SOUTH DUNEDIN MUFTI DAY RAISES $47.20 AND ONE VERY SERIOUS QUESTION ABOUT WHOSE HOODIE THAT IS

A mufti day at a South Dunedin primary school on Friday raised $47.20 for the Year 6 camp fund and, according to at least three parents at the gate, several deeper questions about the state of the household laundry cycle.

Organiser and PTA treasurer Alison Craddock, whose son turned up in what she described as "a hoodie I have genuinely never seen before in my life", said the fundraiser had been a success on paper. "We were aiming for $200. We got $47.20 and a lost property pile that's grown by about forty percent. So, mixed result."

One mother at pickup, Rewa Sillars, said her daughter had come home wearing another child's puffer jacket and no explanation. "She said they swapped at little lunch. I asked whose it was. She said 'a girl'. That was the entire briefing."

A teacher, speaking on condition she not be quoted by name because "it's a Friday and I've done my bit", said mufti day always ended the same way. "Half the school's in the wrong jumper by 3pm. The other half's in shorts because their mum forgot it was seven degrees. Nobody wins."

Ms Craddock confirmed the $47.20 would still go toward camp, though she noted the lost property bin now contained "at least $47.20 worth of unclaimed Kathmandu". The hoodie has not been identified. Its owner has not come forward.