Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Own-clothes-wearing on founders day was very circumscribed. It was allowed only for the ghastly dance, only of the top layer ie no undies from home, and with no jewellery, make-up, hair styling, etc. May have been age related, perhaps just senior wards ? Wonder who started it ?
As for avoiding this ...

In some ways post-war CH sounds today more like the 18 than 19 50s. School clothes all the time - in the hols too, for a few - and reminders (in 1s and then 8s anyway) of how lucky we were, as charity children, to be so provided for. We wore own clothes once a year, for the Founders Day dance in the ...

The mind boggles - Miss Richards, designing the new uniform ? On a par with, if rumour was correct, DR deciding the colour for the 1953 yellow dresses in which sallow and possibly even spotty schoolgirls were guaranteed to look their absolute worst.
Which reminds me - DR published a slim volume of ...

Til I read these messages, I'd no idea the Hertford uniform took such exotic forms ! In the early '50s it was sober navy - some quite elegant, coat-dresses with their detachable silk collars, blazers, serge (?) tunics and blue cotton shirts. Tho there were also the frightful yellow dresses ...