To wonder why teenagers won't wear coats

[littlefifi]

Minus figures this week and yet my 12 year old ds refuses to wear a coat or jumper because apparently other kids pick on kids who wear them? Is this a thing? Is being cold a cause for bullying now? He only started high school in September so I'm still learning the rules.

He wears a blazer but only a thin cotton shirt goes underneath. In full embarrassing mum fashion I can't stand to think of him walking to school in only that and being cold but I'm obviously not going to insist either, it's up to him.

Who would have thought coats were for the weak?

It's been going on forever.
I remember my grandmother having a go at my Auntie (born in the 50's) as she refused her coat going to school, she would come home looking like a drowned rat according to my gran.
Me being very unhardy always wore my anorak.

Mine thought the secondary kids were stupid for not wearing coats - until she got there. The main problem seemed to be that they had to be stuffed into the bottom of their bag or their locker, and it was too much effort to retrieve them at the end of the day. A pacamac seemed to suffice for wet days. It wasn't peer pressure in her case - more "can't be bothered" and enviable ability not to get cold.

However, at 17, she has just said she would like a coat.

I played cello in school orchestra and so always had to wear my blazer, it once got juice spilt on it and my mum put it into the dry cleaners so I wore an anorak to school for 2 days. On the second day the head of music passed me in the stairwell and shouted at me for not wearing my proper school uniform (which I was just not the blazer), I couldn't get a word in to explain and he wouldn't have cared anyway, bloody tyrant that he was.

That was only if you were in the orchestra though everyone else wore those big green and purple anoraks everyone had in the 90s like this ⬇

It's interesting because when I was at school 35 years ago, everyone got told off for wearing coats in school. Our coats were the only bit of individuality we had. The only non uniform thing we were allowed to wear, so we wore them at every opportunity!

I’d say at my DC’s secondary it’s about 75% at least wearing coats. Mostly North Face puffers.
At the school the next town over almost nobody wears them at all.

Coat school majority live close by and walk to school, non-coat school has wider catchment and lots come by public transport, maybe that’s one of the differences.

I went to school in the late 60's/early 70's and wearing coats was controversial then! Anything that looks like your mum has made you wear it (hat, scarf, gloves) so basically anything warm and sensible was a no no.

After reading this thread I'm starting to think I know why I was bullied so much. I always wore a cute navy duffle coat to school (Early 00's).

Woops

They were all wearing coats today.

Miraculously, some were even wearing tights.

It's the end times.