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FACTS
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Many individual schools select their own uniforms.
Of the public schools with a school policy, roughly 75% have a mandatory policy, while 25% have a voluntary policy.
Ninety percent of all school uniform tops and bottoms require a specific color.
Sixty percent of all students who wear school uniforms attend schools with a policy requiring specific colors and styles for their tops and bottoms/uniform.
A typical school uniform consists of four tops and bottoms, four pairs of socks, and one accessory item such as a coat, sweater, or vest.
Roughly two-thirds of these items are purchased before the beginning of school; 10% are from last year, and the remaining will be purchased during the year.
Three uniform items cost approximately the same amount as one pair of designer jeans.
In a school uniform household, the average amount spent on school clothes is lower than that in non-uniform households.
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