Hertford Uniforms

[mvgrogan]

isn't it amazing how strong an incentive embarrassing family members can be?? It was filed under family history instead of CH

[Kim2s70-77]

The photos from the 80s are WONDERFUL! So evocative of my era, the preceding decade. Everything was just as it had been in my day. Great illustration of a broad range of weird outfits. Didn't we call the navy stretch things 'Jumpsuits'?? I know we wore the same things in white for squash or tennis matches, with a small skirt of matching material over the top. All we need now are pics of the Harris tweeds and scarves, and the peculiar nightwear and underwear!!

[mvgrogan]

..... and the peculiar nightwear and underwear!!

I have none of those, you'll be glad to hear!!!

I'm not sure JR or NTN would survive if I did

[Fjgrogan]

Aaaaagh! The one good thing about that picture is that I only weighed then half as much as I do now! (And the fact that it is out of focus!) I wonder why I was wearing a velour hat with 'everyday' uniform?

[Vonny]

and here's Caroline Hewitt, Yvonne Payne & Mary-Rose Caunter.... undated but I think 1982 or 83!

LOL!!

Unsurprisingly I don't remember this but I would agree it was 1982/3 and taken in 4's.

[Angela Woodford]

I wonder why I was wearing a velour hat with 'everyday' uniform?

Didn't we have to wear velour or panama if going out with parents on a Saturday?

I remember climbing a tree on the Meads my first Long Sat and not daring to take the panama off.

[MKM]

Here's one of me in my harris tweed coat

[MaryB]

Here's one of me in my harris tweed coat

...and aren't those the itchy dark flecked brown woollen socks that wouldn't stay up even if you could find your garters and smelt so dreadful when they were washed? I remember mine hanging odorously up to dry above the boiler in the kitchen at home - it must have been the Christmas holidays of 1964/5 but no way would Santa have had anything to do with them.
I thought the socks went out with junior houses, but if I'm right that MKM arrived a year after that the third form must have gone on wearing them for a bit.

[midget]

They should never have abandoned the coatfrocks.

Quite agree! Did you wear them for Summer Sundays before the yellow dresses?

Answer: NO! Coatfrocks were for winter. In summer we had a weird collection of checked dresses, of various blue/white and I think blue/white/red checks. Unfortunately at first they only came in size 12 upwards, so those of us who were smaller, even in LV, as I recall, had to wear the junior frocks, blue with white and yellow flowers, if my memory has not completely gone. WE HATED THEM, but rationing was still in force, and you put up with what you were given.

The yellow dresses came in for summer 1953, the year after I left,

[MKM]

Yes, those are the socks! I went back to my junior school to show off my uniform, it must have been either the short October holiday, or possible Christmas 1965. The headmistress looked me up and down, trying desperately to think of something kind to say. "Nice sensible shoes, and sensible socks" was all she could manage. Even in black-and-white you can see that nothing in the uniform really matched anything else.

[Katharine]

The yellow dresses came in for summer 1953, the year after I left,

Yes I knew they were a way of celebrating the quatercentenary (was that the word used for the 400th celebrations?). They lasted thirty years but I wonder whether anyone liked them - except the greenfly!

[englishangel]

The yellow dresses came in for summer 1953, the year after I left,

Yes I knew they were a way of celebrating the quatercentenary (was that the word used for the 400th celebrations?). They lasted thirty years but I wonder whether anyone liked them - except the greenfly!

Shome mishtake shorely, they were gone by 1965.

[Angela Woodford]

Mary McDonagh, clean your shoes and bring them to the Study after lunch.

[J.R.]

Mary McDonagh, clean your shoes and bring them to the Study after lunch.

............. and there was me a few months ago, moaning about the state of Housey Girls walking round Horsham with somewhat grubby footware !!

[fra828]

Love all the photos! Before the jumpsuits came in, didn't we wear those saggy old blues for PE and athletics in summer?! On the subject of footwear, did we bring our own slippers from home or were they supplied by school?