School shoes

Oh good! [yawn] emoticon.

I have agreed to buy him new ones after half term the cheap shoe zone ones

Why groan Rose my reaction is 'half term yippee!' no school runs or GC. Love them to bits but need a break occasionally

Perhaps the opposite for you - you have you GC over holidays as their parents work???

'This name derived, according to Nicholette Jones' book The Plimsoll Sensation, because the coloured horizontal band joining the upper to the sole resembled the Plimsoll line on a ship's hull, or because, just like the Plimsoll line on a ship, if water got above the line of the rubber sole, the wearer would get wet.
Plimsoll shoe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia'
If anyone cares.

Half term next week [groan]

I thought we'd seen the last of the 'plimsoll mum'.

I'd forgotten her problem anyway! Well that's what you get for asking a load of oldies, a lot of rambling about convents, gin-swigging nuns and the proper name for plimsolls. Serves her right. Incidently does any one know why plimsolls? And is it anything to do with the Plimsoll line on ships?

Join the club.

Liza80 your are starting to forget yourself, referring to "u" instead of "I" in your posts. Do try to maintain what I might loosely call your "standards", and also bear in mind that it is becoming a tad boring now.

Perhaps it's time to sign up under a different name and start another equally fatuous thread?

(I'll probably get a warning from HQ for this post.)

Try that again

I created a slightly ruder post than yours Ana but luckily my internet went down before I could post it. phew!

I created a sli

Yes, I wouldn't bother, Liza. It'll be spring soon and he can go barefoot...

Then again u can't afford new pumps for him this week just brought my daughters new pair of vans yesterday

Hi he is still in the plimsolls but they look really tatty should u get him new ones or wait till Easter

We called them pumps, there were also something similar but ankle high with laces, we called those bumpers. We called something else pumps too, which could also be malodorous.

sandshoes, plimsolls, pumps were the three names commonly used in my childhood. Now called plimmys by the DGCs1

At my school the uniform had two suppliers - one very upmarket and posh and the other one a chain store and much cheaper.

So far so good but unfortunately the blue stripe in the cheaper shop was a vivid blue and the stripe in the posh shop was a very delicate blue.

It told everyone how rich or poor you were. At 11 I had a posh summer dress and by the time I was 14 the cheaper version - didn't care by then

We called them 'pumps' or plimsolls

Where we live now they are 'daps' - or plimsolls!

Very generous chap, Gordon, letting everyone swig his holy water.

"Holy Water" is that what they called it? Wasn't it in those green sort of rectangular bottles with the white cap and label? (Apparently purporting to belong to somebody called Gordon)

'Gym shoes' or 'daps', no idea where the latter name came from...
If you ever get a chance to see the play 'Once a Catholic' do go, very funny play!
Very sure you didn't miss out by avoiding a convent schooling, unless you've a penchant for being terrified by Mother Superior, learning Shakespeare for a punishment and Holy Water-swigging nuns!

Oh thank you for so many laughs on this thread! I do feel I missed out by not having a convent education. I went to a Grammar that was co-ed (yes there were boys!). The back upstairs corridor was filled at break times with couples snogging.
Incidently what did you call plimsoles? We had "P.E" or "Gym" shoes and strangely sometimes "sandshoes"

Agreed thatbags- I grew up where there is no school uniform- and we did look, perhaps, scruffy. Trainers, jeans and t-shirts in Summer, Sweatshirts or jumpers in winter. People in the UK always say that uniform is a leveller- but truly, here kids are not obsessed with LABELS, and are not competitive on clothes, and overall, do not fuss about what to wear to go to school.

I truly believe all the fussing, obsessing with labels, etc- comes from the very thing- trying to distance yourself from the uniform(ity).

One of the Heads I worked with/for, used to be so strict on uniform- it put me right off. When a kid gets the same punishment for wearing sock with a stripe at the top, or a ring- than for bullying, or violence- something is wrong! I purposely went on to work in an Upper school without a uniform, as it put me right off.

Grey tunic, grey lisle stockings, grey blazer, red and white striped blouse, red tie!
What was her name? I might have known her?

But strictly no plimsolls