utterly depressing and screams 1970s to me.

My school uniform was brown. I haven't worn brown since leaving - over 30 years ago!

Red. It apparently makes the kids a bit hyper. It also fades badly in the wash so you end up with a pinky sweatshirt by the end of the year.
DKids now go to a school with a navy uniform. That's great - doesn't show dirt, doesn't really fade.

Dislike green (girls in green tights!) and red (it can be very unflattering for some colourings). Blue (of any shade) is nice however it’s difficult to manage the shade if your uniform is generic and also see below...
Wouldn’t be keen on kids wearing PE kit for school (not needing to get changed) and I think getting changed is part of PSHE for younger years but important for all years.
Personally I’d choose a colour that wasn’t traditionally girl or boy (contradicting with my previous blue statement!).
From a parent perspective - handy to offer logo uniform OR logo patches that can be sewn on to generic uniform.

If I had to choose I think I’d choose white pol, navy skirt/dress/trousers/shorts and cardigan/jumper. Generic navy is easier to buy (eg jogging bottoms for PE) than any other colour I think

My DC primary school was navy sweatshirts with red polo shirts with grey trousers, skirts or pinafores
Grey shorts for summer or navy/white red/white check dresses
All very practical dirt and wash wise and available in most supermarkets

Surprised at all the yellow hating. My son has yellow polos with royal blue sweatshirts. I love the yellow.

I like white polos too because they are the cheapest and the only ones that come in bulk packs so easy to replace. Also you can bleach them.

I don't have a colour preference except I hate purple anything.

I actually don't like polos and sweatshirts in general. I find polos rough to touch and means a vest is always needed, and the sweatshirts I always struggle to get over my son's ginormous head.

My daughter's school had shirts and vneck acrylic jumpers and the acrylic jumpers are much easier to wash (come out the machine dry, don't bobble or stain). I prefer this combination.

Or if they could have the full tracksuit combination with a t-shirt instead of polo and a zipped hoodie that would be great and the perfect uniform. Cheap and comfortable. I hate pleats and formal trousers on little kids.

My cousins child’s school. Brown trousers/skirt, brown jumper/sweatshirt, yellow shirt, brown and gold striped tie and brown blazer with gold and brown piping. It’s vile!

The trousers/skirt and blazer are a heavy wool and only available from a shop 15 miles from them BC and cost £30. Her son took the knee out if his trousers a week before the end of term for summer. She had to tell them he’d wear smart non uniform trousers as she wasn’t buying a pair for a week that he’d grow out of.

In fact if I was a head I would say any colour plain tracksuit and any colour polo with white or black trainers. No logos, from PE uniform section. Or I'd give a choice of three colours.

@wasgoingmadinthecountry

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!

Personally I like proper trousers etc (with a sweatshirt/polo shirt). Rightly or wrongly, joggers to me are sitting around on a Sunday (or PE) wear. Plus black fades fast.

I'm not keen on red

A local primary school to us has bottle green and with grey skirts/trousers it always looks so smart

I like navy too and prefer uniforms where the girls can wear navy pinafores or skirts over grey, for that reason sky blue and navy I really like and it's easy to shop for if you can buy polos from supermarkets and high street shops. Some of these strange colour combos don't appear in more affordable places and I feel sorry for the kids that can't afford the proper uniforms

DD’s school is a lovely shade of purple with green braiding on the blazer.
She wears purple knee high socks, black or grey skirt, white blouse, purple cardigan, purple tie and blazer. Gingham dress, white cardigan in the summer. Any colour of winter coat allowed.

There's a school near me where they wear yellow shirts and brown trousers/skirts the uniform is horrible!

My DD's first primary school had purple and yellow. Hated it because you couldn't buy it anywhere and it's an awful combination of colours in my opinion. My favourite is navy and white.

Some have said it's hard to get purple uniform cheaply, I have got my daughter dresses from asda, Tesco and Sainsburys, as well as M&S. Maybe our local supermarkets stock the colours of the local schools!

We have the choice for them to wear white or purple polos.

I agree yellow sweatshirts always look a bit grubby - but the summer dresses are sweet!

I like our uniform. It’s black or grey trousers with white polo shirts and a burgundy sweatshirt. Branding is not required but is available. I don’t hate the white polos -our school isn’t precious (or maybe it’s just me ) so if they get stained it’s fine. Nursery children wear joggers but otherwise the same, although I don’t think it’s required. School provides free of charge to all children pe kit which they wear all day - they introduced this a couple of years before Covid but in general I think it’s great. We are an inner city school though, so limited opportunity to get really muddy! It’s a zipped jacket and pants that aren’t jogger fabric, more like a shell suit but not - I know that makes no sense but I can’t describe it! It doesn’t ‘whisk’ . They have a branded white t-shirt underneath, but a white one is fine. They’re allowed to wear any dark shorts if it ever gets hot enough!

I had blue as a child and liked it, although I always covered the pink summer dresses another local school had! I prefer blue nowadays and dislike green but only really because I associate it with secondary schools.

Yellow is the worst; flatters few and attracts bugs in the warm months.

Ours is blue but I really hate it for no reason other than I hate the colour blue; would have preferred green or red

Both my kids’ schools have blue, which I guess is pretty much the classic of classic school uniform colours.

My primary was red and grey, and the green, red and grey at secondary.

I guess blue, red and green are most common.

I don’t like yellow, brown or purple, and have never seen a school choose orange or pink or anything more unusual that than.

But apparently as you get older you can get irritated by the colour yellow- definitely something that’s happened to me - so I guess it might not be irritating to children’s eyes.

My sons prospective primary school uniform is an awful shade of maroon. Quite depressed at the thought of seeing him in a maroon coloured jumper every day for 7 years.

Oh - it took me years to be able to even consider wearing anything green at all after wearing it at school!