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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2009 12:54:30 GMT
Did you have to wear a uniform to school? In Junior and High school?
We had to wear them in High school and I sometimes wonder why we bothered. Everything that could be done to make it look un-uniform like, was done. Our skirts would be too short, our ties too big and half way down our chest, our blouses open at the top. Scruffy just about describes it.
How about you?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2009 16:13:20 GMT
My first 3 years were spent in a Catholic school. The girls wore a uniform (pleated navy blue skirt, white blouse) but the boys didn't. Strange policy!
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Post by spindrift on Nov 1, 2009 20:14:18 GMT
I spent 8 years in a boarding school. The nuns made sure we were spic and span. Not a thing out of place. We wore blue uniforms on weekdays and red ones on a Sunday.
The nuns also taught us how to clean floors. They gave us heaps of damp tea leaves, made us scatter them on the dormitory wooden floors and then gently sweep them up. They said the tealeaves attracted the dust.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2009 20:49:29 GMT
Was this before or after the tea leaves had been used to make tea?  |
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Post by spindrift on Nov 1, 2009 20:55:39 GMT
You are teasing me! if the tealeaves were damp they had been used... *thinks why were there so many tealeaves?*  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2009 22:56:55 GMT
Looks like the nuns liked having a lot of tea.
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Post by hwinpp on Nov 4, 2009 5:16:42 GMT
I suspect the nuns might have been onto something re the tea leaves. We used green artificial flakes. They could have been waxed, not sure. We used them again and again until they were too dry and didn't attract anymore dust.
I wore uniform sometimes but thank God it was only occasionally when I went to schools where English was the medium.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2009 15:37:08 GMT
Never heard of using flakes or tea leaves to attract dust before...
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Post by spindrift on Nov 5, 2009 18:56:17 GMT
Well, I never heard of it again once I'd left school!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2009 21:40:06 GMT
There is regularly talk in France of restoring some new version of the ugly grey smocks (tabliers) that both boys and girls used to wear over their normal clothing in bygone times. This was to hide class differences, and most people think that it was a good thing, considering how obsessed certain people now are with brand names, designer T-shirts and other such things.
But it nevertheless appears that we have reached the point of no return.
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Post by spindrift on Nov 5, 2009 22:43:16 GMT
Yes, I think we have reached the point of no return.
Sometimes I think life would be so much easier if everyone wore the Chairman Mao peasant 'uniforms'....
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2009 0:33:33 GMT
Most of the kids around here wear jeans to school, Junior and High school.
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Post by fumobici on Nov 6, 2009 22:55:54 GMT
Kids- people actually- are sufficiently conformist to make school uniforms unnecessary for reasons of... uniformity. You'd see a lot less ass crack though.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2009 6:53:47 GMT
Just make baggy pants obligatory and they will rebel against it.
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Post by tillystar on Nov 9, 2009 9:55:18 GMT
We had a strict school for uniform. In the summer they would tell us in assembly if it was warm enough that day to remove our blazers.
When I was about 15 I discovered if I wore the wrong coloured shoes they would send me home to change them, which could take half a day as I lived an hour and a half from my school. So I wore the wrong shoes often until they caught on I didn’t mind getting sent home just before double maths.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2009 15:27:58 GMT
That was naughty, Tilly!
A girl I knew in High School, would cut up her shoes every few weeks just because she was bored with them, and then make her parents buy new ones. Talk about a spolit brat.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2009 6:05:22 GMT
Jeez, I would have made her go to school barefoot!
(Speaking of which, when I moved to public school, there were two children in my class who did come to school barefoot. Talk about living in the sticks!)
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Post by rikita on Nov 11, 2009 0:28:31 GMT
only time i wore a school uniform was during the five months i went to school in chile. i kind of liked it then, because it was different, and i had the impression it made a difference as in that my circle of friends was much more mixed in taste of music and fashion than at home - because at school you couldn't tell as quickly what someone was into. but in the long run, i wouldn't like uniforms. the idea of uniforms in general is militaristic in a way to me...
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