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Sandals were generally seen as both school footwear and as casual summer wear. Thus the clothes children wore with them we generally either school clothes or warm weather summer wear. This is a little confusing as school clothes in Britain were oftem much more formal than in America and other countries. Suits, blazers, and ties ere commonly worn to school and not just private schools. Thuis we se boys dessed up wearing sandals as well as boys in conmfortable summer shirts and shorts wearng sandals. And during the summer they were often worn without socks. This topic is further complicated by the fact that casual summer wear was vuewed differently in Britain than n America. As a result we see boys wearing blazers and suit jackets for casual events and even to the beach. Boys usually wore oxfords with suits when dressing up, but sandals were commonly worn with suits for more casual occasions. A further complications is that until the 60s, boys from ordinary families did not have large wardrobes. Thus suit jackets often filled in for casual jackets. And working-class boys might not have jackets. This all has changed over time. We see even the British more commonly wearing casual styles by he 1960s. And with prosperity accompamying Mrs. Tatcher's reforms, living standards in Britan that had fallen during as a result of Labour Party economic policies began to rise to continental levels. This mean that boys began acquiring the larger wardrobes that are common today.
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