Boys Wearing Vests, am i just old fashioned?

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As its really cold, i send my 7 year old boy to school with a vest under his school shirt. My little man says to me that only one other boy in his class wears a vest which i find totally surprising. Its freezing and most of the kids just wonder around with a thin shirt and jumper.

Is it just me that sends thier son to school with a vest on or am i just totally old fashioned??

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That is DS who is 8 years old, not my 8th son

ds(4) doesnt even own a vest and dd(7) only wears hers when the badge thing on her school polo shirt irritates her chest.

Some children feel the cold. Some children do not. Whether you child wears a vest or not does not make you a better or worse parent.

My DS won't wear a vest because his dad doesn't- loves his thermal short sleeved t shirts though.Just thin enough to go under school polo shirt.

I suspect that other boys are beginning to make comments and make fun of him.

Maybe a standard white T shirt might be better solution if he is genuinely cold or just let him choose for himself.

Hi Thanks all.

No one has made fun of him, he is just getting to that age where he notices differences between him and his peers.

He is happy to wear the sleeveless ones, which i might add, he looks very cute in. I was just very conscious that i dont want him to stand out.

Yes you're all right about the child feeling the cold. My boy is very skinny so he does feel the cold (as do i) so i feel more comfortable knowing he has his vest on.

Girls just don't seem to be botherd about weaing a vest, but boys do, i wonder why?

I think as some of you have pointed out, it seems to be a culture thing. African boys always seem to wear a vest no matter what the weather, but British white boys don't seem to wear them. So weird! Wonder what it is?

Most the girls wear vests, I find, they don't want the boys to see their nipples when they change for PE.
DS (6yo) won't wear a vest, but then he wears shorts almost year around, really doesn't feel the cold.

DS (7) and DD (5) haven't worn vests for years. But they don't seem to feel the cold ever.

Ragged, wearing shorts throughout the year, the thought of that makes me feel cold he he. Am sitting in in quite a few layers. How sgtrange it is that some of us feel the cold and some of us doesn't.

Regarding your daughter, i have never thought of it like that, makes a lot of sense!

I didn't think kids wore vests any more - indeed, I've seen reports of schools actually banning wearing of vests under uniform shirts/blouses. Our own kids had stopped wearing vests by the time they started primary school, and have never shown any inclination to start wearing them again. I have to admit that I probably set them a bad example - at age 6 I positively rebelled against vests, to the point of having a very noisy stand-up row with Mum in M&S when she tried to buy me some new ones for the winter, and haven't worn a vest since.

We love a t-shirt style vest in this house. The ds' and dh have perfected the art of a t-shirt vest under a slim fitting v-neck jumper. They look very good.

The ds' only wear under school uniform in the winter, they're 12 and 13.

Thanks all, it kinda puts things into perspectives. Even though it is slightly warming up i think my little man will still wear his vests while he doesn't complain. Just wish more kids would wear them as its soooooo cold!

Quinions: "I've seen reports of schools actually banning wearing of vests under uniform shirts/blouses."

Eh?! Where on earth have you seen that?

My two wear vests

DS1 is 7 and doesn;t wear vests although he has some t shirt style ones. He doesn't seem to feel the cold. Even though we are in Scotland.

DS2 is 3 and still wears them as he doesn't get to choose what he wears yet.

I positively discourage my son from wearing a vest to school, would stop him taking a jumper too if I could! He doesn't notice when he gets too hot, he just gets REALLY grumpy and then starts to suffer from heat rash - even in winter.

At weekends he almost always wears a vest, I think out home must be a good 10 degrees cooler than school!

Right from a really small baby he hated being hot. i however am always in two jumpers, perhaps i should start working at his school.

DS1&2 are 8 and 6 and wear vests. I don't think anyone has ever teased them about it.

My DD has never worn a vest since being a baby. She gets too hot and hates them.

She's 8y now and in the past couple of months started to wear little cropped vests as she is starting to develop, and asked for them I guess for modesty reason.

"Just wish more kids would wear them as its soooooo cold!"

Why? Some children don't feel the cold. Why would you want a child to wear a vest and feel too warm or uncomfortable? TBH it is better to be slightly cool/cold than over warm anyway.

CurlyhairedAssassin:
As a specific example, Cranford Community College in Hounslow, West London, where the uniform regulations state "If students wear non-uniform clothing, for example, vests and T-shirts under their polo shirt . . . staff are entitled to confiscate them. Confiscated items will be returned at the end of the academic year or the end of the following academic year if confiscated in July."
More generally,see: forum.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=2795098
and
www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/4862846/Schoolgirl-ordered-to-remove-thermal-vest-by-head-teacher.html
Wierd, ain't it?

Quinions, I don't think they mean actual neutral coloured underwear, from reading those links. Schools are clearly trying to avoid the problem of vests and T-shirts with logos and slogans on which would show through a shirt.

However, the last link is ridiculous. James Colquhoun, the head, is clearly a power-crazy nutter with no notion of common sense. In his eyes, vests are not "vital garments for today's climate". What's the betting HE doesn't walk a mile through the snow or rain? Or stand outside on a freezing yard all lunch hour, every day even when you've got a cold?

A simple verbal warning to the pupil and a letter home to the parent stating that a particular vest is too visible/bright would be enough, with the request that vests be of neutral colour only.

In fact, I would be pulling my child out of that particular school if my child was willing. If a headmaster displays such appalling lack of common sense in one area, you can bet that is being displayed in other areas in the school too. I am all for discipline in schools, particularly secondary schools (I work in one), but there is such a thing as going too far and coming across as barmy.

Curlyhairedassasin (love the name by the way) I totally agree. I think it is the choice of the parent if they want their child to wear a vest or not. I do agree that if it is brightly coloured and it shows through the shirt it can be a bit tacky for the school, but as you say, neutral colours is fine.

I would also take my kid out of the school if the head said that, surely there's other more important things for a school to focus on.

Hulababy: CHILL! if you look at my previous posts i said that some kids don't feel the cold.

Personally i prefer to be too hot than too cold. Think i am cold blooded.

My DSS cried the other week because his mum has been making him wear longjohns to school! He is 12!