Ireland increasingly positions itself as a liberal, agentic and entrepreneurial nation, motivated to move between and beyond binaries of Church/State, man/woman, advantaged/disadvantaged. Despite this, the uniformed body can be seen as a material assemblage that is intimately tied to a distinct national and cultural past and that continues to intersect religion, class and gender in complex ways. This chapter engages with recent public conversations around school uniforms in the Irish context. For example, in September 2020 children returned to school after months of homeschooling and public health restrictions. Some schools issued directives on the daily washing of uniforms, with parents taking to social media to voice their concerns about the financial implications of this. This was not the first time school uniforms hit the headlines, with debates often focused on affordability, but more recently on issues of sexism and gender autonomy and diversity. However, the public conversation around uniforms is typically momentary and fleeting and schools continue to enforce uniform policies and police student bodies in largely uncontested ways. This chapter identifies school uniforms as a material reality that cross cuts historical dualisms and contemporary freedoms, presenting students with a multifaceted identity quandary.