"It's only that I have never had a friend before, and I don't understand the phones here.  But I can learn about both of these things, if you think it would help."

"- never had a friend, oh no! How'd that happen?"

"My adults did not think it would be helpful for my development yet."

"That's quite a thing to think, my word! I hope you can at least be Haru's friend, and we can find something to make it less boring to be such a night owl half the time."

Haru chooses this moment to yawn his way out of Ren's room. He accepts a plate of rice and eggs and puts a lot of furikake on it.

"Umm - ohayo, Haru."

"Ohayou." Yawn. "If you're going clothes shopping you need school uniforms. If you're going to go to school."

Oh no she's going to be made to wear something awful all the time even though there will be enough money for proper clothes.  "I see."

"They look more like what you had on when you showed up than like the dress the social worker brought but I don't know why you like what you were wearing before or why you didn't like the dress."

"It wasn't ladylike.  It was just - feminine."  Does a boiler suit look more like her previous outfit than that dress...?  Yes, she thinks so.

Ren pulls up the uniform requirements for Shimamoto and shows the girl example to Kennedy.

"Oh!  Oh, that's fine."  She's so relieved.

"Oh good."

"Mama, I would rather stay home, can you get my uniforms for me in the same trip or do I need to go later?"

"I can get them in the same trip, I know your sizing."

"May I please pick out another scarf to wear there, Swan-san?"

"To wear as a scarf or as a skirt? Because you can also get non-uniform clothes."

"....Um, to wear out shopping, Swan-san.  Are we going soon?"

"Oh, yes, of course, silly me, certainly you can. We can go as soon as you're ready, I've found a couple places on the map."

"That's wonderful."  And she will go locate Ren's second-quietest scarf of adequate size and thickness.  This one's at least mainly a soothing dark brown, even though it's run through with electric blue.  And does Haru have another white shirt she can borrow or will she have to compromise there.

He has more white ones. White ones are particularly cheap-and-available-in-multipacks.

Then she will take one of those, and really try not to think too hard about the underwear situation because she's about to fix it and then she'll never have to deal with this again, and assemble her outfit including horrible socks, and make sure her hair's presentable, and then she's ready to go.

They are going to Uniqlo!

Kennedy wants skirts and sensible slacks in neutrals, and white blouses!  And tights and stockings!  And underwear that is for girls but not for little girls, decoration-wise.  She has some knowledge on fabrics and quality of construction that would have her leaning pretty expensive, but she's much more willing to compromise on those than on basic style.

Uniqlo is pretty good as a place to go for basic solidly constructed clothes that will not break the bank. Ren does ask if she wants any colors but if the answer is no that's fine. They don't have the uniforms; they're going to have to stop by the school to place an order for those.