Did anyone else who went to primary school in the mid-80s have to do PE in their vest and pants?

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I was telling my colleagues who are in their twenties about it and they looked at me like this: 🙄

Did anyone else experience this? Or was my school slightly strange?

I started school in 1996 and I did oe in my vest and pants in infants school

yes our vest and navy gym knickers if you forgot those you had to gym in your Normal knickers then we had to line up in the corridor and all the lads would point and laugh at us it was very brutal in the 70s

Yes, vest and knicks in infants. T-shirt and big navy gym knickers in juniors. "Normal" PE kit in high school (pleated skirt, airtex T-shirt). Am mid-40s.

I worked in a school in 91 and the kids did PE in pants and vests.

Yes. No Pe kit til secondary school, that would have been 87/88.

Yes in infants and juniors, at secondary school children who forgot their PE kit were sent to the lost property box!

By the time I started secondary school I did my own washing and ironing to make sure my feckless mother didn’t let me down like she did when I was younger!

It primary school there were many occasions when I did PE in care bear or my little pony underwear! It was absolutely humiliating!

Yes in the juniors, and I vividly remember a male teacher telling us all it was so hot we should take our vests off and we did PE in just our pants! I look back in horror now!

In 80s we did PE in our uniform, full buttoned up shirt, pinafore and black shoes. We had no changing facilities and no one ever objected to it. I remember for a dance and gymnastics display we got thick navy knickers and vests, I suspect standard issue ones that are described here. Strange but no different to a leotard really and much cheaper. The PE in full uniform strikes me as stranger to be honest.

So true. Fire bell went in a gym lesson when I was 12 or so. School knickers and aertex shirt. Outside we went in February. Different world.

Yes, in infant school in the mid to late 80s.

Early Sixties. Junior School. Sane for all pupild

But it was so cold. My mother always made sure l wore to thick grey knickers on PE days.

BLESS😻

In the 70s yes. By the 80s I was in secondary and we got thick blue PE pants to go over our pants.
We also had pe skirts, but some girls always forgot them and went out in just the pe pants.

Yes, in infant school in the 80s and 90s. Even outside on the playground! We wore shorts and a tshirt for sports day.

Haha, word for word this was us too! We always wondered when we might get to use “the apparatus” again after our single solitary lesson. Sadly, it was not to be. Mind you, we did have to make up routines on it and perform them for the rest of the class the one time we used it. I wasn’t fond of that part!

I did 😞 my sister lost her pe kit and took mine I found it on her peg after the humiliating experience. She laughed all the way home.

I’m 50 and yes it was perfectly normal then to do or (indoor) in vest and pants if you didn’t have your kit. Now as a teacher y2/3 upwards make an issue of changing together in the same room. We don’t generally do it as they come in in PE kits and wear them for the day but children’s bodies haven’t changed. Attitudes have changed. Not sure if that’s a positive or a negative really.

There used to be a perv on mumsnet who posted constantly about being made to do PE in bra and pants at secondary school, which is obviously a bit different from wearing underwear at Infant School and Aertex top and PE knickers worn over underwear at Secondary that many remember

Yes in the 1980s. Don't remember ever having pe kit in infants. Only in juniors when we did more outside.

Only if we forgot our PE kit

There was always one kid in vest, pants and bare feet

Did all school halls have one of those pull put wooden frames that sat flat against the wall and never ever ever used?

sometimes we used a bench and a spring board or quoits and bean bags

I dont remember doing PE in the juniors. Only infants

I recall we did this in primary school (90s) if we forgot our PE kit or maybe it was just a threat.

remember this?

I’m 38 and we did PE in vest and pants. Then we had T-shirt and shorts but if you forgot your kit up until year 6 we had to do it in vest and pants

Primary in the 90’s - ‘95/96 reception maybe year 1
if you don’t bring PE clothes knickers and vest was the alternative