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Here we see two boys wearing the news uniforms with the channged color scheme. Our British reader writes, "Well I hope for the boys' sake that the boys were changing from the pink trimmings to the maroon ones. I would have hated to wear pink as a boy (nearly as bad as the white kneesocks I mentioned and at least my hated check shorts were of a green/black/white pattern with no pink in sight!). Most boys I knew would have been the same - traditionally blue was a boys' colour and pink for girls and Grandmothers had to wait until they knew which gender was expected before buying the wool to knit new baby clothes although I know some boys whose Grans wanted a girl and knitted pink bonnets and so on in anticipation and when it turned out to be a boy they wore them anyhow. But being a baby it didn't really affect them until much later on when their Mum's got out the Family photo album to show to their girlfriends!" Indeed the school was changing from pink to burgundy. The school was just beginning the cjange so the boys for the remainder of the year were allowed to wear the old pink items. So you see some boys wearing the new items and other boys the old items. And quite a few boys mixing the two. All this was permitted for the year. And as Bill explains, the boys did dislike the pink. This was an all boys' boarding school with some day boys. During the day when we chatted with the boys, several boys expressed a decided dislike for the pink in their uniforms and were quite happy about the change in the color scheme.
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