Figure 1.--Here are the prep school uniforms the children wore as costumes for "Mr. Majieka". They were the uniform at an actual prep school at the time.
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Figure 1.--Here are the prep school uniforms the children wore as costumes for "Mr. Majieka". They were the uniform at an actual prep school at the time. |
The program s set in a British preparatory school which is essentially a private school at the primary level. The children are thus costumed in the traditional school uniform that many of these schools mauntain. The boys have the traditional peaked cap with the yellow piping dividing it into sections. These caps were once ubiquitous, but by the 1980s many schools had dropped them. The girls wear boaters trimmed in the school colors. The children have a grey blazer with green and yellow stripes. Such stripped blazers used to be more common, but by the 1980s had declined in part because they were more expensive than solid color blazers. The boys wear grey school short trousers. The children are about 9 years old when the progrtam beagn and about 11 when the series ended in 1990. All the boys at school wear proper grey shorts with grey kneesocks. They do not have the kneesocks with the tops done in the school colors.The girls wear the same blazers with yellow dresses and white kneesocks. skirts. .
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