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School uniform

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PumpkinKlNG · 15/07/2021 12:17

I’m on a group on Facebook, someone posted the Argos / Sainsbury’s cheap school uniform which is basically the jumper shirt and skirt for only £6, a woman in the comments asked if they do a trousers version as her daughter won’t wear skirts (this is for primary school uniform) so I replied and said they do a “boys” version which comes with trousers so said she could just get that one, she replied horrified at the suggestion and said “I’m not sending my daughter to school in boys trousers!” Was it an odd suggestion? She seemed really shocked I would even suggest it!

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Comedycook · 15/07/2021 12:21

My dd wears trousers for school sometimes but I wouldn't put her in boys trousers...nor would she wear them. The style of boys trousers is quite different and quite distinctive

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PumpkinKlNG · 15/07/2021 12:25

Fair enough, I’ve seen it said on here before that people buy their kids “boys” clothes instead of girls so didn’t realise it was such an outrageous suggestion

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Willwebebuyingnumber11 · 15/07/2021 12:29

She’s taken offence to the fact you called them boys clothes / trousers. As if you were insinuating only boys can wear trousers.

I get that you weren’t, but SM is a funny old place now.

GintyMcGinty · 15/07/2021 12:29

Girls trouser are cut differently . They tend not to have pockets. Tend not to have knee protection and often have extra embroidery or gold or silver bits and bobs on them.

My daughter always wears boys trousers as she likes pockets on her trousers.

No idea why girls cant have a pocket.

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PumpkinKlNG · 15/07/2021 12:32

No I wrote boys as “boys” which is what the lady who made the post wrote in her own post, she said they also do a boys version, which is what I commented to the woman, they are also in the “boys” section in Argos, nothing to do with me saying boys, she said she won’t send her daughter to school in boys uniform,

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PumpkinKlNG · 15/07/2021 12:37

Boys, girls don’t think she took offence over me saying “boys”

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mafted · 15/07/2021 12:47

People are weird.
Someone on my FB was looking for a free pushchair, my Mum was getting rid of a blue quinny zapp that also had spare covers in black and red. I posted a photo and the woman replied sorry I should've said it's for a girlConfused

UndertheCedartree · 15/07/2021 12:52

My DD wears trousers but the comfy, stretchy Jersey 'girls' ones which are more like legging as she hates the feel of trousers. So no I wouldn't send her in 'boys' trousers but surely boys should have the comfy option too!

DifficultPifcultLemonDifficult · 15/07/2021 12:56

I send one of my dds in trousers from the boys section.

They have pockets and are much harder wearing than the trousers in the girls section. I also send her in shoes from the boys section too because they last much longer.

She is being weird. They are just clothes.

lovelybitofsquirrell · 15/07/2021 12:57

People can take offence to anything and everything. Your suggestion sounded helpful but you must have hit a nerve.

I personally wouldn't put DD in boys school trousers. They are cut really different. But that's all she really needed to reply to you.

Don't loose any sleep over it OP

DappledThings · 15/07/2021 13:09

I didn't realise they are cut differently. DS sometimes has accidents still and has been sent home in the after school club spares. They have a little heart on the waistband which I assume is a pointless decoration supermarkets consider necessary for girls. Never noticed them being a different shape to his trousers. Is that the case at all ages or only when they get to a certain size?

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PumpkinKlNG · 15/07/2021 13:12

mafted That is really weird, especially when something is free! My son had a purple pram!

I just thought it would help being only £6 for the whole uniform rather than buying them all separate over the sake of being labelled “boys” oh well will be careful about giving suggestions in the future! My boys have never complained about their trousers being uncomfortable so didn’t realise it was that and also I don’t think the cut matters with young child especially when it’s slim fit (I wouldn’t have suggested it for secondary uniform)

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PumpkinKlNG · 15/07/2021 13:13

DappledThings exactly, I don’t think the cut is the issues, this is primary we are talking about....

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PumpkinKlNG · 15/07/2021 13:14

I put my daughter to school in her brothers joggers for school sports day, didn’t occur to me to not use them for her because they would be “cut” different

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TotorosCatBus · 15/07/2021 13:15

Girls trousers are very different. They sometimes have dangly charms, heart shaped buttons etc so you know it's a girl's item.

Your advice isn't outrageous though. Some girls wouldn't know that the trousers were for boys or that their polos might be unisex /boys ones rather than the scallop edged girls ones

Whatwouldscullydo · 15/07/2021 13:20

Well the "boys" version will have the shirts button up a different way than girls will be used to and boys trousers will be cut differently . None if that really matters though on very small children as the cut won't really matter.

Her anger is misplaced. I'd he kicking off the "girls " version didn't have trousers as part of the selection rather than someone who made an obvious suggestion

Carboholic · 15/07/2021 13:22

What age are these for? I can see that a typical 16yo girl would need a different cut of trousers than a typical 16yo boy. But if they are 6 and the girl wants trousers and not eg leggings then the only reason I see for the “girls” version is marketing. (Like pink razors.)

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 15/07/2021 13:27

Girls clothes are smaller than boys clothes that have the same age on them.

My DD wore trousers to school today. Girls ones, but practically identical to boys ones... just a smaller waist for the length (yes my DDs are the typical MN skinny as a rake, tall and eat enough to satisfy an elephant)

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PumpkinKlNG · 15/07/2021 13:28

Primary so 10 or under

I always put my kids in each other’s school shirts I don’t know whose is whose so the button thing has never bothered me, I guess I must just not care in the same way others do

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DappledThings · 15/07/2021 14:34

@PumpkinKlNG

Primary so 10 or under

I always put my kids in each other’s school shirts I don’t know whose is whose so the button thing has never bothered me, I guess I must just not care in the same way others do

I vaguely know that buttons are meant to go one way on male shirts and the other on female but I've no idea which way is which!
StrangeToSee · 15/07/2021 15:12

Girls supermarket school trousers are usually thick stretch jersey, pull up style, with no pockets. Plenty of little boys wear them too as the boys ones are horrible stiff polyester with false creases down the legs, zip, button and pockets. Like suit pants.

Coldilox · 15/07/2021 15:32

Assuming primary, it’s ridiculous that boys and girls trousers are cut differently.

Whatwouldscullydo · 15/07/2021 15:55

Not really. I mean kids from abkut 8 onwards will start to develope different body shapes so it would make sense to allow for that really.

But then even girls trousers seem to have been designed without even being in the vicinity of a girl Confused

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