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English 1960s School Uniform Trends: Types of School
English 1960s School Uniform Trends: Types of Schools--Private Schools
Figure 1.--This school is unidentified. It may be Mazyfiekd School. All we know for sure was that it was taken in 1962 and it was located in Horley om Sussex. We are not sure if it is a preo or pre-prep school. It does sshow many of the standard schopol uniform items popularized by the private schools. We suspect it is a pre-prep school because of the mixed genders. We do not see any headwear, but note the blazers, ties, grey and white shirts, short pants, and sandals. Knee socks were mire common thsn suggested here. Ankle socks were worn mostly by yomger boys and only during the summer. Note that two boys are wearing white soivks. That would have neen commonly only at pre-pteps. While sivcks were much more common for girls.
School uniform garments were primarily developed in the private sector. Uniforms at first were were only required in private schools. The major exception was the grammar schools an kind of school midway between the state and private sector. The grammar schools adopted the curriuculum, methods, and uniforms of the public (elite private secondary boarding) schools. The public schools had century long origins. The preparatory schools are much more recent origins dating to the 19th century. And out of this came the peaked caps, boaters, blazers, ties, Eton collars, trimmed sweaters, and trimmed knee socks. The shortpants were more recent and more of a popular fashion as were chool sandals. These were all popular styles worn at the prepschools and commonly the younger boys at the public schools. The blazers could ber very colorful. Some schools had grey suits. This all varied from school to school. Short pants were very common, usually grey to comtrast with the coloful blazers. The socks were also usually grey. School sandals were very common for the younger boys. The styles can be seen to various degrees influencing school wear iun the state schools. Private schools for several centuries were foir boys. Only in the 19th century did we begin to see giurls' schools. And theu adopminated the styles worn by the boys except for caps and pants.
