Following on from being dirty and 10 second rule posts. Are we too clean?

My Dad used to put the rags in my hair if I was going to a party so that I had nice ringlets.

Our uniforms were always pristine. I don't remember about my underwear or blouses tbh. Our ties were never washed, but they were sponged a lot!

Our blazers were too and I think my Dad did the sponging. He did the shoe cleaning too, until we were older.

Our gym kit was shorts and Airtex top and washed every week after PE. Actually it's never crossed my mind until now how much effort my parents put in to making sure all three of us were clean and tidy for school. I'm off tomorrow to visit my Mum for a few days, so I must thank her!

I don't think I even knew dry cleaners existed until I was much older!

My Dad used to polish my shoes every night, they were always lovely and shiny.
It was quite a shock to find that DH had no intentions of doing the same when we got married

Oh yes, the school scarf! I remember mine so well. When I was in the lower fourth a craze suddenly sprang up for swapping the tassels on the scarf with pupils from other schools. There were two other schools in our town and several others in the surrounding area, all with different coloured uniforms, so in no time all the scarves ended up with multi-coloured tassels . We had to be sure to take them off and stuff them in our bags, though, before reaching school or we would be in terrible trouble!

We did that too, Indinana
We used to swap tassels with the boys from the grammar school.
That sounds a bit rude written down
I still have my school scarf somewhere in the attic, probably motheaten and disintegrated by now.

Greymary I had rags in my hair for a wedding when I was 10. My Aunt was marrying an Irishman and his Mum put rags in my hair and I ended up with beautiful ringlets. She'd had plenty of practice with her 5 daughters who all treated me like a doll that weekend. My long hair was dead straight and my Mum still talks about my ringlets!

I don't remember having a school scarf and we definitely didn't have a hat. My last secondary school uniform did have a hat, but it was optional and horrible. As I look like the village idiot in a hat, I opted out!