English School Uniforms: Literary notes
Norman, Philip: Norman in the Skaters' Waltz (1979) wrote:
He dressed himself in a few seconds, struggling on his vest, shirt and
pullover in one-thick armed garment still harbouring in its grey folds the warmth of
yesterday's sun. He put on the underpants whose yellowness, while changing
for PT, he tried to hide, and the faded grey short trousers, and long grey socks,
with the school colors around the tops which no longer pulled up high
enough, folding them over black elastic garters, each on the wrong place on
his leg. He put on the tie, diagnally stripped in blue, red, and gold,
which he has had since he was in the junior school, and which was now to
small, and torn at the broad end so that a lkength of canvas stuff hung
out.
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