Schoolblazer sizing

[Ginny98]

Our school has just moved to schoolblazer and so far reviews are not good.

The blazer sizing seems really off - of an items fits on the chest, it’s too long in the arms and too short in the body. And not just one child - so far no-one who has ordered has managed to get a good fit.

Is this a common problem? Our last supplier was terrible for quality but sizing wasn’t an issue

Yep, that's how it is with Schoolblazer. Sizing is all over the place. Blazer quality has been spectacularly poor with worn out elbows in less than a term. You have little chance of getting a school year out of a blazer. Many kids have elbow patches, or just go to school with holes in the blazer.

Sorry I've had the opposite experience. DDs blazer has lasted 2 years and still going strong and good sizings.
Maybe it depends which school? Her blazer is wool so that may make a difference?

The prices on the other hand 🤯

I am finding School Blazer really good for sizes. I measured my children and went with the sizes the website recommended in Year 7, and have then just sized up when needed.

My eldest got three years out of his first blazer (Y7-Y9) and has only got a new one due to size. The end of the right hand sleeve has worn through; I just keep trimming the threads! He tells me everyone’s writing arm is the same. The blazers are 70% wool and 30% cotton.

Schoolblazer sizing is bonkers. My 8YO’s blazer is the same label size as her 4YO brother’s nursery uniform jumpers. But we did manage to get it right after 2 returns. She’s quite petite though and I have noticed some of the taller girls have really long sleeves despite the body looking like it fits well. How often do they wear it? If it’s not daily I’d just go with the best you can and accept it isn’t perfect. Daily then I might consider a tailor. Bonkers if that’s needed when it already costs £100+ though.

Yeah, they wear them daily. And he’s 7 so he won’t be taking a huge amount of care over it.

The blazer is now slightly cheaper than it was with the previous provider (it’s £111 for a blazer that’s 100% wool, which seems cheap?!) but SB have said they can special order in blazers for an extra 30%. But it takes 8 weeks.

My son is tall, but mostly in the body rather than the legs, so the shorter body looks absurd. I think we’ll have to special order, but then it can’t can’t returned.

Anyone tried this?

(“intelligent sizing” so far has not been great - trousers were also far too big)

I’ve learned to actually trust SB’s sizing. With most clothes I size up (eg, a 7.5 year old gets age 8-9 to give growing room), but SB seem to build that in so anything sized up looks massive.

Im not a fan of their postage costs!

The sizing seems fine for my DD2, though the "will fit next year" description hasn't been accurate. Luckily her school has a decent secondhand arrangement.

Her blazer was £100 essentially for a black blazer with a logo. My DD1 is at a different independent school, similar blazer is £35. And DD2 has worn her £100 blazer about twice in a year.

I have 2 children and found in the main it all to be as per the intelligent sizing. We had a skirt issue (kilt) but otherwise the rest seems fine.
Im hoping to get the 3rd year out of a blazer for one of them. The other has grown spectacularly but even then I got 2 years which was handy as she’s moved schools for 6th form anyway before I had to replace it.
I wash the blazers every half term in the machine (they are polyester ones) and they come out great!

I am not a fan and I think our schools contract with them is up this year so I will be pushing for them to move supplier.

Last year my son wore through the elbows of his blazer, started to notice they were threadbare in the second term. We darned them at Easter just about made it to summer. I have kept last years to use as material for patches in case this years is equally as bad.

First time ordering skirts this year and measured as per the website and they were huge. Got an order in for two sizes down and my fingers crossed.

I have 3 children at 3 different schools and really like school blazer. Having just returned multiple items for a different child, it has made me realise I havent had to return one item in 4 years to school blazer. I have followed their measuring instructions(measure generously) and not had any problems.

Our school uses Schoolblazer. We used the intelligent sizing and it all worked well - the exceptions being 1) the blazer arms were too long (easy to take up) and 2) DD wouldn’t be seen dead in their suggested skirt length 🙄😆

Actually I ignored their suggested waist size on the skirt and ordered smaller,
as DD usually finds things too big on the waist, but turned out they were right!

Got to say that our last school used Uniform4Kids and SchoolBlazer seems so much better. Some of the things I ordered for my son were too big (the games shorts were enormous) BUT the stuff arrived super fast. I remember ordering a school coat for my son from the old place and ended up waiting at least six weeks as they were out of stock. In fairness, SchoolBlazer are far more expensive.