Certainly no showers available in my girls school in the 60s. We wore navy shorts and aertex shirts for PE. There was never enough time to change back into our uniforms after PE, but we weren’t allowed to go to our next class in PE kit. I did actually perfect a technique to keep my school shirt and skirt on, and somehow get the shorts and top on over my uniform without it showing! All I had to do after PE was to whip off the kit, roll down my shirt sleeves and shake out my no doubt incredibly creased skirt. Worked well for a while, until one lesson when I was upside down on the pommel horse, and my suspenders fell out and into view! ( they were to keep up the horrid 60 denier flesh coloured stockings with seams, that were part of the winter uniform)
An American on Trip Advisor today, asking about dress etiquette, has wondered if wind pants are suitable attire. Americans are so technologically advanced. I wonder if there’s a video.
In my lightly soiled imagination you have a really really big pair of binoculars. I'm sad to miss out on the flampageotic conniptions though. They sound like they'd liven the place up no end.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
At my first school at sports day we had to tuck our summer dresses into our knickers for the high jump, I think I have a photo somewhere. I said to OH today that the electrician is wearing the same named pants as you wear, does he, he said, I wouldn't know, no I replied, I noticed straight away!
Was just reminded of this thread and I have to say, the American school clothes and PE experience circa 1985-1992 was very drastically different. We didn't have any of these rules or a uniform at all! These rules seem so bizarre to me.
The only thing I remember is that you couldn't wear black-soled shoes in the gym because they would mark the floor, and if you wore a t-shirt in the pool over your swimsuit it couldn't be too oversized for safety reasons. You couldn't wear anything that could be construed as gang colours, with swear words printed on it, or too bare and overtly sexy, but beyond that everyone wore whatever the heck they wanted to. My favourite outfit for a while was a pair of black jeans cut off at the knee worn with two pairs of tights (some bright colour with black fishnets over the top), one of a number of band t-shirts (Dead Kennedys and The Cure were favourites), combat boots, and way too much black eyeliner.
Though these days I think I could use some knickers with a pocket in them. Would be a handy place to hide my passport when travelling.
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All I had to do after PE was to whip off the kit, roll down my shirt sleeves and shake out my no doubt incredibly creased skirt. Worked well for a while, until one lesson when I was upside down on the pommel horse, and my suspenders fell out and into view! ( they were to keep up the horrid 60 denier flesh coloured stockings with seams, that were part of the winter uniform)
I said to OH today that the electrician is wearing the same named pants as you wear, does he, he said, I wouldn't know, no I replied, I noticed straight away!
C'mon, publish and be damned.... gardeners are made of hardy stuff... nature is their home - how could anything shock them?
The only thing I remember is that you couldn't wear black-soled shoes in the gym because they would mark the floor, and if you wore a t-shirt in the pool over your swimsuit it couldn't be too oversized for safety reasons. You couldn't wear anything that could be construed as gang colours, with swear words printed on it, or too bare and overtly sexy, but beyond that everyone wore whatever the heck they wanted to. My favourite outfit for a while was a pair of black jeans cut off at the knee worn with two pairs of tights (some bright colour with black fishnets over the top), one of a number of band t-shirts (Dead Kennedys and The Cure were favourites), combat boots, and way too much black eyeliner.
Though these days I think I could use some knickers with a pocket in them. Would be a handy place to hide my passport when travelling.