Most private schools are very strict on students regarding wearing the correct uniform. I have worked at schools where if I girl wore a ponytail without the a ribbon in the school colours they were disciplined.
One of my daughters describes the school where I work as the type of school where “if the students wear part of the uniform, the teachers are happy”. She is right.
There is one young girl who craves attention from her fellow students. Either through her behaviour or her clothing she makes it clear she wants to be noticed. For a few weeks during winter she took to wearing fake fur panda caps.
Friday she wore a leather belt around her waist, from which hung a very ornate silver teapot. The teapot was about a 4 cup size. It had an attached domed lid.
I am looking forward to Monday, to see whether she is building up to a full afternoon tea set.
Over here in Dear Old Blighty the young (and some of those who are drunk enough to think they’re still young) consider it de rigueur to appear in public in pyjamas.
This week two girls in pyjamas robbed a convenience store and beat up the owner. They were arrested rather quickly after the event.
I wonder how they found them so quickly ….. Oh yeah, pyjamas, twits
Not only that, but one confessed straight to camera. “Yeah we robbed a shop and beat up some Asian”.
Flamingo. I struggled to decipher this even with the help of google translate. But it does include an expletive (the f-word) and a shouty bit at the end saying if we have nothing nice to say then be quiet. As the writer is obviously not brave enough to talk to us in anything other than very poorly written Spanish, maybe this comment could be deleted? Or maybe she could talk to us in English. I’m always up for civilised debate.
Classic! I was probably like that girl – always looking for inventive ways to subvert the school uniform. It was the 80s so there might have been leg warmers involved.
I went to a state high school, but they were very strict about uniform. Primary school was under the nuns and of course they liked to beat us at any possible chance, so uniform was always perfect.
Was a bit more free and easy in Victoria in the 70s and 80s. I only had to wear a uniform from year 9-12 and that was at a fairly strict school. I was always in trouble for my various infringements though.
I imagine that you were always testing the boundaries!
Yes, I’m really not the uniform type.
Me either. I pride myself on being… well, me!
I am more then ever glad that we never had uniforms. Never been a rebel – but probably would have been like that girl, trying to see how far I can go and stretch the limits.
Uniforms are great – it stops the kids stressing out about clothes and competing, especially in low socio economic areas. I hate to think h=what they would wear otherwise – or rather how little they would wear!
I know what you mean. Though have to say that for a very long time I had to wear hand me downs and the likes, because of the financial situation of my parents. Didn’t make me one of the cool kids and I was on the receiving end of once overs and comments. But if I could chose between not cool and hand me downs and the uniform – still today I would chose the hand me downs.
Trying to imagine this…I could see perhaps a tiny teapot, with four tiny cups, hanging from a “charm belt,” but a full-size teapot???
Full size. It is a wonder the White Rabbit didn’t hop through the library too.
We never wore uniforms. Hell, the school was happy that we actually wore clothes!
I think if we didn’t have uniforms many of our students would be in danger of wearing very little too!
She probably saw it in Vogue or something…