M&S Easy Dressing Shirt

[Claennister]

Just wondering if anyone has experience of the Easy Dressing shirt. My daughter was positively exhausted from the effort of doing up a blouse, which she will need to manage for high school. She won't manage keeping it mostly done up and putting it over her head as she gets disorientated in space putting things on. I am interested in the easy dressing range as it has fake buttons and a hook and loop closure, but to me that seems even more difficult to line up - maybe it's not. Has anyone seen them in the flesh? And do they get all gunky in the washing machine so they don't stick? I've also got a sneaking concern about bullying if someone finds out they can rip her whole shirt off with a single pull - kids are not famous for their calm reason!

I put a sharpie mark that's out of sight when done up next to the middle button and the middle buttonhole on dd's school shirts.

Put shirt on. Look down. Line up the marks. Do up the button and button hole with the marks. Do up buttons below the mark. Do up buttons above the mark.

Pants, after a certain age, the bows on the front disappear. I just drew a small sharpie bow on the front.

It's the little things you can do that make dressing so much easier.

Pants, after a certain age, the bows on the front disappear. I just drew a small sharpie bow on the front.

I got name tapes done with "Back" on them and we've trained mine (who is younger - I just clicked on here by accident) to put the back label at the behind on everything (since bloody clothes labels seem to be everywhere going these days)... that one's done wonders for her getting the right legs out of the right holes for pants and everything on vaguely the right way around.

I've done the velcro fake buttons myself on polo shirts - haven't tried it on proper shirts yet (have a couple of years to get that bit nailed down... I'm thinking I'm going to have to re-button hole every button hole to just make it a bit looser, or could you partially sew the shirt closed to like the middle button hole, get them to pull it on like a polo shirt and just velcro the top few buttons? Would mean it's all lined up ready and you've not got the risk of kids yanking it all open... requires being handy with a needle and thread though.

I don’t know about buttons, but my DD can’t stand the feel of a collar on her neck so I’ve bought collar extenders from Amazon for high school. She did need her PE teacher to help her with this and her clip on tie for the first year or so.