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Uniform Blazer pocket doesnt fit logo badge

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Faultymain5 · 01/09/2019 17:46

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.

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JoceHark · 01/09/2019 19:09

Yeah you can't just say all done without showing us a pic of the finished blazer

Fruityb · 01/09/2019 19:10

Since it can just go anywhere and doesn’t specify where, why not sew it on the back so she can look like a hells angel?

Poor kid.

ShirleyPhallus · 01/09/2019 19:10

@SparklyMagpie me too! Makes me laugh every time!

SparklyMagpie · 01/09/2019 19:12

"Since it can just go anywhere and doesn’t specify where, why not sew it on the back so she can look like a hells angel"

😂😂😂😂😂

MidweekObscurity · 01/09/2019 19:16

Since it can just go anywhere and doesn’t specify where, why not sew it on the back so she can look like a hells angel?

GrinGrinGrin

DonPablo · 01/09/2019 19:16

I don't but the school uniform shop blazer either. They never quite fit my ds properly and by god they virtually crackle as he walks. And they're upwards of £60!

The school office sell the badges separately (a fiver) and this year we went to the sales and got him a £130 blazer from m and s in the sale for £8. Much comfier, much better fit, and totally 'allowed'. Although the badge is a regular size!

Try taking the pocket off and sew it where its supposed to go, don't sew it somewhere else, that is asking for questions and bullying.

Bunnybigears · 01/09/2019 19:19

I think you may find this blazer gets 'lost' fairly quickly.

MarigoldGlove · 01/09/2019 19:19

I bet your DD's school has 'invisible' pockets like this one. Neater than those massive ones.

Uniform Blazer pocket doesnt fit logo badge
Topseyt · 01/09/2019 19:21

Schools can and often do discipline students for having the incorrect uniform or for wearing it incorrect uniform.

It doesn't matter how you try now to brazen it out on here. This is incorrect uniform. You will end up with egg on your face if they contact you about it. They could even suspend your DD for it. That used to happen at my DDs' schools.

Whatever you do, it will look very different. Why on earth did you not get the right blazer? It is the outer garment and the one that everyone will immediately see, therefore it is doubly important that it conforms properly. You are not making any sense.

You are setting your child up for problems here. M & S certainly rarely features amongst the cool brands for teenagers anyway, so if you think you have done her some sort of a favour there then you are likely to be disappointed. It is a brand I like wearing, but with the exception of it's underwear section and food hall, my DDs have never agreed.

Just get the proper uniform. You'll probably be made to in the end anyway.

You are making work for yourself with this sewing on of the logo badge as the proper blazer would surely come with it already in place! Plus you are wasting your time.

Lougle · 01/09/2019 19:25

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Faultymain5 · 01/09/2019 19:46

@MarigoldGlove not it is not an invisible pocket

@Topseyt It is only incorrect uniform if the logo was in one of the two places I suggested. As said upthread it's not. I am pretty much a stickler for rules, the school shop blazer is not a rule.

A mistake slot of people on this page have made is that I'm being cheap (blazers same price), now you're assuming I'm trying to impress a bunch of children at school, I neither did that when I was 11 nor now. I dont care about brands I care about the quality of the product (and then price I'm not made of money).

I do however accept that she may look different to many other kids, but we really are where we are. But I'm the parent who sent her daughter to school in school uniform on the third non-uniform day in less than 4 weeks of term and complained. So bad parent probably. Maybe, definitely

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Faultymain5 · 01/09/2019 19:48

@Lougle and others if think not real report. Or just a thought, pass it by.

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wibbletooth · 01/09/2019 19:49

See if there’s a parents Facebook group for the school or new parents and ask on there...

MarigoldGlove · 01/09/2019 19:51

The daughter is not going to get in trouble for wearing a non-standard blazer if the school sell the badges separately.

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Faultymain5 · 01/09/2019 19:51

PP mentioned if she is wearing jumper and blazer what does it matter. In all honesty I didnt think of this until you said that. DohBlush

Other PP I think badge on back might be a little aggressive, even I have certain boundaries.Grin

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ChicCroissant · 01/09/2019 19:53

I do however accept that she may look different to many other kids, but we really are where we are. But I'm the parent who sent her daughter to school in school uniform on the third non-uniform day in less than 4 weeks of term and complained. So bad parent probably. Maybe, definitely

Any reason you expect your DD to do this? Because it makes her bear the brunt of your own beliefs - it's her school experience, not yours to impose your beliefs about uniform on.

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Faultymain5 · 01/09/2019 19:53

@wibbletooth I've been looking couldn't find one.

@MarigoldGlove I thought this too. The badge is specifically called "Blazer Badge"

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SparklyMagpie · 01/09/2019 19:57

Glad you noticed I posted that @Faultymain5 Wink

I just thought she wouldn't itch or whatever if she had something else on underneath it

Yiddytod · 01/09/2019 19:57

But I'm the parent who sent her daughter to school in school uniform on the third non-uniform day in less than 4 weeks of term

Why would you do this - i understand that you were protesting via your DD but in reality it is only the disorganised dc that do this so just marks her our as one of those ( and to being called a loser). You shouldn't be using your DD's clothing to protest about things you don't like about a school - you should do it directly yourself.

SparklyMagpie · 01/09/2019 19:59

Why didn't you let her go in her own clothes Confused

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Faultymain5 · 01/09/2019 20:06

ChicCroissant, probably to do with the last line of my sentence actually. But oh yes each time they ask me for money for one of these things that affects our household budget. I dear say it affects others too.

Of course your right it's her experience. Sometimes my principles do get in the way.

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NannyR · 01/09/2019 20:16

Even if the other kids don't tease her for it, she could still end up feeling uncomfortable for sticking out amongst the crowd, even for something as small as a slightly different colour blazer. When I started secondary school there was the option of a uniform bought from the uniform shop or one bought from a tailor - my grandparents paid for me to have the tailor made uniform which was a slightly different colour and style. There were only about three of us in the whole year that had the tailor uniform, and although I don't remember being teased for it , I did feel painfully self conscious about being different to everyone else which wasn't great on top of everything else that comes with settling in to a new school and peer group.

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Faultymain5 · 01/09/2019 20:16

Disorganised DC don't also have the money to go with it, because they've forgotten it. My argument at the time was twofold, the repetitive request for non-uniform when they have a uniform and also reinforcing the idea that people will only give to charity when they get something out of it (other than nice feelings). But we digress.

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longestlurkerever · 01/09/2019 20:22

Gosh the drama on here. OP has stated several times that alternative blazers are permitted uniform. I sort of agree with the general sentiment that it'd be easier just to buy the standard issue blazer and kids are unlikely to thank you for a "better quality" blazer but MN is obsessed with the idea that you can predict and therefore prevent what kids will find to pick on and I just don't think it works that way. And that is coming from someone whose secondary years were plagued by bullying.

Lougle · 01/09/2019 20:29

I have no reason to report and my comment about the thread not being real was a short hand way to say that I didn't think anyone would be so stupid as this, but as you say, we are where we are...

I feel for your DD. Maybe she'll grow up resilient and principled. Or maybe she'll be starting threads on a forum like MN, saying "why did my Mum do this?"

You can't control whether children will be bullied. I expected DD2 to be (ASD), but she's seemed to be invisible to bullies float through without issue so far. One thing I do know is that I'm not going to see her bullied because of my decisions on clothing. So I get her the clothes she needs that are nice but don't stand out from the crowd, particularly. I won't stop her wearing her choice of clothing to non-uniform days, but I will say "do you think those styles match, DD?" if she's making a particularly disastrous choice, to give her the opportunity to rethink if she wants to.