Bags as part of school uniform?

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Anyone else sick and tired of fashinionista teens? Mine want the latest bag. They should make bags and event jackets part of the school uniform... Or am I being mean?

Ours have to have plain navy or black, no visible logos, for coats and bags.

Don't buy them?

Mine have rucksacks that last a year or more.

No, I would hate to have official school uniform bags. Too much risk of them picking up the wrong one. And despite having been the most unfashionable geeky teen, I still remember the sheer pleasure of choosing the "right" school bag each academic year. Normally something my mother thought was totally unsuitable.

I guess the trick is to make sure they have to work for/save up for it, if they want something OTT. I buy sensible bags. If my daughters want outlandish/expensive/ridiculous bags they use birthday/Christmas money.

All the schools I went to had their own bags andblazers. It was expensive but no more expensive than a designer back pack and it was designed to actually be practical and always lasted the entire time you were at the school so a minimum of seven years.

Mine both have decent Herschler rucksacks. DD2 is quite fashion aware but is also aware that she has to carry quite a heavy bag some
I would hate for the school to have a school rucksack - or a coat.