Go on, who had the strictest School Uniform ???

Our deputy head used to stand at the bottom of the stair case and seek out the girls who were wearing stiff petticoats under their school skirts, this was in the early 60s. They were promptly told to take them off. Also were see through stockings with socks, we thought they were wonderful especially if the stocking were a diamond pattern.

GOW, I recognise those nuns FCJ?

My uniform was just like the OP, except we did not have uniform gloves. The colours were brown and gold. Brown school knickers have to be the most sexless garment ever invented.

We had a motto - typical Yorkshire really - nil sine labore, ie nothing without work.

I found it was easy wearing a uniform; no decisions to make about what to wear. Trouble is, I never did develop a fashion sense after leaving school.

But I did always wear nice panties after I left!!

I also went to a Convent & some of these uniforms sound very similsr to ours. Did anyone go to Notre Dame Collegiate in Everton Valley Liverpool & do you have any photos of our uniforms? Thanks

My goodness, I remember when this thread started back in 2011! It's interesting when they come back to life.

There will be someone here who knows your school, pk1878 - I'd bet my life on it! Anyway - hello there.

Revolting bottle green uniform .. Pinafore dress down to mid calf, fleecy bottle green knickers ( with pocket?!). But the ultimate humiliation was having to wear white ankle socks aged 18.

As I'm sure I said before - we had no compulsory uniform though we did have one for special occasions. This laxity did not prevent me from getting a load of Highers, a University bursary and an honours degree.

I don't remember too much about school uniform but when I went to Teacher Training college in 1967 I was amazed at how strict it was. My uniform overalls for practical classes cost a fortune but at least we did not have to starch them as earlier students did. Mini skirts were sort of accepted but TROUSERS !!!!!!! Some lecturers refused to teach us if we wore them. We had to be in by 10.30 during the week or 11pm weekends and as for the ''men out'' bell ..........................!!
Anyone else remember Glousestershire College of Education ??

I love the difference between those smart schoolboys who pose for the school uniform photograph and the reality - Just William ties partly under the collar, shirts partly tucked in, scuffed shoes, (unbelievably expensive) blazer hanging off the shoulders....When my DS went to an international school, they wore the smart uniform to and from school and for formal occasions but changed into jeans, school sweatshirt and trainers for the ordinary school day.

@pk1878 I went to holly lodge. We probably played you at hockey though I would certainly never have been on a team. Didnt you have brown and egg yolk for uniform? We were basic navy but coloured stripy ties and green and white striped blouses. Awful Grecian style (homemade for me ) outfits for gym in maroon or bottle green and we had to make our domestic science pinafores and headbands ourselves with initials in satin stitch in red and green.

My grammar school uniform wasn't too bad . Navy pinafore dress in the winter, and when you reached the dizzy heights of the upper IV or some such ,you were allowed to remove the top bit and wear it as a skirt. Come to think of it could that have been because boobs didnt look right under the 'bib'? In the summer we could choose bright blue or emerald green skits to be worn with short sleeved blouse. but woe betide anyone whose blouse did not come from Selfridges . Miss S ,the games teacher, would be down on them like a ton of bricks, as she would if anyone used 'ironmongery' to secure the needle cord beret to the back of the bouffant hairdo!

I still do not wear green..It haunted me all my school life! I lived opposite my school and it always seemed such a waste to have to by a summer boater, winter velour and also a beret! In the 6th form we wore Juliet caps with tassels on! All those hats just to cross the road

So many women traumatized by their compulsory school uniform!

I'm NOT surprised that so many women on here went to convents. And don't get me started on nuns. They would be first on my Room 101 list. An old friend of mine showed me the scars on her back where she was whipped.

Petra. Nuns would be in my room 101 too. At my Catholic infants/junior school we were taught by nuns. Most (with the odd kind exception) were horrible. I found out many years later that they were called the Sisters of Charity (what a joke). They reigned by fear and so did many of the priests at the adjoining church.

I've noticed that people who have enjoyed a privileged education of some kind, involving boaters and Latin, often complain about how awful their school days were.

It was't a barrel of laughs in the typical bog standard sec mod in those days either though at least no-one really cared if school uniforms were worn or not.

KatyK
Sisters of the charity of st Vincent de Paul were the nuns at my primary and junior school. Old spinsters at my all girl grammar school.

I went to a private school , we had navy gymslips white shirts and ties , velour hats in the Winter , blazers .
Summer , poplin frocks white knee sox and boaters and whoa betide you you if you dared to roll up the blazer sleeves . Detention straight away .
I cannot say school days where the happiest of my life !

I went to a convent but I loved it there, mainly because there was no corporal punishment. The uniforms were something else. A grey/blueish pinafore dress with a long sleeved grey blouse, winter and summer, a grey cardigan and blazer the same colour as the pinafore dress. Culottes and a blue airtex type short sleeved blouse for games, a tartan kilt with a white blouse, tie and tweed jacket for Sundays. A white dress for holy days. All of the uniform could only be bought in one shop in Edinburgh, the name escapes me. Everything was long, way below my knees.
Grey knickers with white knicker linings! Grey knickers were changed weekly, the linings x3 a week! The blouse worn daily was changed weekly- the nuns saved on water! A bath x3 a week provided that there was sufficient hot water. This was 1955 -1961.

I went to a convent school as well, we were not allowed to wear patent leather shoes as they might reflect our underwear. But if we forgot school shorts on a tennis day, we had to walk to the courts, in battersea Park, in our gym knickers!

"Charleygirl" Jenners, Forsyths or Aiken and Niven!!! those were the school outfitters.
I went to a convent in junior school, which I loved, then a large private school for the senior part, which I hated.
Uniform was strict in both schools. We used to get reported to the headmistress if anyone saw us eating on the bus or not wearing our hats!!!
Edinburgh is such a snobbly place to grow up in, where you go to school was so important to some folk and often the first question one was asked when meeting new folk, as adults. Not me though I couldn't care less where folk come from, if we get on, that is the main thing.
Bit of a ramble as I am waiting for GP and district nurse, sorry.

Oh I used commas instead of asterisks, sorry Charleygirl

Thanks Grandmanorm it was Forsyths, I remember now.

Strict...aged 18 the teacher in charge of us girls paced at breaktimes with a ruler and measured the distance between our hemline and ' bobby socks '. heaven forbid if you were standing speaking to a male...

....I was 18 not the teacher