Uefascal said:
No offence mate but it's you what is talking garbage! All I can say is you never got dissed etc for how you had your Tie or worse wearing a Shirt from say the George Range at Asda for School as opposed to a BHS or even a Ben Sherman one. I sure have known a few in this boat, until you can show sympathy to these guy's I feel you are out of your depth here mate - sorry.
My whole school life my uniforms came from second hand stores, or the school store where they sold subsidised uniforms to families who couldn't afford it properly.
If I was forced to wear my outside clothes, they would have come from "The Sack"... a huge bag of clothing my parents picked up every few years from jumble sales which consisted of every piece of outside clothing other than birthday or christmas presents. As a child, and a teenager until I earned my own money, I had to chose between gifts or non uniform, new, clothing.
I have more sympathy and knowledge of not being able to afford new clothing than most people, however, uniforms should combat that by providing a situation where all clothing worn by students is identical and not subject to trends, or fashion.