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As students prepare for the first day of school, store owners are seeing an influx of parents shopping for uniforms and solid-colored threads to comply with dress codes.
Jonathan Newman, manager of Liebman's Children's Clothing and School Uniforms in New Rochelle, said the number of customers more than doubles from mid-August to early September.......
......Holy Rosary School in Port Chester uses a Newark, N.J.-based company, Scholastic Uniforms, to supply students with clothes for the dress code. The company comes to the school to take student measurements.
Girls wear blouses and blue-gray plaid jumpers or skirts with shirts bearing the school logo. Boys wear navy slacks and white- collar shirts. All students wear black shoes and blue socks. And there's a gym uniform.
"I like it better and the kids look better," said Mary Norelli, principal of Holy Rosary. "It's a lot easier on parents in our neighborhood. ... In the long run, it's better for them."
Norelli said the school also provides gently used uniforms to families that cannot afford to buy new ones. She said uniforms help make the classroom a better learning environment.
"It puts everyone on the same playing field. They're not worried about designers and labels," Norelli said. "We try to keep it simple for them and for the parents.
"Children shouldn't have to live up to those designer names and 'got-to-haves,'" she said.........
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Source: Journal News
Publication Date: September 4, 2007
Reporter: Stacy A. Anderson at sanderso1@lohud.com or 914-694-5080
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