to suggest that that further to the school uniform thread, we have a competition to see who can link to the worsy school uniform

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Inertia. www.christs-hospital.org.uk/current-parents/uniform/ I'd assume so as there is no mention of other uniform on their uniform page

IshallWearMidnight and livinginwonderland - I too went to school in a long kilt. Black Watch?

I see kids from this place on my way to work:

www.eatonsquareschool.com/site/

They wear full adult sized flat caps in lurid blue perched on their tiny heads. It's child abuse.

TheOldestCat - school's own tartan (although when I was there it was a normal knee length kilt, they changed it some years after I left to knee length). Can't believe there's more than one school who thinks an ankle length kilt it in any way practical .

Wow. This really is a different world- breeches, Boarding Houses, Tuck Shops, Matrons.

Mustard seems to feature prominently in many of these uniforms. Though I'm quite taken by the chunky-knit mustard jumpers- very useful for any Aberdeen-based sea-fishing field trips. Cravats and knickerbockers maybe less practical in those circumstances.

Notfluffy I wonder whether they've noticed the little boy in the middle who has gone off-message with his untucked shirt and loose tie?

Thank you, Bearleigh! I'd just been googling to try and remember which school that was with the hideous blue caps. (I used to work just around the corner, too.) The caps look like something out of the Jocks and the Geordies.

What are the things we all want for our sons in a school?

I want mine to have a hat patterned like a roulette wheel please!

Sorry don't know how to link but StoodleyKnowle girls wear a lovely selection of ankle length kilts.

stripy blazers i think this one is pretty bad but you need to scroll down to see the blazers.

Goodness meala it makes me think of Butlins.

Cripes meala they are bad!

Meala, those are headache inducing.

I love the Hill House ones, they are practical though, the children can go straight from sports field to classroom. So sweaty as well.

Are these uniforms another form of cruelty?

livinginwonderland - I was just about to post ankle length kilts - did we go to the same school? G?

nope, mine began with a C! they were still horrendeous though, and HORRIBLE to wear in summer. ughh. it makes me feel better to know other schools were just as insane!

I quite like the Hill House uniforms. They look quite comfy and practical.

My mum went to Christ's Hospital, in the 1940s or thereabouts.

I think then it was a charity school / for families on low incomes, not sure if it still is. I will ask her if she remembers what she wore - it may be that their uniform is evolving, but several hundred years behind the rest of us - she might have gone there dressed as Boudicca or something

I rather like the old fashioned uniforms. Perhaps the new academies will start wearing them and we will be able to get them in Asda.

The interesting bit about the Christ's Hospital uniform is 'The distinctive uniform of Christ?s Hospital is provided free to all pupils' - makes a change from having to visit Harrod's

Talking of stripey blazers, I think these look a bit chain gang. www.deepdeneschool.com/.

Another one here who had a truly hideous uniform in the 1970s - so no link available.

When the school was founded as a secondary modern back in the early 1960s it had had a nice traditional style of uniform. But by the time I got there it had become a comprehensive and decided to mark its new modern status and the spirit of the 1970s by redesigning the uniform for the girls.

Has anyone encountered needlecord? It is a nasty synthetic material that is meant to look like fine cordouroy but is really shiny and nylon-y. Our uniform was made entirely out of this and was bright royal blue. The only part that wasn't royal blue was the blouse which was white and blue floral and pure nylon.

Because it was only stocked by one shop and was relatively expensive most people just had the one blouse.One nylon blouse worn all week ladies...

Here is my old school's uniform. Sadly they got rid of the beret's and shorts for junior boys before I started, but they've kept them in the prep. We got plenty of slagging from other schools for those skirts, but they were roasty toasty in our baltic NI winters.

Another local school has the aforementioned humbug blazer, teamed with a slate grey shirt. Boke.

Ursuline blazer

This blazer looks worse on - I won a place here and refused to go as an 11yo simply because I couldn't bring myself to wear the blazer!

TheCraicDealer - it's the combination of the striped blazer and striped tie that is so ... um ... distinctive.

www.farnborough-hill.org.uk/Default/aboutUs/gallery.aspx

In winter I see all the girls from here walking past in sporting their stripey blazers, which seem to have every shade of green in them