How much is your child's state school blazer?

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I've been told some can be very expensive - my son's blazer is £30 but you have the option to just buy a badge and sew it onto a generic supermarket blazer.

Blazer is £30, skirt is £40.

We bought it really big lets hope dd doesn't grow too quickly

£19.95 but next door are passing on their daughters to us as she's a year above mine. One big cost taken care of just the rest of the full set of uniform to buy as she can't even use her old school socks!

£25 with badge and braid on pockets all already sewn on. 5% discount from one of the suppliers if purchased before end July, saving the princely sum of £2.50, or 2.5 maths' sets.

£30 no logo's on any of dd's new uniform but still cost a fortune to buy.

£35

I bought a second hand one for £5 (brand new quality) But it is too big, so will still have to buy a smaller one for this year

£24 - £38 depending on size. They last very well - DD1's has lasted two years, one of the pockets needs stitching but it will give DD2 another year once she grows into it. They go in the machine on a delicate cycle, airing cupboard on a hanger overnight, job done.

I used to be very anti-blazers, but DD1 tells me she loves having loads of pockets and to be fair - it really makes it easier for her to manage things like periods because she can carry her stuff around discreetly.

£35 with badge embroidered on.

It's not just the blazer, it's the pullover with logo and tie, as well as the school specifying the exact style of skirt or trousers. We had to get a skirt only as the specified trousers simply did not fit. (We had a choice of too short or too wide)

That's bad, Richmal. At our local secondary, only the blazer and clip-on tie are compulsory. You can buy skirts or school trousers anywhere as long as they conform to the rules and the only other compulsory item is the house T-shirt for PE. It's all very affordable.

In greater london £70 for state secondary. £75 for private junior.

My ds started secondary last year. £36 for blazer and £20 for trousers. We also have to buy all uniform through the school which makes it very expensive.
I bought them big hoping they'd last at least 2yrs but they are so poorly made (recycled plastic bottles) I've had to buy new for sept.

My daughters is £95 from school suppliers. State school but catholic. Her whole uniform has cost us just a few pounds short of £400. Everything is has the school logo :(

£65 from school supplier with badge embroidered on. This is a comprehensive state academy. I wish it had a black or navy blazer, would have been much cheaper.

Smallest size is £27 from school supplier up to absolutely enormous size which costs £39 with school logo already embroidered on. Made out of recycled bottles, very nicely lined. Washes incredibly well at 30 and I've been pleased with it - and we'll get two years wear I think.

£24, but dd is in one of the smallest sizes, I didn't think to look how much the biggest were.

Nothing else needs to have a logo though, so it could be a lot worse.

I think it was ~£30 4 years ago.
Still fits fine, will last the whole 5 years so good value.

(Actually will still be in good enough condition for sister to use, but I'm not that tight).

£114 state boys' grammar

£114 !!

Disgraceful.

Bloody hell, glory hunter, where do you live? Buckingham palace??

You can buy any black blazer and just buy the badge and sew it on. Nice shiny machine washable material

£60 - school supplier only. thankfully it washes well

At £114 I would be buying the largest size possible and making my DC live with growing into it for the next 7 years. Bloody hell!

£75 for DD

DS (and he is 24 and this blazer was bought for going into L6 so 8 years ago) £145 plus £30 for pocket embroidery plus £15 at the start of U6 for adding the extra year. And yes, state secondary school.

£45 only from school supplier for polyester shiny crap - yes it washed but that doesn't take away the shiny elbows which also go whiteish. :(