If you ask me, there should be a government-mandated spec of uniform, in a range of, say, 5 colours.
Schools can choose what colour they want to use.
All uniforms would be made to the same spec, purchasable basically anywhere (i.e. not just from the school itself), and can be mass produced by anybody. Doesn’t matter where you buy it from because they’re literally the exact same.
The issue is the branded tat that schools insist upon such as blazers, jumpers, skirts, etc. Its almost always overpriced compared to the basics from Asda and Tesco.
Ban the branded shit and you fix at least half the problem.
Its probably more a case that each school needs to work out what is reasonable to get on a budget. I’ve heard alot of schools are dropping the PE kit or its just a t-shirt for sports events. My school had a football and a rugby top. But the football top was only for the team and was kept by the school.
Agreed. The argument that it’s an equaliser is delusional and clearly made by people who didn’t have to wear 20 year old hand me downs for their uniform.
I don’t know why you think that would be the case. Uniforms were way cheaper when I was a kid in the 90s but my parents still couldn’t buy me two sets of clothes. At least when I wore my own clothes I felt like me.
If you ask me, there should be a government-mandated spec of uniform, in a range of, say, 5 colours.
Schools can choose what colour they want to use.
All uniforms would be made to the same spec, purchasable basically anywhere (i.e. not just from the school itself), and can be mass produced by anybody. Doesn’t matter where you buy it from because they’re literally the exact same.
Prices would drop like a stone.
The issue is the branded tat that schools insist upon such as blazers, jumpers, skirts, etc. Its almost always overpriced compared to the basics from Asda and Tesco.
Ban the branded shit and you fix at least half the problem.
Yes, but then how can people in the supply chain grift?
Its probably more a case that each school needs to work out what is reasonable to get on a budget. I’ve heard alot of schools are dropping the PE kit or its just a t-shirt for sports events. My school had a football and a rugby top. But the football top was only for the team and was kept by the school.
Just scrap school uniform entirely and don’t allow any obvious branding on clothes. It’s such a fucking waste of time.
Agreed. The argument that it’s an equaliser is delusional and clearly made by people who didn’t have to wear 20 year old hand me downs for their uniform.
Which wouldn’t happen if uniforms were cheaper…
Hand me downs for other clothes still exists too.
I don’t know why you think that would be the case. Uniforms were way cheaper when I was a kid in the 90s but my parents still couldn’t buy me two sets of clothes. At least when I wore my own clothes I felt like me.
Recently saw the average parent has to pay £350 for secondary school uniforms.
That is more than I spend on food for the whole of winter for myself, and more than my entire wardrobe.