Labelling uniform for high school - quick poll on how to do it

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DC is off to Big School in September and I've just spent a small fortune kitting him out. It all needs labelling. DH insists that the name labels that have seen us all the way through primary school will cause social death at high school, and we should just biro his name into everything.

YABU - DH is right and we risk DC becoming a laughing stock if he's spotted with a name label

YANBU - we should get the labels and have done with it

Sharpie on the label

I used existing labels i had for dd/ds and then in subsequent years I used a laundry marker on the care label

As above, Sharpie the label.

I still sewed labels into my boys’ clothes at secondary school and they had plenty of friends and never complained that anyone said anything about it. Never lost a single item of clothing in 13 years. It may depend on what kind of school the child attends though.

Sharpie on label here too

Byro is a pain, buying and selling second-hand uniform means jumpers have names that are no longer relevant.

Life is too short, I just stick new labels, takes seconds.

Cash labels on clothes. Never any problem.

Same but I sharpie the fabric so the inside collar of the pe shirt. The badge on the inside of the blazer. DS was awful for losing stuff. Now that I sharpie the fabric very little lost/?taken…

We use nametags sticky labels but we got plain ones with no characters or childish font.

Sharpie on the label.

The labels in my dc’s secondary uniform are black.

I folded the sew in tapes so they were just the surname and sewed them in non-obvious places like on the side seam.

Cash's sew in labels. Lasted mine from playgroup to Year 13. Nobody cares what's in other people's clothes.

I sewed labels in as lots of things like jumpers and PE kit were handed down from my eldest to my youngest so I didn't Sharpie the label. Plus it depends how common the surname is.

I used a sewing machine with a zig zag stitch and the labels were precut and I bought different colours for both children meaning it was easy to see which jumper or trousers belonged to which child.

Secondary uniform costs a bomb, label it, don't lose it. Get your child to remove PE kit items and immediately put it back into their bag, not on the bench beside them. Too easy for another child to pick them up.

Sharpie on the label

If you can be bothered I don't think there's a problem with sewing name labels on. All mine have had them (running out of steam a bit now with third child in year 10). Certainly a lot better than losing stuff.

Mixed results so far! The high school transition is such a minefield!

I love Stickets - they do not come off amd can get mature looking ones

We've been using the same (and the iron-on ones which are a bugger to shift if you need to take them off again) and was planning on doing the same until DH's well-meaning intervention

The poll is 50:50 atm so at this rate I'll be ordering a batch of plain labels (with no dinosaurs or cars this time ) and a sharpie

I've had mixed results with the supposedly invincible iron-on labels and stick-on labels so if there's a white label, I now use a laundry pen. We have a thriving uniform bank in our town and I'd say 60% of the uniform there is labelled this way, and it doesn't seem to stop anyone from buying it! Then you can either cross it out or stick a label over it.

I’ve used the my name tag stickers for my teens - they chose new designs for secondary, think light blue background, headphones as the icon. My kids are fine with them and it’s never occurred to me it wasn’t the norm. Also great for calculator, water bottle etc / though hasn’t stopped dd losing her water bottle several times and never finding it!

Thinking of doing both - a label in a reasonably obvious place to prevent accidental switches during PE changing and the sharpie approach to guard against targetting nabbing and subsequent label removal #overthinking

Never bought labels, always sharpie on the clothing label.
of course now some of the labels are BLACK which poses an interesting challenge 😂
and I didn’t not bother buying labels because of social embarrassment, just because with 3dc I was quite disorganised and so just scribbled on their neck labels as we were walking out the door until everything was named 🤪

I use Stikins labels as they are brilliant and don’t come off in the wash. It’s just first name and surname in black on white background. Stick them in the clothes label so they can’t be seen unless looking for them. Can’t be faffed writing on each item of clothing. Plus the stickers work in shoes and on bags, water bottles etc. (I don’t work for them btw! Just been using them for years).

Can they be peeled off if someone deliberately nicks something?