On 10/09/2019 14:22, NY wrote:
"whisky-dave" wrote in message
...
You
could buy it from the school shop or from one specific gents'
outfitters in
town. There was still a gradation of poor/rich, based on the grade of
blazer
that your parents bought you: a "cheap" felt-like material or
"expensive"
worsted barathea. It was still more or less the same style and cut,
the same
colour (bottle green), same "silver" buttons, and with the same
school badge
on the breast pocket, but the gradation of the type of material still
sorted
the sheep from the goats ;-)

yes but the general idea was that everyone from that school looked
pretty much the same.


In other words, if you try to make everyone the same, they'll *still*
find a
way to look for differences and better/worse distinctions ;-)

Yes but the school can claim everyone is treated the same.

Yes, the school treated everyone the same and everyone looked more or
less the same, barring attempts to "vary" the school uniform as much as
they could get away with - because human nature seems to be that
everyone wants to look as different from each other as they can manage
while staying within the rules.


The one situation where school uniform is a problem, is when it
immediately identifies children from the "posh school" to the local kids
from the council estate next door. We had a real problem with local
"Pots Kids" (the district was unofficially called Potovens because of
the smelting ovens in the area a long time ago) invading the school
grounds, and attacking isolated boys who got separated from the rest
while out on a cross-country run.

We had a similar problem, but with another school - unfortunately for
them, we had a sixth form and they didn't, so they tended to run off
when challenged.

SteveW