If you were at primary school in the 80's did you wear plimsoles?

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Somehow got chatting about footwear at school. I asked why the kids weren't wearing plimsolls. We always wore them inside. Apparently they didn't. I thought everyone did!!?

Yes, but we called them sandshoes not plimsolls. When we got a bit older, some of us girls wore Dr Scholl wooden soled clogs as our indoor school shoes and thought we were so cool😂

For indoor PE only.

We did, but only for PE. We wore normal (Clarks!) school shoes the rest of the time.

Yes - for PE!

Haha, yes, we had plimsolls. And they weren't very good at staying on my feet during pe!

Yes - sannies in my bit of Scotland.

Only for PE

I wore them in the 00s lol.
Ds doesn't because his school expect the children to wear pe kit all day since Covid

Just for PE called ‘daps’ but I’ve been in a school within the past 20 years where they all had indoor shoes

Clarks magic steps in the classroom, plimsolls for PE.

I remember at some point we wore slippers, but I don't think that lasted very long! I only remember because I wore them to go home in once and my mum was horrified!

Yes. Called plimmies.

1990s, our school was brand new and required us to change into plimsolls/pumps

We called them daps, too. My parents said they were a lot cheaper than trainers. I don't know if that means some kids had already started wearing trainers then and plimsolls were going out?

I was at primary school in the 1960s and we only wore plimsolls for PE.

For games yes. But we called them "pumps".

Yeah, for indoor PE, we called them sannies. DS is 5 and he wears them as well.

Yes, we wore our 'pumps' for indoor PE.

At my school we had to wear plimsolls indoors so we changed our shoes every time we went in and out of school and had little cubbies to put our shoes and packed lunch boxes into. I think it was after one too many children had walked dog poo into the school.

My DS had them in reception for pe but after that we just bought trainers instead.

Black “daps” for us for PE. Think we wore them outside too though some kids had trainers!
we also had white lace up ones, though I think that was early secondary. Does anyone remember the shoe white stuff with the sponge to make them white again? If I try hard I can still smell it!

Daps here too.
Yes @Emmelina I loved the smell of that white stuff, probably highly toxic

We used to call them pumps and yes, we had to change into them as soon as we got into the building.

We had to wear them at all times when indoors. We changed into them as soon as we came in in the morning, shoes for break and lunch.

Only for infants indoor pe. Same for my kids now too...

Yes