Figure 1.--The convention at this school was corduroy jackets and short pants for everyday school wear, but for special occasions they had blazers worn with non-corduroy short and long trousers.
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Figure 1.--The convention at this school was corduroy jackets and short pants for everyday school wear, but for special occasions they had blazers worn with non-corduroy short and long trousers. |
Corduroy from the beginning had the image as casual boys' wear. Schools adopting corduroy garments had several options. Conventions thus varied from school to school. Many schools adopted cord shorts with that image in mind. By the 1950s, some schools had begin to introduce a more informal approach to school uniform that for the first half of the century had ben very formal, even for the younger children. In some cases cord shorts were the every day school uniform and the boys had blazers and grey dress shorts for more formal occasions. This was especially true of schools wher cord jackets were also worn. Some schools, however, used the cord shorts just vas flannel or Terryln shorts and wore their blazers with them.
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