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Uniform fails in the same four or five places every year. Here is how to buy, wash and repair so a set of uniform reaches July rather than February.

The questions parents actually ask about cricket whites: what schools want, what clubs want, how many to buy and how to keep them clean.

A full school uniform checklist for primary and secondary, with honest quantities, what to buy early and what can wait until half term.

What the rules say about branded items, which uniform is fine bought cheap, which items cost more when you save on them, and how to buy second-hand well.

Which name labels actually survive the wash, where to put them, and the routine that gets lost uniform back before it ends up on the second-hand rail.

School shoes fail in three predictable ways. A fitting checklist and a straight answer for the situations parents actually turn up with.

What a school PE kit list really means, item by item: what has to be branded, what can be plain, and which bits get bought twice.