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Some HBC readers have provided brief comments about their school days. These do no really justify an entire new page, but they certainly are worth noteing. Here re the comments we gave recdived or noted about the 1940s. Olease let us known if you have found interexting items to add here.
I went to preparatory school in England during 1949. We wore grey socks that came up over the calf and they were turned down with a separate black elastic band under the turn-down so that they would stay up. This band did not show but you always were afraid of loosing them as they could be ‘fired’ at other boys. The band had to be sewn by hand. These socks were knitted and made of wool so that there was no other way of keeping the socks up. Wool had no natural support in it.
The top part that was turned down ‘ with the inside out’ showed three bands which were the school colours. This meant that the sock had to be knitted rather specially as the top changed from being the outside to being the inside where the elastic began. If you didn’t turn the sock down you saw some ugly backside of the colours.
It was thus not possible to wear the sock without being turned down as the upper part would then look as though the inside were showing. Apart from that there was no other way of keeping them up. We were never allowed to wear the sock round the ankle.
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