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School Uniforms Online – The quicker way to Shop

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A good London schoolwear supplier doesn’t just sell school clothes. They give you peace of mind and the knowledge that purchasing school uniforms doesn’t have to lead to days of searching the high street for every little item your child needs – often with the child in tow.

Shopping for clothes online has lots of benefits. For starters, when you buy online – anything, whether it’s clothes, books or computer hardware – you tend to see better prices. That’s because if you buy from a store you’re also paying for their overheads: rent, utilities, staffing costs and so on. Not only that but they’re likely to be situated somewhere pricey, on the high street where footfall is higher and shops are more competitive. With an online schoolwear supplier, it doesn’t matter where they are selling from. You place your order and it’s sent to your door.

Convenience is another obvious benefit. It’s a lot simpler and less effort to do your shopping on the web than it is to find the time to travel to the shops and physically search for what you want. You can buy what you want in your lunch hour at work or in the evenings, rather than take a day to get your child kitted out for next term. It also doesn’t matter when you shop – the internet doesn’t have opening hours.

One potential sticking point is sizing, though this doesn’t have to be an insurmountable problem. Take careful measurements and use existing clothes to check what you need and you should be able to order school clothes that fit perfectly without any trouble. On the off-chance that there is a problem, you can just return them and have them switched for a different size. Once you have used the same supplier once, you will have a much better idea of how their clothes fit, so it will get easier and easier as time goes on.

A worthwhile London schoolwear supplier will have more than just school clothes. You can treat it like a one stop shop, finding everything that your child needs – stationary and calculators, shoes for clubs and sports as well as school uniforms. Some will even offer a school delivery service, so even if you leave things until the very last minute you can still make sure the required items will be waiting for them when they arrive at the school gates.

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School uniforms given a funky twist at a New Zealand school

Clothing, Education, Schools

Looking for a London schoolwear supplier can be a tiresome chore, but imagine if you had to incorporate a search for the perfect nose ring for your son into looking for the standard shirts and P.E kit.  This may be the reality for parents at a large New Plymouth high school, where facial piercings have just been declared as part of the school uniforms.  The school clothes policy has changed from one allowing students one stud earring in each ear, the rule used by most schools in the area and in the UK. School board chairman Darren Muggeridge said students would now be allowed one lip and one nose piercing.

He described the new rule as a compromise in a tricky area.  For the school governors, it is a way of meeting the students half way.  They feel that making sure that there are rules around what is worn and where they are worn will keep a sense of order without depriving the pupils of their rights to self-expression.  The school had previously been extremely strict around school uniforms, but it had taken more time and effort than expected to deal with piercings. The principal of the country’s biggest school, Rangitoto College, said he was seeing demand for a more conservative dress code.  He feels a lot of pressure coming from that direction, as part of the pressure on teenagers to succeed academically.

The atmosphere in New Plymouth is perhaps rather more relaxed than in Auckland, but still, the introduction of the new policy followed a long running debate.  Teachers and governors appreciate that it may not satisfy all parents, but they feel that policing facial piercings is no longer worth the time and effort that the school has been forced to invest in it.  In the end it was a case of deciding that there were more important things for the school to be thinking about.  Although facial piercings are often associated with teenage rebellion and the punk look, it is worth remembering that some studs can be the size of a tiny pin, and the level of invisibility is such that they can hardly be seen as intrusive.

It is probably safe to assume that your London schoolwear supplier will not stock nose studs, however unobtrusive they might be.  This case does raise important issues where school clothes are concerned.  Whilst many experts agree on the benefits of school uniforms which make children look smarter and help even out differences between them, it is also worth questioning how much effort schools should be forced to go to in order to control the appearance of their students.

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