Name Labels for School. Can anybody help?

Get someone to show your son how to do it.

Septimia

I managed to get some for our GD's clothes, when our son was a single dad, which could be sewn in or could be attached with a little plastic gadget, a bit like those tags that attach price labels. They came as a set with ones for clothes and some for shoes, which stuck on. Unfortunately, I can't remember where I got them, but they were really useful.

Like this one Septimia ? www.snappytags.co.uk/shop

Amazon have some too, of several kinds.

I am pitch perfect!
Trained by my mother, I sewed and undid and wept until the stitches were perfect in size and spacing. And acceptable😡

I once hesitated to point out that Susan Davies' mum only sewed on the two ends, like a loop.

Never suggested it again😳

I sewed name labels on DC school clothes. They write child's name on with black markers for DGC 😂

Germanshepherdsmum

I would wear my reading glasses and work slowly Calli. I’ve not botched a name tape yet, possibly because my mum did most of them …

I prided myself on my neat name-tape sewing,
Germanshepherdsmum.

It's a pity no-one ever saw them except if they disappeared into lost property.

I got so sick of our youngest sports kit being taken I rallied some of the parents and we all agreed to buy large name tags and sew them on kit so they were visible.
Staff were all for this and it did seem to work for a while.
We arrived at school one Saturday morning to watch our son play cricket as we approached the pavilion we saw a lovely young Nigerian pupil wearing a cricket shirt bearing our sons name.
My husband couldn’t resist and went over shook his hand and said “ how are you son “.

Sago, dds’ school demanded that their initials be embroidered, fairly large, on the front of their PE sweatshirts - ‘to prevent ‘borrowing’’.
It did apparently work.

Witzend

*Sago*, dds’ school demanded that their initials be embroidered, fairly large, on the front of their PE sweatshirts - ‘to prevent ‘borrowing’’.
It did apparently work.

Ha! A lot of “borrowing” went on!
Our eldest didn’t put his kit in the school laundry because it was often taken by day pupils who had come to school without kit, so he used to dry it out on radiators after a game and play in it 😬.
It was so hard it was like body armour and the smell was awful!

Retirement homes where residents clothes need to be labelled, recommend snap on tags - eg. Snappy Tags or Attach-a-Tag. No sewing involved.

My DD's Sports kit's always went missing and when I went to the school supply shop I knew one of the ladies who helped she called me "Mrs Red Sports Knickers'. Everything was named as the school asked. I got so fed up that I took one DD to an old-fashioned shop and bought her an artex shirt like I had had at school three sizes too big. I wrote her name in large capital letters in marker pen along the collar line.
She was still wearing it in the 6th form as was DD2 when I wrote her name in marker pen across the bottom of her "Red Sports Knickers".

Sago, this sounds like a good idea!
What were the labels and where on the clothing did you sew them onto? It's a fairly expensive rugby kit so want to make sure I don't have to buy it again...

Callistemon21

It has to be done properly Germanshepherdsmum!

No botched jobs.

Yes, but do you sew the white names on with white thread even though the material is grey or do you use grey thread on a white label? A next-door neighbour has genuinely asked me this question. I told her to use the colour that matched the outer garment.
Oh, dear was her reply and when I went round there was a pile of clothes with the labels sewn on by machine with white thread some of which were knee socks.!!!

Georgesgran

Is this post genuine?

If so, just stab a few stitches in - it’s not the GB sewing bee!

It's not rocket science........just a few stitches each end of the name label. Why not get your son involved too? Valuable lifeskill to be able to sew.

I bought Iron on name tag's for my children to start nursery, I still some left and they still work, my children are grown ups now,

Come on Sophie you're having a laugh aren't you 🤣

#windup

Fold the label in the middle short end to short end to make a loop.
Use double thread and knot the end.
Three stitches kind of on top of each other.
Another three tiny stitches.
Cut thread.
Done.

c'mon - you just don't want to be bothered do you?

(alternatively, teach him to do it himself in the name of equality)

sophiehawth

*Sago*, this sounds like a good idea!
What were the labels and where on the clothing did you sew them onto? It's a fairly expensive rugby kit so want to make sure I don't have to buy it again...

The good old Cash’s name tapes, they are an institution.
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Didn’t even do that for my much loved dil! Sometimes you just just have to bite the bullet and get on with it.

I sewed one on the bottom right of all kit, I also stitched a name tape on the inside seam of each item as some of the more devious pupils would unpick name tapes.

I hate sewing!!!! Stems from a bully of a needlework teacher in school. However even I managed to sew in name tapes!!

The usual place is the inside of the coller and the waistband of shorts, top of socks. Do try the loop method where you only sew once for each tag.
Or you could use staples as long as the scratchy teeth were on the outside of the garment? Mind you, a determined thief would unpick most tags in a minute.
As a matter of interest, how much an hour would you be prepared to pay me if I offered to do it for you?

I am thinking of charging grandchildren 50p for every Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Brownies badge that I have to sew on. I did try to teach their parents how to sew. Anyone else a total failure in this department.

If your son is old enough to play rugby, he is old enough to either sew on his own name tapes, or iron on the iron-on type!

There is probably a YouTube video telling you how to do it.

Or simply just write his name on the clothes with and permament marker.

saltnshake

I am thinking of charging grandchildren 50p for every Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Brownies badge that I have to sew on. I did try to teach their parents how to sew. Anyone else a total failure in this department.

If they sew on their own badges they may earn a Handicrafts Badge if anything like that still exists!