Evolving times

Some parts from the past used to be a constant handed down ritual from homework diaries, what stuff to take with you in your bag each day and what to leave in your locker to "knowing" Fish was on the menu for school dinners on  Friday.

You also knew if you hadn't lived with a prescriptive uniform policy before high school in state run schools you certainly would at Eleven Plus transition often everything would be spelt out even to the brand or supplier.

For boys it was always long trousers from around the mid nineteen seventies and that was very much that.

In more recent years some of that sole supplier business has dropped off and a few have added tailored short trouser options while a few have dared to add skirts.

That is an example of one for sixth form boys which would of been unthinkable when I was in the sixth in the early nineteen eighties.

For most socks haven't been changed although the kind of traditional long turn over top school socks we had seem to have drifted away from mainstream uniform suppliers while girls socks the drift away from white pelerine as they transitioned to plain white or black ones followed by tights seems to have moved towards more feminine socks with bows. 

Many suppliers of long socks have socks like these marketed as unisex but having more in common with those girls socks.

I think I'd be a bit more comfortable in today's world at school as a feminine schoolboy than I was way back then.