After long discussion - we need tabards - does anyone know where I can get some from?

[KatyMac]

Nice colours - not navy/pale blue/yukkie green/god awful colours - maybe a nice green (not too blue/yellow) or a deep purple

Not terrible white edging so you look like you are in a hospital

Nice big packets

Preferable not too expensive

Thanks

KMc

We wear tabards at work, they come from British Tabards - we have the one with the bug pictures all over it! Their service is pretty good.

Here, perhaps?

Thanks - I'm having a look

here? - plain, patterned and striped !

Not dramatically inspired ladies - but that could be because I've been to the dentist & had a crown replaced & I'm feeling all tearful & upset atm

Can you have some made ?

Maybe - I wonder how much that would cost....I think I know a lady

Tabards aren't the most inspirational things ever, are they!

Hope you're feeling a bit better now.

Not really - but thanks for asking (I have taken 2 prescription strength co-codamol & still feel like I have been smacked around the face with a stick)

I'm sorry but I really hate the ones with the bug pictures on

I really wanted something understated & classy - some chance huh?

I really hate the one with the bug picture on too! But oddly enough, the children adore it, and they react differently to the ladies who wear a plain coloured tabard than they do to those of us with the buggy one.

Do you have a wheat bag or hot water bottle that you can warm up and put on your face? It might offer a bit of comfort.

Good idea about the wheat bag, Thanks

Isn't that odd about the bug things - how about putting a really popular lady in a plain one & see if it makes a difference to the way the children interact with them?

Would be interesting, wouldn't it. Kids are strange creatures!

Hope your face is feeling better soon.

Thanks

Bump in case anyone feels inspired or knows something really good

why do you need tabards? my sister works in a nursery and they just wear a polo shirt i think.

We decided that polo shirts weren't very fair on a member of staff who has skin problems - she likes her arms covered sometimes

oh right they have sweatshirts too but i suppose they would be too hot in the summer.

Yep - that's what we thought

Whereas a very fine cotton shirt even with long sleeves would be OK (ish) in the summer with a tabard - not great but OK

do they have to wear a uniform? i know a few round here just wear their own casual clothes.

They have asked for one as they keep being thrown up on/wetted on (and one horrid occasion with poo )

yes i suppose i can understand that. with regards to the tabards do you want a wipe clean type one?

No - they can go in the wash (I will have spares if an accident happens)

I guess I am just fussy I hate childminding looking too professional

could you get someone to make something like this

or this but perhaps not in grey or pink or this?

Lovely (but slightly out of my price range )