Did you go to a uniform or a non uniform school?

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Uniform

Non. Back when no uniform was new and trendy

No uniform

Uniform down to the deportment sash and privilege of a cardigan rather than a jumper in 6th form!

Uniform, at primary school everybody’s jumper had been hand knitted by granny!

I have to ask....a Deportment Sash???

No uniform at primary or secondary.
80s up to early 90s in London.
Mostly faith schools or some single sex schools had uniform in those days. Bog standard, mixed comps were all non-uniform.

How common is no uniform in the UK? I’d have thought quite rare.

I always had to wear a uniform - at various times a straw hat, a tie, a blazer, ‘regulation’ tights and underwear in a specific colour.

It was at least very easy to get dressed in the morning.

Uniform is pretty much standard now. Especially for secondary school. It wasn’t always that way.

Non uniform mostly. They introduced uniform when I was in 5th form (Year 11).

@GoingRate i had no idea!

I assumed the very vast majority of schools had always had a uniform - or a least for a very very long time.

@butterandcheese a woven tie thing that we wore around our waists, dangling at the side, in house colours.

Awarded in lower and upper third for excellent behaviour and good homework. About a quarter of us had them. According to my mother they were historically given for good deportment, tidiness and grace. Things had moved on a little by 1971 :)

Uniform, never heard of a non uniform school back then

Always uniform. Because of moving around the country I went to one infant school, 3 junior schools and 2 secondaries. Non-uniform only in 6th form. That was 80s and 90s, all standard state schools.

Until a conversation about 10 years ago I had no idea any schools in UK were non-uniform except the hippy no timetable ones you used to see in documentaries. Still seems weird to me.

Uniform

@MidnightPatrol they have mostly had uniforms since the 70's certainly in outer London it was the norm in the late 80's /80's.

Optional uniform primary school, which was a fecking stupid idea because the two girls who were made to wear the uniform by their parents were singled out and picked on.

Uniform in high school but it was a mercifully basic one and quite lax on the rules. Just black trousers/skirt, white shirt with the school tie, white polo with no tie in summer, black emblem jumper. Nice and plain, and they didn't mind black trainers, own cardigans/hoodies etc. I even got away with purple hair in year 11.

Uniform

No uniform except for sports kit. Not UK.

Primary was very relaxed and although their was a uniform that had to be worn on trips and that, they were never bothered about it. Secondary was uniform and everyone had to wear a tie, blazer optional.

Non uniform primary and uniform secondary

My son goes to a non uniform school in the uk. My other one went to a uniform school.

Primary school (1980s) no uniform.
Secondary (Started 86) vague "wear black, navy or grey pretty much anything goes" for the first 3 years. No uniform from 4th Year (Year 10 in modern terms).

Uniform. 90s London.

Our area seemed to compete for the bizarrest uniform. Even the boys trousers could be odd colours (royal blue, brown etc). Girls had coloured blouses and kilts. One school the girls had big bow ties. These were comps and grammar schools!

Uniform, it wouldn't occur to me to even ask this question to anyone I know who went to a British school.
Highlighs of both primary and secondary- no trousers for girls and in secondary utility belts and no black tights because that would make us look like prostitutes.

Uniform introduced part way through primary, but it was optional.

And lovely polyester gym knickers.