Are you supposed to sew a name tag into each of your child's socks? (young child)

[crokky]

Are you supposed to sew a name tag into each of your child's socks for school? Talking about a young child who might occasionally get them wet/whatever. I see lots of threads about name tags on MN so I thought I would ask for your wisdom!

If you are supposed to put the names on the socks, how/where do you do it? The whole sock stretches - isn't that going to pull the stitches apart fairly quickly?

Buy 12 pairs of identical socks then you can lose a few at school and home and still end up with 8 pairs for a few years!

well yes, I would rather lose the odd pair! But I don't want DS to get into trouble if I have done the wrong thing by not naming them

DD has been at school for 3 years and never lost a sock (noe are named, the rest of her clothes are). Not wotrth the effort imo.

I used to sew the name tags into ds' socks when he first went to school because I really didn't like the idea of him getting them mixed up and wearing someone elses but he still came home with the wrong socks, so I don't waste my time or my worries on it now

Do you care if they lose one? Just teach to always put socks in shoes when get changed and there's no problem. Too much effort to sew labels in socks!! Even if there was a sock mix up at school would it really matter if they came home in someone elses? Most teachers get kids to change and give them set places to put own clothes e.g. under own chair, so mix ups prevented.

It's no problem if he comes back without socks/in someone else's socks. I just remember when my younger brother was at school, the teachers used to tell him off about my mum's crap sewing of name tags!! (Don't know which particular items were not appropriately named!). He was really embarassed in front of his friends and still remembers it!!

So it looks like people don't name socks, yes?

I name tag socks for all ages. It is very tedious.

I tend to fold over the tag and sew across the ends.

I do for Reception. I don't after that.

I use iron-on ones on the sole.

You need to get a laundry pen and write in everything............

PLEASE RETURN TO CROKKY's CHILD YOU THIEVING BASTARD!

Am a bit fed up with DD losing stuff at school that has her name sewn in and written in - can you tell?

no!

I don't name socks. If any go missing I don't worry too much.

Where do socks go?? There must be a sock Bermuda Triangle somewhere.

I always put name tags in sports socks. Don't bother now with ordinary school socks. They all ware black ones now, but when they were younger I wrote surname on in permanent marker on the bottom of their grey ones.

So one of these laundry pens - you can write on the actual fabric of the clothes and it will be OK in the washing machine and tumble dryer? Is that right?

I just buy a load of identical socks. They are more likely to go missing in the wash than at school.

Then every so often chuck out what's left and start again.

I do use a laundry marker for most things . If I can I do it on the garment itself. I'm sure sew in lables are picked out especially out of secondary school jumpers. We've lost several and they never seem to turn up in lost property if they have sew on lables.

Iron-on labels on the sole. I bought a packet of T-shirt transfer paper and made a sheet of little ones on the computer. DS is a bit scatty with clothes so it helps the teachers as much as anything. Reminds me, must label his new shoes (white electrical tape and permanent marker, here we come)

I've never bothered with socks or underwear, dd hasn't lost anything yet

I have never bothered labelling underwear, socks and tights. Not lost anything yet. I figured that I would rather risk losing the odd sock than go through the hassle of labelling evry little piece!

I sew name tags on socks (doubled over and sewn on hem) and they still go missing. Ds lost a pair of grey socks in October which have never returned. I don't label vest or pants but I do label everything else and usually put more than one label in main uniform and sports kit - one obvious and one hidden. A tip recommended by my CM.

I do laundry marker pen as well as sewing labels - pfb moi?

DD, who has inherited my losing stuff gene, is about to complete her second term at school without losing a single sock, so I think I've been vindicated in not labelling them. In fact I think today was the first day she's actually taken her socks off at school (they got, erm, wet, apparently the climbing frame was just TOO exciting, poor love).

If you were desparate I think easy2name do stretchy iron-on labels for socks, they look like then end up a bit like the rubbery bits on the bottom of Baby Gap socks.

DS has never come home from school wearing fewer than two socks.