Uniform Blazer pocket doesnt fit logo badge

[Faultymain5]

Where should I sew it.

DH suggested opposite side of the pocket (where there is no pocket).
I'm thinking one of the lower pockets where the badge does fit.

It just needs the badge on the blazer, the notes do not specify where, but it really doesnt fit the top blazer pocket where it would normally go.

I can totally see your point re the blazer. Dds is a funny colour or I would definetly have bought one from M and S or similar. It's as plasticy and shiny as a crisp packet (the school shop one) and is cheap and nasty looking.

Just sew the badge over the pocket, leave the top of the pocket open. It will be fine.

She won't be sitting in class at all, she'll be in isolation for wearing incorrect uniform.

I would sew it over the pocket - line up the top edge of the badge with the top edge of the pocket to avoid a gap

I suspect this will continue to fall on deaf ears but you should just buy the school blazer. I was the kid who had a mum that liked to save a few quid (literally sometimes just a few pounds) rather than buying the things everyone else had; I wasn't bullied for it but I still felt like the odd one out.

I would be mortified if my mum would have done this when I was at high school!!

I can't believe you're not arsed about what you're setting your daughter up for

And I'm sorry but thinking about the logo on the bottom pocket 😂😂😂😂 that's what makes me think you're having us on

Poor girl

Please don't sew it somewhere random like on the other side or lower. Fit it on that side somehow or remove the pocket and sew it there making a fake pocket somehow.

Seriously the hassle dd had because we got dds tie from shop two of the two authorised and allowed uniform shops as shop two was nearer for us when nearly every other child got it from shop one and therefore the stripe on dds was very very slightly a different colour was ridiculous.

You can't sew it lower. They will be eaten alive.

Tbh actually looking again at the photos, it's going to look bloody shit whatever you did with it...

Unless you got the official one

Still can't believe this 😂😂

OP yes my childhood was mean. I was mean. But you are wrong about projecting.

Kids are mean. It's a story as old as time. YOU have no right to put your daughter up for that because you don't feel like changing it now. YOU bought the wrong blazer. You are now trying to find a fix for it. The only acceptable fix is going tomorrow and buying her the school blazer and returning that one.

Please OP. Do this for your daughter and listen to all the pp on here who are telling you the same thing.

What a stupid decision , you have just set your child up to be bullied!

I'd contact the school tomorrow before chopping any pockets off.

@JoceHark “blazer wanker” 🤣 reminds me of my own blazer wanker experience. Me and my sister started a new primary school, the blazer was navy and the one for the previous school had been royal blue. My mum GOT THE BADGE FOR THE NEW SCHOOL AND SEWED IT ON THE ROYAL BLUE BLAZER. God even now all these years later we still cringe when we think about what a pair of tits we looked and felt standing out like a pair of sore thumbs in the playground. THE WORST THING EVER

At my DD's secondary, they have to have a 'uniform card' in that top pocket and they do checks in tutor time to make sure it's there.

Busy sewing, but quickly @PerspicaciaTick This is what the school's uniform policy regarding blazers is:

"Navy blazer with [name of school] embroidered badge"

If they put her in isolation for actually having the above....well that would be interesting, wouldn't it?

Separately though OP I’d also be fucking annoyed that you were effectively shoehorned into buying a crappy blazer when a blazer in the right colour from M and D plus badge should be a viable option!

I feel really sorry for your poor child. I don’t understand why you’d contribute to them
Being bullied. Comfort is not equal to how cruel kids can be at school. I hope it works out but I doubt it.

It's sad to hear these stories from some PP's

It reminds me of one of my fave stand ups by Greg Davies when he lists all the nicknames kids had at his high school, some for really pointless things lol, but it's so true and I think everyone had these are their school

For a parent to deliberately be setting them up for their teenage years over being stubborn aswell as over something the parent won't be wearing, is quite frankly disgusting

Again I take it with a pinch of salt though

She’ll be roasting hot sat in a jumper and her blazer
My 14 year old only has a shirt then blazer not a thick wool one just a light one and he wears it in corridors and in and out of school but it’s off in class. He has a uniform one the same as all of the other kids, but the badge comes attached. I just think you’re setting her up to be different on her first sat day, it’s hard enough. Your M&S blazer may be better quality but it’s not the same and the badge is going to look ridiculous if it’s over a pocket or in an incorrect place. Speak to school re issues with blazer fabric. Surely she’ll have a shirt on? Between her and the jumper and a itchy blazer?

@SparklyMagpie I love that whole bit he does - “we called a kid Baghdad, because ONCE he wore a bag that his dad bought”

Agree with the others OP. Kids are cruel and you’re setting your daughter up here

Wait if she's going to be wearing a jumper under the blazer anyway, then why does it matter if the official one is shit material?

@ShirleyPhallus 😂😂😂 that's what I was going to quote but thought best not, but that is one of my favourite bits of any stand up, ever!! 😂😂

We had a kid at our school called 'stig of the dump' because someone saw her mum go into a charity shop.

She was called stig of the dump for the next three years.

Kids are fuckers, talk about handing them ammunition

How are you going to stop them from discipling her? They won't ask your permission in advance. I'm sure that you may well win an intellectual debate with them regarding the wording of their policy. And you really believe that while you have that argument your DD will be silently thanking you for her marginally less crispy, slightly wrong navy, weirdly badged blazer?

Another vote for buying the school blazer.

Starting secondary school is enough of a challenge, without turning up in a slightly different colour blazer with a hand-sewn badge that doesn't fit the pocket. When everyone is wearing a uniform, small differences are very noticeable.

Most 11 year olds would rather wear the same blazer as everyone else. They don't care about the quality of the fabric (the school ones are usually polyester, which washes well and dries quickly).

I started secondary school with a different ("more practical") haircut to everyone else, different ("well-made") shoes and a different ("better quality, will last") type of bag. I stuck out like a sore thumb and felt self-conscious - it was horrible.

If you can afford the school blazer, buy it.

Thanks, all done. True story.

Sorry, but not having her sat in class focusing on that rather than being as comfortable as possible with both blazer and jumper.

But you're happy to have her in class dreading break and lunch times cos she knows she'll be picked on.