Hertford Uniforms
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Re: Hertford Uniforms
Like this one. the one you can just see is a velour (for Sundays in the winter)
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Re: Hertford Uniforms
katherine says:
David replies: Fifty percent right, anyway! An optimum outcome, in my experience.David - please a chapel cap, never called a hat in my time!
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Re: Hertford Uniforms
Yep, that's the one I've got, the chapel cap. Thanks for the picture Mary! I have to say that I woke up giggling this morning because this chapel cap actually appeared in my dreams last night!
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It was bad enough only having clean underwear twice (or was it 3 times?) a week, but how often did our uniform go to the laundry? We must have had 2 sets unless we wore the grey tunics, jumpers etc the whole term without washing. Surely not??!
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Re: Hertford Uniforms
Yes we did, they had to be dry cleaned. And clean underwear/shirt was twice a week, Tuesday and Friday. I think we only had one set of the stretchy sports things too, they must have moved on their own by the end of the summer term.fra828 wrote:It was bad enough only having clean underwear twice (or was it 3 times?) a week, but how often did our uniform go to the laundry? We must have had 2 sets unless we wore the grey tunics, jumpers etc the whole term without washing. Surely not??!
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Re: Hertford Uniforms
I do remember trying on all the hats that were no longer worn as part of the uniform, up on the second floor, I recall two sets of reflective mirrors with cupboards above and Amanda Mc caught me up there once and had me stand on the landing for an hour bcause I hadn't moved up to the cubies yet!!
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Re: Hertford Uniforms
Amanda McIlwain - you must have been very strict!
The mirrors reflected to infinity! The excitement of experimenting with make-up in those mirrors!
And finally, taking a last look at myself on Leaving Day July 1971, as I stood dressed in one of my mother's 1953 maternity dresses - what else would fit me? (Nowadays I would say proudly "Vintage!") I attempted to improve things with a pair of silver rimmed sunglasses. I considered that I'd never see Upper Dorm and the cubies again, and felt a strange pang of sadness. All the times we'd messed about with our hair and peered anxiously at our reflections well after lights-out! And now to be going out into the real world - we'd never have to hide our make-up again...
Oh! ! Oh!
The mirrors reflected to infinity! The excitement of experimenting with make-up in those mirrors!
And finally, taking a last look at myself on Leaving Day July 1971, as I stood dressed in one of my mother's 1953 maternity dresses - what else would fit me? (Nowadays I would say proudly "Vintage!") I attempted to improve things with a pair of silver rimmed sunglasses. I considered that I'd never see Upper Dorm and the cubies again, and felt a strange pang of sadness. All the times we'd messed about with our hair and peered anxiously at our reflections well after lights-out! And now to be going out into the real world - we'd never have to hide our make-up again...
Oh! ! Oh!
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Re: Hertford Uniforms
And I remember thinking on my last day: Never in my life will I wear anything quite so fetching as a Grecian's coat again! (True, as it turns out. Not even the Cambridge PhD outfit, complete with bonnet and scarlet, is quite so good, and I only ever had one occasion to put that on.)Angela Woodford wrote:Amanda McIlwain - you must have been very strict!
The mirrors reflected to infinity! The excitement of experimenting with make-up in those mirrors!
And finally, taking a last look at myself on Leaving Day July 1971, as I stood dressed in one of my mother's 1953 maternity dresses - what else would fit me? (Nowadays I would say proudly "Vintage!") I attempted to improve things with a pair of silver rimmed sunglasses. I considered that I'd never see Upper Dorm and the cubies again, and felt a strange pang of sadness. All the times we'd messed about with our hair and peered anxiously at our reflections well after lights-out! And now to be going out into the real world - we'd never have to hide our make-up again...
Oh! ! Oh!
Th.B. 27 1955-63