Fashions when you were at school

Shiny patent lace up black shoes. Colourful Indian type rope bags. Long heavy cardigans, I mean almost as long as the skirt underneath.

Everything I made in needlework was hideous!
But the sewing teacher was quite cool, and we were allowed to make miniskirts in physcodelic (can’t spell that, sorry!) fabrics.

Our senior mistress used to sit in the front row of seats in the hall and make us parade across the stage which was about 5’ higher. If she could see our knickers we had to lower our skirts. Always thought what a strange thing to do looking up girls skirts??? Wouldn’t happen these days!!

I remember those gondola baskets! And we all begged to make dirndl skirts in needlework because they were very much the fashion then. Mine was shocking - like everything else I sewed. I was glad to leave and go to college - no uniform and complete sartorial freedom! The only thing that tied us all together was a college scarf.

BigBertha1
Oh yes, the Dr Scholls, they were absolute must haves!
The baskets were those banana shaped ones.
Did we go to the same school?

Sara1954! Those popsocks...I’d forgotten them! How about the plastic pull-ups that you could wear with shoes to mimic gogo boots.

Same skirt thing for us. We had a thing for baskets instead if school bags and Dr Scholls sandals in summer

Black stockings were very ‘in’, to be superseded by black tights.

Our senior mistress made us kneel down to measure how short our skirts were, only so much hemline off the floor was allowed.

She is still alive, well into her 90’s. Don’t know what she makes of the uniforms nowadays.

For some reason we went through a phase of wearing multi coloured pop socks, I had some orange ones, and some violet ones, I’m not sure how we got away with it!

Me too, Fanny. They used to give you a detention if you didn’t wear your gloves. White in Summer, navy in winter. Imagine that these days.

They make school skirts now that discourage that practice.
They are made with something about the waistband that makes it very uncomfortable it it's folded over - little spikes or something
We used to wear our ties 'backwards' so that the skinny bit was forefront.
I used to wear band t-shirts under my shirt backwards so that you could see the picture.
My 'uniform' was a disgrace - I took all manner of liberties. I was a wild child in my youth!