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Share your memories and stories from your days at school, and find out the truth behind the rumours....Remember the teachers and pupils, tell us who you remember and why...
CHAZ wrote: Horrible things as itchy nad with lots of holes!!!
This should read "and with lots of holes"...!
Actually they were particularly uncomfortable and thick!! I remember we only changed twice a week so you can imagine the state of affairs...I often wondered if you got the Morleys of the guy who had had your House Number before you....but thne again I can't imagine that a UF guy has the same ****!! as a former Grecian!!!
I should add that we were also provided with pyjamas that were stripped and had a tie up in the front. Thses made us look like convicts...
So what with itchy Morleys, itchy breeches, itchy yellow socks and bands that half choked you, the average Housey boy in the early 80s would have made a great specimen for any dermatologist
CHAZ, thank you so much for the link. I've really enjoyed browsing through the vintage posters. Marvellous.
One day, I hope to trace a 60's Dr Zhigavo poster - always loved it.
Stripy pyjamas with the cord in front... I confess, I find these attractive. Weird!
I wonder why? Dunno!
"Baldrick, you wouldn't recognise a cunning plan if it painted itself purple, and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing "Cunning plans are here again.""
But men in my time never wore these pyjamas with cords. That's why it's a bit baffling!
We also at Hertford suffered twice weekly changes of underwear. Oh dear.
"Baldrick, you wouldn't recognise a cunning plan if it painted itself purple, and danced naked on top of a harpsichord singing "Cunning plans are here again.""
Angela Woodford wrote:
We also at Hertford suffered twice weekly changes of underwear. Oh dear.
Are you saying this was too many or too few? At Horsham (in the 50s and 60s) it was weekly.
The pyjama-cord thing is curious. CH pyjamas (stripes and cords) were what I'd been used to before I went to CH. I carried on with this style until I renounced pyjamas entirely about 40 years ago. I must admit I have not the faintest idea what the modern well-dressed man wears in bed. (Unless I am the modern well-dressed man. In bed perhaps. But otherwise I make no claims to modernity. As for well-dressed in the daytime, since the Grecians' coat it's been downhill all the way.)
michael scuffil wrote:Are you saying this was too many or too few? At Horsham (in the 50s and 60s) it was weekly.
I'm sure we were told that Sir Harry Vanderpant had given money for you to have a third set of underwear, given his name we thought this entirely appropriate.
I must admit I have not the faintest idea what the modern well-dressed man wears in bed. (Unless I am the modern well-dressed man. In bed perhaps. But otherwise I make no claims to modernity. As for well-dressed in the daytime, since the Grecians' coat it's been downhill all the way.)[/quote]
