My kid did that the other day - went to her swimming lesson in a SKIRT with no knickers :eek:
Would seem to me to be the best option, but I’m not a parent. I was the child of a toxic parent though who thought it perfectly fine to send me to school in a hand-me-down from one of my brothers. This was in the days when clothes were gender specific, and resulted in my being bullied badly at school for being a boy pretending to be a girl. Not that my mother gave a damn about such things. I ‘accidentally’ lost the coat one day. My mother was about to skin me alive, but my father talked her down and somehow I became the owner of a much nicer girl’s coat that never left my sight, because it was mine I chose it and it belonged to me and not someone else.
Not that I’m suggesting the OP is a horrible parent…
Mommie, is that you?
This is also true. Or someone else owns a coat that looks like his and they took it by mistake. Or, as was the case with a kid I knew, he swapped it for a gameboy game.
My mother tried a similar tactic (given that we lived in an area where being sent to school sans coat could result in hypothermia) but when she realised it meant I’d not be able to attend school, she back tracked.