Comments on: Navy Blue Knickers

By: Shades

Shades — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:52:46 +0000

Is it? I didn’t look too closely and wherever Google found it called it Japanese. It certainly isn’t Japanese characters though now I have looked closer, so I have updated the text.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:37:55 +0000

The so called Japanese uniforms over the image is actually Korean.

By: joanne

joanne — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:41:02 +0000

born in the north 1950,s evan at junior school right through to secondary modern all the girls wore navy blue knickers,i always had a desire to touch them as if by accident,had to know what they felt like the girls didnt seem to have aproblem sitting in a way that one could see up the skirt. oh the good days . now in later years im transsexual and love my knickers of all types

By: Shades

Shades — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:36:39 +0000

I know a couple of teachers and they have different views on uniform. My sister in law teaches in a large Comp with slightly relaxed rules for 6th formers and she says she sometimes mistakes the older students for newly qualified teachers!

By: Welshcakes Limoncello

Welshcakes Limoncello — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:28:36 +0000

I can remember we had to wear bottle green knickers and as it was the first era of the miniskirt the length of our skirts was measured every Monday morning! Having spent most of my life in secondary teaching, I am against school uniform.

By: Shades

Shades — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:48:41 +0000

My mum informs me that there were two outfitters in Newcastle, one doing Grammar Schools, the other everyone else (but their stock was starting to overlap by 1969). She recalled the name Isaac Walton (who are still trading, they look the hunting & shooting type so they probably did the Grammars & private schools). She recalls having to buy me a gabardine coat and a bottle green school cap when I started at Stocksfield Avenue Primary in 1963.

By: jmb

jmb — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:26:47 +0000

My school gym uniform had navy blue cotton knickers. It was the ugliest thing going. A very short dress thing with sleeves and the knickers. More like bloomers really.

If I had a photo, no one would believe it today.

By: Shades

Shades — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:09:31 +0000

They have two now:- a craft apron (grey) for watching the teacher do things with wood and metal, then a Food Technology apron (white) for watching a teacher cook.

By: Brian

Brian — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:52:48 +0000

Craft apron? When I were a lad in junior school we wore old dad’s shirts backwards to protect us from poster paint splashes. And in the senior school of the independent school (ex-direct grant grammar) I attended, one of the most popular stalls at the Christmas and other fairs was for second hand uniforms – the school took a cut for funds and parents kept the rest.