Figure 1.-- This school had a casual uniform for the summer term, The boy here is waiting for his mum to pick him up in the afternoon. This was the summer term uniform at the school. During the other terms the boys wore ties and blazers. |
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The expectations concerning uniform for the day boys going home in the afternoon vary from school to school. We notice a rabge of rules and attitudes. At many schools with formal uniforms, when going home the children are expected to put on the full uniform including ties and blazers and caps (if the school still required them) that they arrived wearing. Caps and blazers are items that are not commonly worn once at school. Schools vary as to the ties. Sometimes even ties were dispensed with while at school. Some schools also had footwear rules. The children may wear sandals at school, but wear shoes when going home. Some schools are quite strict about the children being properly turned out at the end of the day. This is more complicated with the younger children who may need a little help, especially with their ties. Other schools are more relaxed about this and allowed the children to go home without ties and blazers. Or they did not insist that the children were so perfevtly turned out when returning home. Footwear in particular varied, in part because many younger boys did sports in the afternoon. Here there can be seasonal differences. Some schools have formal uniforms during the fall and winter term, but more relaxed, informal uniform during the warmer summer term.
The expectations concerning uniform for the day boys going home in the afternoon vary from school to school. We notice a rabge of rules and attitudes. At many schools with formal uniforms, when going home the children are expected to put on the full uniform including ties and blazers and caps (if the school still required them) that they arrived wearing. Caps and blazers are items that are not commonly worn once at school. Schools vary as to the ties. Sometimes even ties were dispensed with while at school. Some schools also had footwear rules. The children may wear sandals at school, but wear shoes when going home. Some schools are quite strict about the children being properly turned out at the end of the day. This is more complicated with the younger children who may need a little help, especially with their ties.
Other schools are more relaxed about this and allowed the children to go home without their ties and blazers. As far as we can tell, this was a minority of schools. Or the school did not insist that the children were so perfectly turned out when returning home. The children might not have to put their blazers on when returning home. Here a factor was it was just a matter of jumping into the cars where mum was awaiting them. The boys might not be required to put their ties back on if they took them off during the day. Of course many schools had the boys wear their ties during the day. After school, they rarely took them off, presumsbly because they were so used to wrearing them. Footwear in particular varied, in part because many younger boys did sports in the afternoon. So we see boys wearing sneakers in the afternoon or as the British say, trainers. Some schools had the boys wear sandals during the day, but the smeakers were then ckept at school. At other schools they did not change and the sandals were wotn to school as well.
Here there can be seasonal differences. Some schools have formal uniforms during the fall and winter term, but more relaxed, informal uniform during the warmer summer term. Schools might drop the blazer or adopt short-slevved skeeves worn with open collars without ties. In this case the children came to school more informally dressed and of course left the same way. Here for example we see a school with a casual uniform for the summer term (figure 1), The boy is waiting for his mum to pick him up in the afternoon. This was the summer term uniform at the school. During the other terms the boys wore ties and blazers.
