so who had the naffest school uniform then?

[Blandmum]

Ours wasn't that bad, but I hated it at the time.

Pale blue blouse, dark blu skirt, naff marron and yellow and blu e stripped tie

Boys in carcoal gray trousers an djacket with pale gray shirt, same crappy tie

Ours was bottle green pleated skirt, white shirt, bottle green v-neck jumper. Dark green gaberdine. Black outdoor shoes to be changed to black or green slippers for indoors.

Money was tight in our house so I had a 2nd -hand uniform - all very faded. The skirt was too short after first 2 years but parents bought me cheapo NON-pleated skirt - I kept getting in trouble till school finally realised that it wasn't actually MY fault. And I always had brown slippers for some reason.

How about an itchy brown and yellow tweed cloak (a la Sherlock Holmes)? The school was in a town in West Sussex which was a bit rough and I'm amazed more of us didn't get beaten up, swanning around in our cloaks!! Perhaps the locals just felt sorry for us.
On the plus side, by making a hole in the hem, you could let your hamster run around the bottom of the cloak, which brightened up church no end.

hey, greensleeves, we had lindsay tartan kilts too. nice............

where was your school hoxtonchick??

york. you?

Budababe - bottle green here too. There was also a little black tie that was kicked out the year I started thank goodness. The Blazer was green with yellow ribbon trim. Lovely.

We had a red, blue and silver deck chair striped blazer and boaters! Magnets for abuse when we skived off into town (not that we wore the boaters then obviously).

acres of mid-grey wool with occasional flashes of bottle green. took me years to wear grey again

lucy5, did you go to primary school in West Kent? I'm sure I remember those hats with tassles (didn't go there though)

staffs

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charliegirl - we had berets for our junior school too. I hated mine so much that when I finally left, my mother let me set fire to it. Hooray!

Our senior school summer uniform was made out of a blue plaid tablecloth.

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Lol at no garters=no breakfast!

We had a grey tweed suit with turnups on the trousers and a cap. In the Summer term, dark blazer and grey trousers.

Please let me win, please.

Brown skirt, brown sweater, green and blue check blouse. PE brown again - netball skirt, massive gym knickers. How could anyone come up with that and think it was a good idea???

And in a comp, too!

Navy skirts (Below the knee only!) Yellow (puke coloured) blouse, and navy jumper....knee-high socks only and brown or black shoes...not sandals.

With ours, it was the actual polyester - or rather more like polythene - fabric of our pale blue and white blouses, which only had to touch a adolescent female body to start reeking. The record-breaking heatwave of 1977 was a particularly - ahem - piquant illustration of its niffy qualities.

Think mine was the same as Nooka's sisters - maroon all over (mostly faded to a nasty pink) with a wonderfully clashing red and white tie.
The worst thing was the raincoat - the hood had been designed to wear over a hat and it was enormous.
The thing I miss most were the summer dresses - pink and white striped nurse type, So comfy when it was really hot!

Missed the whole hats/tunics thing by about a year, but there was a fad for wearing long black socks rather than tights for a while. There used to be special leather school purses with a shoulder strap too.

They wear sweatshirts and trousers now - looks crap and still nasty maroon colour.

But did you have the fat tie/thin tie thing? When I first started secondary school, it was very cool to have a really fat tie, and tie it so there was the minimum end of tie poking out of the knot. By the time I left, it was thin ties all the way, and you had to tie them back to front, and tuck the wide end into your shirt.

ha! you see
School uniform is VILE

I think our school uniform was dreamt up by some sort of fetishist! We had white blouses, ties in winter but not in summer, grey blazers, grey hats, knee length grey skirts with over the knee white socks! We had to wear these really odd shoes too, sort of a ballet-style pump that left most of the top of your foot exposed. This was bad enough, but it was PE and games that were really strange!

Outside we had white aertexes for hockey, lacrosse and most things (great colour when it rained!), with naff grey gym skirts. White knee socks rounded this off. Inside for gymnastics etc all we were allowed was a skimpy white vest and house colou gym knickers, which for me meant white. Bare feet we absolutely obligatory at all times. We wore the same get-up for cross country running. This usually meant slogging through thick, deep mud, in a rainstorm, in what was basically a white cotton outfit that looked like a swimsuit. Nice!

My school uniform was the worst, honest! Itchy blue hairy tweed skirts were bad enough but over the top when we were going outside we had to wear bright pink floor-length wool cloaks. i kid you not!

My first secondary school was OK - blue shirts and grey everything else.

The second had boaters/berets (depending on season) with jaunty yellow, grey and white ribbons; yellow, grey & white striped blazers with yellow blouses. Grey skirts/jumpers. Regulation coats. Mistress at the gate to check coats done up, socks pulled up and hats on (and woe betide anyone in town spotted by a teacher without hats etc)

black gym knickers (with yellow stripe) and yellow aertex for sport...

Ours involved boaters and white cotton gloves in the summer and brown leather gloves and blue fetl hats shaped like half an acorn with thistle tassles hanging down, for the winter.