The cost of a suit, tie and PE kit is simply too much for many parents. Something practical, sustainable and affordable shouldn’t be too much to ask
Something big is about to happen to households across England. Exhausted parents at the playground, wild-eyed as they respond to work emails while their kids charge past with anarchic abandon, gather their final ounces of energy. “Liberation day is coming,” they whisper. Finally, after six weeks of summer holidays, the kids are going back to school.
But my own heady excitement at regaining some semblance of routine come September has been derailed by an adjacent exercise: procuring my daughter’s first school uniform. Call me curmudgeonly, but there’s few things I resent more than spending more than £300 to dress my four-year-old in a suit and tie.
Lucy Pasha-Robinson is an assistant editor on Guardian Opinion
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