Home made uniform?

[WoolyMama]

Is this an daft idea?
I really want to make most of dd's uniform when she goes to school - I'll probably buy shirts but I'd like to knit or sew the rest.

I'm quite a confident sewer and knitter and already make a lot of dc's clothes

The school uniform isn't super strict so they'll definitely be allowed and younger dc's are both girls so stuff can be handed down.

Please don't. It does sound a lovely idea, but I can't think of anything more likely to cause playground teasing. Which is crap, but won't help your DC.

I think skirts/pinafores would be ok if you are good but please no knitting

Four year olds won’t notice or care. DD has a friend with a hand knitted cardigan, no one cared. The skirt/pinafore won’t look home made, they’re all different anyway.

No don’t
Nice idea but a really bad one
Just make their home clothes instead

Given how easily it's ruined by whiteboard marker or lost after PE is it going to be cost effective? By the end of Reception the only clothes worth keeping were two logo t-shirts, the rest were rags.

No, don't do it.

Yes it's a daft idea. Put your time and effort into wearing lovely clothes that they can wear at the weekend, and buy standard school untform that they can trash at school!

My mum knitted all my school cardigans and jumpers at primary and made my summer dresses. Not a problem at all. If you have the time, do it.

making lovely clothes, not wearing. Where is the edit button when you need it?

My mum made me wear a home knitted cardigan when I started high school in the 80s. I still bear the psychological scars.

The knitting was the one bit I was set on definitely doing

I'm not too worried about them getting ruined as she's an incredibly clean and tidy child (whereas I was constantly slightly grotty despite my parents best efforts)

I'd focus on making the out of school clothes. Uniform gets trashed.

Please don't. My DM did this for me and it was so obvious that they were home made. I hoped snd prayed for the run of the mill shop bought stuff that all the other kids had!

None of the children at our school have knitted jumpers. They all either wear the logo stuff or supermarket type cardigans. A knitted one would look really different and I don’t think ddwould appreciate having such an obvious difference in uniform.

Gingham dresses, when we were small, everyone had homemade dresses, made by one of the other mums. We all used to go round to her house, pick the style we wanted, she’d measure us and make the dress. They were really similar to the supermarket ones I buy dd now.

Dd wears polo shirts which I’m not sure you could make? Skirts/trousers you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference between shop bought or home made if you are good though, so you could do those.

Funny isn’t it, top 10% earning family; hand knit cardigan/sweater priceless. Lower income appears to signify poverty. I had a fabulous customized pattern for joggers, no one would ever know they weren’t store bought. Custom fit.
If you enjoy doing this give it a try. Just be sensitive if the kids comment. You might have to review your plan.

Uniforms are supposed to look identical, that's the point isn't it? Don't they lose/swap things every five minutes anyway?
Why not make a mini handmade uniform for a favourite doll or teddy instead?

I think some girls had knitted cardi in his class when my ds was younger.
Getting ruined cannot be prevented just because your dc is clean and tidy though. It can drop on the floor and stamped on, someone else can splash the paint over it, etc. If you are prepared for that to happen and can shrug off, then I think it's actually a very lovely to have hand made stuff..

DD wore a cardigan (knitted by her grandmother) while she was at infants. By the time she got to juniors she was more aware of being different and insisted on a shop bought one.
So I think this would be fine while they were little, but not for more than 2 or 3 years.

Ah my grandma used to hand knit my school cardigans. I remember being a bit embarrassed that they were different to everyone else’s even then... approx 28 years ago.
Maybe save the knitting for some lovely weekend/holiday outfits?

Oh and DD1 started school last week and came home with a long splash of orange paint down her back... she obviously hadn’t done it herself, I think someone was waving a paintbrush around! So it doesn’t really matter how clean and tidy she is...

I made school skirts in the gingham material. Also made some culottes. DD loved them and I actually made them for a lot of the other girls.

She would have loved a hand knit cardigan!

I'd probably buy some stuff too but no problem to make your own.

Just not sure why you'd spend your time making boring uniform when you could be making more fun weekend/holiday clothes.

They really do get trashed in reception. There's a lot of crawling around the floor, climbing things, and sitting very close to other children wielding whiteboard pens and paintbrushes. Cardi maybe if it's in a dark colour. Skirts and dresses are really rather dull and there's such a wide range of styles available off the peg anyway.

You also may have a lot of chance making a special hand made outfit for dress up days in school.

My MIL knitted cardigans for my DDs when they started school. They were fine in them for all of Reception and most of Year 1. However, both requested standard logo cardigans going into Yr 2.

Having said that, they both have some lovely gingham summer dresses that my mum made for them. They look similar to shop bought I guess and both are still happily wearing those.