Oh for the love of mike! Does your dd wear skinny trousers to school? I need help.

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Dd (14) needs new school trousers. I sent for some v nice ones from Next. They are exactly the same as the ones she had last year and liked (bootcut).

Now no no no (and that look that teenagers do) she wants skinny school trousers. Where do I get those from?? I'm not even sure they'll be allowed (she says yes, but she would say that) She'll look like Max Wall wearing them with a blazer.

Help! She's tall and slim and would need age 15 cos of her height.

Tammy? Though ime they don't wear particularly well and need sewing or replacing before the year is out.

Dd's secondary doesn't allow skinny trousers or skirts with Lycra, thank the Lord.

Thank you More - my concern is they'll not be permitted even if I find some. Mind you the school make a big song and dance about skirt lengths - in theory - and yet every girl I see is mincing along in a micro mini skirt. What to do??

ah we had an issue with skinnies last year. bought them from next school section; she looked lovely in them; but was told in no uncertain terms by school that they were not acceptable. she now wears nasty tube skirts which I hate (but she is a tall skinnymalinks and looks fabulous - we just argue about length).

if I were you I would leave the skinny trousers til after half term at least, when the teachers might have cooled down their ardour for correctness. sometimes we have got away with skinny black jeans, other times not.
had some nice ones from topshop once.

Ah yes I see them there on the Next site - but not in grey. Aaargh! I bet the school wouldn't like them though.

I wish I had the home tel no of the Head. She might listen if he told her!

Maybe I could take the bootcut ones in a bit. Make them a little less...booty?.

LOL at the 'after half term' comment.

As a new teacher I spent my first term waging war with my form with regard to uniform and make-up (year 10) and was much stricter than I intended to be long-term.

By January we had a compromise - they were all decently turned out. Not as rebellious as they wanted, but not quite within the school uniform guidelines.

Leave it a bit is good advice :)

Our school specifies no skinny/tight fitting trousers for girls and none of those lycra waistband skirts either.

So glad I've got boys - much easier when it comes to school trousers - had the same Next one in every size since they started school!!

Your daughter is the one who wants them, so why not let her have the job of finding them? Tell her what the budget is and let her shop or go online or ask all her pals. Also tell her that if it turns out that they aren't allowed and a new pair is required to conform with the uniform policy, she can pay you back for the skinnies.

I remember always having to take in the bottoms of jeans and trousers myself. Suggest it to her, give her some guidelines such as where to take a line from on the side seams, stitch length etc, and you've given her the opportunity to develop a new skill :D

Lol I did suggest she found some online and she likes these God I feel and sound like my mum moaning on. I'd have wanted them too at 14 with legs like hers. Omg why can't she be 3 again and in those dear little dresses I used to have her in??

My dd2 is a rebel without a cause! So she has decided trousers should be the cause. She has 2 pairs of miss sexies. Her school combatted this last year with holding a stock of tesco trousers whick they make the girls change into. This worked for a fortnight until every pair had been given out and not brought back. The ones she has cost less than a tenner each.

most official school uniform shops locally will have a good selection if you can get there. try to avoid the 'miss sexy' label ones if you can (abhorrent, to my mind). I am a teacher and battle too but when we went to dd's new school before term ended to meet her form teacher i asked her to wear her trousers and got form teacher to say if they would be acceptable or not (they were). I think they are too lenient but hey ho that's one less battle for me!

I am a teacher and my school does not permit skinny trousers. Might be best to check with the school first.

DD told me skinny was ok but it wasnt and had to get new ones

I bought from the uniform warehouse online. Good service , pass picky DD test and picky school test, cheapish but dont last long . I hate uniform issues

I wonder if all those people who trained as teachers, fired with enthusiasm for education, actually thought they would spend their days yelling at people about the cut of their trousers.
just a passing thought..;)

Is there nothing on the School's website about uniform policy?

I'd make her go back in the ones you've got with the proviso that you'll ask then and get her the skinnies if she's allowed.

I'm a head of yr. my school doesn't allow skinny trousers either although straight cut are ok as long as they r 'proper' trousers material.

also don't allow the stretch tight skirts either.

nelly i am filled with enthusiasm for the joy of the first few days of term looking at each child as they come into form, declaring shoes, hair, tie, trousers unacceptable...i wish wish wish that there was a law stating that only marks and spencer or asda r one type of trousers was the national uniform so there could be no more arguments. why DO parents allow their kids into school with bright red dyed hair, trousers that leave NOTHNG to the imagination and holister 'school bags' that cost ??????

Thanks everyone. I'm a bit surprised at my dd as she's never before tried to push many boundaries clothing or otherwise and isn't usually rebellious. I know, I know... welcome to the teens you'll all say!.

She has gloomily accepted the ones I've now bought (it's all so tragic at this age and there's much sighing about it and looking ) but I will take them in and make them straighter. I think that'll be a compromise.

And I'll do as JustSpiro suggests and check out the rules when they're back. If she's the only one in the school without skinnies and a terrible mother, I'll relent.

Ds is so much easier. Well getting him in the bath is tricky, he prefers a light dust to soap and water, but he'll wear anything.

And btw meant to say how much I don't envy teachers this battle. I have it with one teen, you have it with hundreds!

what a waste of teacher time

Those trousers you have linked to were definitely the subject of a MN thread before. I think the school banned them.

I would definitely not be buying clothes for school with a big red "Miss Sexies" label on the backside!!

Honestly why don't schools just declare the uniform is a hoodie and jeans.

Then when the DCs wanted stupidly expensive ones we could smile and say fine, but that's your Xmas and birthday money.

I liked the fact that the school I taught in had a uniform because it gave the kids something to channel their rebelliousness into. Without the uniform, it might have been more important rules they were pushing against.