Haven't girls uniforms changed??

[ampere]

Just occuring to me now: I don't think girls wear dresses at secondary school anymore, do they? I'm talking about your local comp not posh public schools where they'd've wheeled the boater out by now .

I am getting the impression that:

a) summer dresses no longer happen
b) the girls wear skirts and bike shorts for PE
c)blazers are disappearing in favour of sweatshirts!

I recall when you got in proper trouble if you weren't wearing the summer dress by a certain date, where you wore an artex shirt and green gym knickers to do most indoor sport- and where most gilrs uniforms included a balzer!

The only item in that list that was cast aside too quickly was the blazer. What a handy piece of kit! All those pockets!

dd's school wears shirts and ties in winter with either a navy cardi or jumper and school blazer, and in summer they wear a short sleeve rever-collar (sort of v neck) blouse with cardi or jumper and they have to wear the school blazer too but they just carry it when it's warm and put it on for assembly or whatever.
it works quite well and she likes having a break from wearing a tie, which she has worn since about year 3. the Junior uniform was the same except no blazer and most girls wore cardigans with school badge whilst boys wore v-neck jumpers or tank tops. they wore blue and white checked dresses in junior but lots started wearing those horrible sort of nylon shiny fabric ones that zip up and are totally shapeless. I got one for DD from Woolies when she was in yr 6 because she wanted a zip up one like her friends and it was good because it was non-iron and didn't stain but god, it
looked awful. maybe it was because it was a bit long and too big and just totally sack-like
and shiny!!

I preferred her in a cotton one with a proper collar and buttons up the front with a little white belt. (not sure how she felt about that though haha)

one thing that has changed in the Junior dept. is when dd was there all the girls wore dresses in summer even though it wasn't technically compulsory, and almost all wore summer shoes, usually little white sandals with ankle socks or no socks at all, we used to get them from Clarks.

www.clarks.co.uk/find/department-is-girls/enduses-is-age72d8/product-is-20339765

but now i've seen lots of them just in the standard skirts, shirt and tie and cardi, even tights, it's obviously none of my beeswax what they wear for school but they must get so hot running around the playground!

from yr3 onwards she wore a box pleated grey skirt - NIGHTMARE TO IRON.
in year 11 she went out and came back with an
age 5-6 (yes for a 5 or 6 year old, she was 16) elasticated-waist one so that it would be "short enough not to roll up at the waist"

apparently the teachers has started asking all the girls as they left the room with questionably short skirts to lift up their jumpers to see whether they were rolled-up at the waist and if they were, down they came to the over-the-knee length they should be at.

dd's plan was to have a skirt that was short without rolling up, then there was nothing they could do.... rolls eyes!!

It depends on the school - my old comp. went informal and is now going formal again..they've brought in blazers after about 20 years of sweatshirts. The pupils voted them in!

I was there before the sweatshirts, and what we wore was in hideous colours.

But, it's amazing how sexy a teenage girls can make a blazer and skirt look - I do feel sorry for the boys who have to watch them all day.

DD3 is now 23 and when she was at high school,the girls uniform was trousersor skirts.polo shirt and sweat shirt. She could wear shorts or joggers for PE and thier wasn't a summer dress.No blazer eirther but a plain navy or black coat was supposede to be worn in the winter.

It's interesting how DCs themselves may vote to look smarter! I was a bit when I saw the DDs at my old GS out on the street. Honestly, they looked plain scruffy. Someone hadn't reminded the Head that 'blue and green should never be seen' as that is the 'new' uniform! It all evidently washed badly, too. All the navy polos were shapeless and faded, all the green logo'ed sweatshirts pilled and the blue and green tartan kilts all seemed to have uneven hemlines- all worn with no legwear (socks/tights) and those feet damaging ballet pumps!

Now, this it a top performing GS so it's not an issue of needing 'the discipline' of a correctly worn, prescribed formal uniform BUT I can't think any of those DDs felt smart or proud in their sack o'spuds uniforms!

