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Try those Blazers on now! Public Service Announcement

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Sparklingbrook · 03/09/2013 11:42

DS1 going into Year 10 on Thursday. Tried his blazer on today that fitted fine the day they broke up. It is far too small now, the sleeves especially-about two inches short. Shock

Luckily we had the next size up due to buying the wrong size last year. But I am astounded.

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 03/09/2013 11:43

If you feed them, they keep growing. And not feeding them so they don't grow is frowned upon. Apparently.

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Sparklingbrook · 03/09/2013 11:45

But it's only been 6 weeks, there was no need for him to grow that much surely? Grin

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SoupDragon · 03/09/2013 11:45

If DS1's doesn't fit, he's going in wearing one that's too small. I've been asking him all summer to try it on.

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Sparklingbrook · 03/09/2013 11:46

Oh yes Soup, the build up to trying the wretched thing on has gone on for days. I demanded he did it today. There was much tutting and moaning. Hmm

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Needmoresleep · 03/09/2013 12:20

Just your luck then if the school photo is at the start of term with everyone else looking neat in new uniform and yours squeezed into last year's blazer!

cq · 03/09/2013 12:26

That's so funny - EXACTLY that happened in our house. Only he didn't try on his blazer until last night - it had been dry cleaned at the start of the holiday and tidily hung in his wardrobe [smug]. At the end of last term it was deemed the only item that still had enough growth room for another year.

Ha, who was I kidding. He seems to have done an Incredible Hulk type thing over the holidays (apart from the green bit).

He's gone into school today all uncomfortable.

Thanks for the Public Service Announcement, Sparkling but it's too chuffin late Grin

WynkenBlynkenandNod · 03/09/2013 12:29

Oh flipping heck, thanks. Off to check that right away.

LadyMaryQuiteContrary · 03/09/2013 12:30

Grin Oops. They may still have some in John Lewis.

I've replaced all of ds's uniform but it's all huge so I'm going to have to spend the afternoon taking up trousers etc. Sad

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Sparklingbrook · 03/09/2013 12:30

cq how does it happen? Is it all the eating and sleeping? Confused

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noblegiraffe · 03/09/2013 12:33

School furniture is a great fit for kids at KS3, then they get to Y10 and classrooms are filled with hulking man-boys trying to cram their legs under tiny desks.
It does seem to happen overnight.

cq · 03/09/2013 12:34

For sure it's both. I think my DS adopted the mantra of 'Eat till I'm tired, sleep till I'm hungry' over the holidays.

He's going to be SO tired, hungry and cranky when he gets home tonight Hmm

LickleLemon · 03/09/2013 12:37

I have had similar with my daughter but I was frowned upon in the supermarket for attempting to buy uniform at the end of August. Hardly any there now as its all been moved to a tiny corner to make way for christmas shite! Apparently I should have bought new in June - when he old stuff still fitted her fine!!

headlesslambrini · 03/09/2013 12:45

DS is 14 and measuring in at 5ft 10" - I'm sure he was only 5ft when they broke up in July. At the other end of the spectrum is DD who is just going up to secondary school, all the stuff for her is far to big.

SoupDragon · 03/09/2013 12:47

Just your luck then if the school photo is at the start of term with everyone else looking neat in new uniform and yours squeezed into last year's blazer!

Then his stupidity and laziness will be recorded for posterity!

It only has to fit across the shoulders for their photos anyway and he has grown upwards like a string bean :)

cls77 · 03/09/2013 14:12

My dd has started secondary school today and despite buying all her uniform at the end of July at the school, the blazer has miraculously shrunk over the last 6 weeks!
So, I went to the school yesterday (meeting lots of anxiously stressed parents of yrs 8+) and was told theyd sold out of the next size up, hence dd has gone in today with a blazer that looks like her fathers!!! Hey ho, at least it should last till New Year? Wont it?!!!! Grin

Tigerblue · 03/09/2013 14:16

I had the same with school shoes! Got them checked three weeks ago, she still measured the same shoe size she already had and there was growth room when the assistant checked. We went into town last Thursday and as a last minute thought, I asked her to try her school shoes and found her feet were right at the end.

Had to go up two sizes this time with school blazer. Some of her stuff from Year 7 still fitted, but I've bought ones to grow into as I can't imagine them fitting much longer. Hopefully I'm covered!

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Sparklingbrook · 03/09/2013 14:24

Our schools go back Thursday, today or tomorrow is not the time to be going anywhere near the uniform shop. Last year they had to have a one out one in policy on the door. Shock

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Mabelface · 03/09/2013 14:27

My three tried their blazers on last week and we'll get another term out of them. I just have to sew the linings where they've killed them.

Lancelottie · 03/09/2013 14:31

I've just bought yr 7 dd an age 15 skirt as she has grown right past the two age 12 ones we bought in July -- and there don't appear to be any sizes between 4 and 14 left in our town.

It's mid-calf length and she's (ahem) sooo pleased with it...

AtiaoftheJulii · 03/09/2013 14:35

My baby boy (ok, he's 12) has grown 3cm over the summer holidays. I've had my head in the sand over his blazer, but he came to me yesterday and said it doesn't fit. Wondering whether to send him with it a bit small for a week and hope there miraculously appears one in a larger size at the secondhand uniform shop at the end of the first week. Trouble is, it's only his year and the year above that have the new blazers, so it's quite unlikely. Or do I just bite the (expensive) bullet and get a brand new one?

hardboiled · 03/09/2013 15:56

I took in his trousers a week ago and today they were too short! I must have measured them wrong! Gotta do it all over again. Sigh.

SoupDragon · 03/09/2013 15:57

Apparently it fits. Whoop! I have not seen the trying on to confirm or deny this though.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 03/09/2013 16:04

I'd got so complacent about the back to school thing and well, oops! By some miracle we managed to get dd a pair of shoes that fit today. As for her blazer which she has just tried on - well, its a good job they aren't made to do them up is all I can say, she seems to have ahem, grown up rather.

bruffin · 03/09/2013 16:12

DD has got her first bit of new uniform since year 7 and she is going into yr 11. She had grown out of her blazer but I think her new one is too big and she stopped growing ages ago.
Trouble is she is a size 8 and 5'6 and they dont make blazers for taller thin people. They just seem to make them go outwards. I had the same problem with DS at 6ft I had to get him a 44in to get the length, he is only a 38 inch chest.

LickleLemon · 04/09/2013 08:25

DD2 has now announced that her trainers are waay too small. Sigh.

Looks like I have a day of Sports Direct hell ahead of me!

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