Australian School Uniform Shirts: Patterns

Figure 1.--Australian school shirts traditionally were either grey or white. A greater variety of colors began to appear in the 1970s. We also notice some patterened shirts--always plaid. At this state school in the 1980s boys wore plaid shorts matching the girls' dresses and skirts.
Most school uniform shirts are solid colors. Grey shirts were the most common and white for special occassions. A much wider range of colors began to appear in the 1970s-but mostly still solid colors. We have noted a few schools with patterened shirts, commonly a plaid pattern matching the skirts and dresses worn by the girls. The pattern was always used only for boys' shirts, never for the pants. The only pattern we have noted has been plaid. I'm not sure how common these patterned shirts were. Most images show boys wearing solid color shirts. At the school seen here, the plaid shirts were the summer uniform. During the winter, boys wore heavier grey shirts (figure 1). I'm not sure how common this convention was.









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