Year 7 Boys Shoes

[HappyDaddio]

Hi all, I'm looking at what my son will need in year 7 but haven't got a clue what styles they wear at secondary. Do they still wear Clarks black trainer types or are they deemed babyish? Are the Kickers style moccasin/loafers I wore in the 90's still cool?

Loafers are popular were I work.

Many schools don't allow 'black trainer types' so don't buy them without checking first. Our school requires 'black formal school shoes' and explicitly outlaws trainer type.

Thank you both, are the loafers slip on types or laces?

They wear both but I’d say slip ons are more popular at the moment

Depends what fits best. DS1 (Y7) is in laces because of narrow feet.

These are what my boys wear in high school . Year 8 & 10

Our school states you need black shoes, that you can polish and covers the whole foot. Trainers are allowed, but you need to be able to polish them, so you wouldn't be able to wear the trainers Aebj has posted above.

DS still wears Clarks shoes, he has had some form of these for the past 3 years (Year 9 now)...

www.clarks.co.uk/c/Asher-Soar-Youth/p/26143665

No Velcro.

Ds wears Clark's lace ups. Think it might be the one in the first pic

His brother prefers brogues and has refused Clark's shoes since secondary. He has always worn the second pic type and takes a pair of trainers to school to play sport in at lunch. He goes through 2 or 3 times as many school shoes as his brother.

Stand outside the school at the start or end of the day and see what the kids are wearing? Or phone the school and ask?

Get your son to look at shoes on transition day. Get him to look at the big kids and not the y6s though.
Our school has their uniform policy on the website

Thanks all, appreciated!

You'll have to check whats allowed. My sons' school ONLY allows lace up, leather formal shoes, like brogues. They get into massive trouble if they are in anything else. (It is a very strict public school though).

Ds had to have velcro shoes in Year 7 because his feet were still very small but they were a formal polishable style (Start-Rite or Geox usually).

He is now a Size 6 and in Year 10. He began to have laces around Year 8 when his feet grew a bit.

In Year 7 he had these

www.startriteshoes.com/will-black-leather-boys-riptape-school-shoes

He now has these

www.geox.com/en-GB/jr_federico-J24D1M00043C9999.html

In yr7 at my sons school there is a real mixture - some, including my ds wear leather sporty style shoes with Velcro, some wear loafers and others plain black lace up shoes. My Ds hates laces as he’s dyspraxia and it takes ages to do them. He’ll probably go for slip on loafer style next year

you need to know 3 things

1. what the uniform guidelines say
2. do the school care/are they enforced
3. what is current where you live. I always laugh on these threads because some posters are strongly in favour of loafers, and where we live they are an absolute no! It varies a lot area to area and school to school.

We did it by going on to the school website and looking at the photos, it took a while to convince ds that yes, he really did have to wear leather lace ups, but once he had seen the pictures of what the other boys wore, he was fine.

Very helpful if you know anyone with an older boy at the same school too, you can ask them how strict they are. ds school is strict up to a point, so they all got away with plain black leather look lace up addidas for a while, and then addidas changed the styling and the logo was more prominant and they couldn't wear them any more.

Just to second what has been said, some schools are a bit nuts about boys shoes. My DS is flat footed, and it has been a nightmare trying to find shoes that fit the "no trainers" acceptable shoes rules in the school and that can also take insoles and are sufficiently supportive (Clarks are not supportive another according to his specialist). I ended up writing to the headmistress for a special dispensation to have one with white stitching around the edges, after we had tried on an inordinate number of expensive shoes that didn't fit. And yet some other schools seem totally relaxed about trainers.

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