Schoolblazer uniform costs

[Pinkfranny]

I can not believe how much schoolblazer keeps increasing the cost of our school’s uniform. I am in discussion with our school about it but I could do with some evidence of other school’s costs that are also obliged to use schoolblazer.

if you have to buy your child’s blazer from www.schoolblazer.com please could you tell me the current price? (You don’t need to name the school)

Ours is now £94 🙈

TIA x

Our games kit was indestructible and fine to pass on after being bought second hand and worn for 2 to 3 years though.

Our secondary switched from sweatshirts to blazers. The blazers were not that expensive (now 33.50), and would wash/drip-dry overnight. When it was sweatshirts, we had two, but one was fine with the blazers, and they probably fit for longer, too, so the overall cost is lower.

As for practicality, my daughter thought she was going to hate the blazers, but discovered how useful the pockets were.

@lanthanum I agree about the blazers. The cost was low for the time worn, £76 (current price) for two blazers (some boys might need three) over five years is only £15 a year. DS used his blazer pockets as pencil case and lunch box.

Apologies should have mentioned it is a private school. In two years it’s gone from £77 to £94 and the quality of them really isn’t great 🙁

Unfortunately you can’t get the badges on their own so a DIY job isn’t a possibility.

We have a parents FB group for 2nd hand selling and swaps.

The mark up must be huge and then there’s the commission the school get as well of course.

DD, state seconday, had a blazer for 3 years. (Y7-9) which was £80 5 years ago.

Navy blue with very distinctive piping so no chance of just buying one and sewing on a badge, the thing was one of a kind and for everyone outside the normal size norms, it had to be tailor made.

Absolutely ridiculous in my opinion. After the 3 years they were normally so worn out, it was hard to get a second hand one.

We were lucky, the grandparents paid for the whole set up which up us back by £300 incl. PE kit.

Ours isn’t private.

For my son, new blazer did years 7-10, new one for year 11 sold on for £25
DD1 was given a blazer for free, lasted years 7-10, then another free second hand one (pretty poor condition) for year 11

DD2 got a new one, she’s year 7

I think the skirt is worse at £47.50, but with DD1 I bought one skirt in year 7, then a secondhand one for £10. Unfortunately DD2 is a different size, she got one new one and I am looking for a second hand one for DD2.

Just checked £94. Its outrageous.

(not schoolblazer) DD's is £28 (smaller sizes) or £32 (bigger sizes). She did make one blazer last 5 years :)

I was about to say you should lobby the school to change suppliers, but they may be less amenable if they are a private school. I guess this is just another thing you have to budget for in the overall cost?

just looked up our school and it's £28.00-35.99 plus £8 for badges

Private school here.

I get second hand as much as possible. I think the blazer was £35 so really shocked by some of these prices.

Recently they announced some changes to the uniform and parents were part of the consultation process. The issue of having to buy through School laxer was raised but someone at the school signed the rights to the school’s logo over to them for a set number of years so they are tied in 🙈

When we budget for all uniform including sports kits and shoes/trainers/rugby boots/coat etc it comes close to £700 a year! We have managed to get 2 years out of the blazer and my daughter starts soon and she’ll get some hand-me-downs. My son is thankfully careful with his things.

Our blazer is £133!

Private secondary, but yeah...

It’s £45 for ours (Private school)
Some of these prices are ridiculous

Is it wool?

Just looked, our blazers are £94. The skirts are £62.50 which is ridiculous.

£109 in DD's smaller size. £129 for the bigger sizes. Private secondary.

Even buying second-hand is at least £50!

Ours use schoolblazer as well. the DCs (13 and 11) are also circa £90. I was most upset when Ds1 shredded his somehow beyond repair so i could not even hand it down. Dh got a quote for an 'invisible repair' but it was beyond even that.

@EmeraldFox

Says;

Made with British wool, exclusively woven for Schoolblazer in Yorkshire and finished with a stain resistant coating to ensure that it repels dirt and stays looking smarter for longer. This 45% wool / 55% polyester fabric is machine washable at 40°C. Do not tumble dry. Do not use fabric conditioner. Iron on a cool heat.

£98 for us too (and £30 for a jumper!!)

Ours are £42. Had one in yr 7 grew like a weed, needed a new one for yr 8, hasn't grown out of it but worn through the elbows, so needs a new one. The second hand ones always look shit as the quality is so poor to start with... I'd rather pay more and they last properly...

We're £140 from school blazer. Was £95 last year 😱

Ours is £99.50 on SchoolBlazer, also private secondary school. And it's absolutely cheap, nasty rubbish Which doesn't even have the school logo on it!

Okay, yes I'd expect a wool mix blazer to be pricey. A polyester one should be under £40.

@Didiplanthis
It's shit that the quality seems to vary so much. Ours are £38 and DS's first one lasted three years and was still fit to pass on.

Ours was £120 last year (Schoolblazer). To be fair it has lasted all year and will probably do for another. I would make sure you measure your child as per their instructions to get maximum use out of uniform items.