Figure 1.-- By the mid-1960s virtually all the boys were wearing long pants. Presumably the school had dropped the school rule requiring the junior boys to wear shorts and made it optional. We only see one of the younger boys in 1965 wearing short pants. A HBC reader recalls an experience with short trousers were made optional at the school. |
By the mid-1960s virtually all the boys were wearing long pants. Presumably the school had dropped the school rule requiring the junior boys to wear shorts and made it optional. We only see one of the younger boys in 1965 wearing short pants. A HBC reader recalls an experience with short trousers at the school. He had done well on his 11-plus and had been accepted to enter FGS. He assumed that he would be wearing short trousers as he did in primary school and had seen some of the younger boys at FGS wearing shorts. The instructions from the school simply said that shorts were optional for the junior boys, leaving it up to the parents. A frien who was also going to the school. His friend's mother asked him about the uniform. He told her that the his mother was going to buy short trousers. (He thought that she would.) When he went to get his uniform, his mother, somewhat to his surprise, purchased long trousers for him. His friend's mother, however, had already purchased short trousers. His friend was most put out, because he was one of the few First Form boys to show up in short trousers. Even worse, his mother insisted that he wear the shorts once she had purchased them. The school portait also shows that some of the boys were wearing longer hair styles in the mid-1960s.
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[The 1880s]
[The 1930s]
[The 1940s]
[The 1950s]
[The 1960s]
[The 1970s]
[The 1980s]