I am not harking back to the good old days in that our uniform had a nasty, nylon V neck green gingham blouse (Sweatyyy!) BUT the green blazer (lined and yes, expensive- £35 in 1973!) was very useful and you can wear a grey skirt in a lot of ways!

Admittedly the uniform had changed from a white blouse and green tie (and boater!) not long previously....

My school (late '80s) had to change the pattern of its summer dress. British Rail (as was) had started using it on their seat covers...

blazer inside pockets are great for smuggling sweets and apparently, iPods.

and "Breastmilk.." what a hilarious screenname...and haha at the seat covers!

ShineyandNew- did you go to my school?!!

gingee- couldn't work out how you had seen my screen name before I had posted. Really stumped me, but flattered, until I read a bit further up.

Oh please...don't freak out on navy blue knicker talk..this is perversely cliched and as far as I view it the uniforms have hardly altered, except girls take their ties off sometimes in the summer. They were ruled about this at my school and the other day I heard ateacher barking orders at young ladies to take their blazers off at a given command. By heaven, etiquette persists on a totalitarian scale in some schools even now.

Ps On a slightly different tack, what some traditionalist Catholic girls now wear around churches and going to mass resembles distinctly the uniforms Hitler personally designed for his German Maidens League (BDM). I really think this is bad..the garments are very beautiful as a militaristic ensemble, but the overtones of fascism inside religious circles are quite disturbing.I don't like militarisation of faith anywhere at all. The Virgin is often dressed in very beautiful marble statues, not seen any longer in Roman girls' clothing...you can tell by the cinctures..They were not worn in the manner of the Jews. This is very interesting to students of religious and informed fashion sense. Thanks for listening.

A photo link, pls, gf10!

At last some aesthetic interest in what I have had to say! well, I could try to find drawings I made of these Marian statues in the company of a lass I later fell for and went to a convent school! she even used to talk about escaping from her uniform whilst on the train home on warm days!But never mind,she became one of my sponsors when I was recived...Sadly to recall this now, Catholicism and particularly horrible priests killed my faith off in my head long over forty odd years..they are totally confsed by brutalising moralities and would no more know a beautiful Roman fashion if ever Galatea suddenly stepped down from the plinth !Their mother cult has even destroyed whoever Our Lord's mother was in the first place..she is now a sadistic nurse telling little men what to do..it is sick. I left in complete disgust and abandoned clerical hideous black ...Never mind , I no longer am able to really hit it off with girls or women, because of what these creatures put in my mind (nuns too I am afraid, they are crazy too!I'm fifty years old and I remain frozen in archetypally lovely past that was never tainted by this evil form of Catholic morality and dogmaticism about every natural feeling and thought in the universe. It's impossible ,breeds bipolarity and physical and mentaI collapse and controversiality.Exit and fix eyes on the better and not the perfect things! humanity..I'll dig the drawings up and see what the scanner does..The other observations requiring illustration need signalling else where..the BDM is discussed at length on the net by historians...pictures are there as well as propaganda artwork of striking quality.The Nazis inhabited a superhuman universe of Platonic acidity , lucidity and various excellences and perfections...It is seductive and charmed even for the people of today..it led to a completely cultural betrayal and intellectual disaster because of the eventually disordering grandiose slant of man unable to use what gift he possssed in the beneficent service of humanity. Instead he deserted it and decided to poison even Christianity with his preoccupation with racial and mystically perceived absolutes...This has embedded itself inside the Catholic Church too and anything farther from the salvation offered by Christ cannot be imagined.Any way I need to check out if anyone has illustrated or photographed this sodality gear...they wear to church...it comes from crazed firms in the States that go on day and night about modest dress.They are utterly blinded to the madness that ensues from this...End of my own sermon !I give this dancing floor over to you now..for further approval or challenge. Thanks.

WTF?

Bloody hell

Cuckoo

O-Kaaaaaay....move along quietly everyone, nothing to see, nothing to see.....