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Hi All

Just wondering if anyone knew who actually made the CH Uniform?

also how long are housey coats worn for by pupils before they are replaced? are we talking 5 years or generations?

thanks guys

I think we used to get a new one every year, but we had to wear them every school day.

well they still do - all lessons, dinner parade, chapel etc.

AKAP wrote:I think we used to get a new one every year, but we had to wear them every school day.

Surely not.

We wore our gymslips all winter and had them for years, once we stopped growing, then they were handed down to the next generation.

If I remember correctly, we handed our everyday coat in for a new one at the end of each school year, which then became the best coat for the following year. The previous best coat became next year's everyday coat and so on. Housey coats are very forgiving to growing teenagers; I don't remember having problems outgrowing coats during the school year and rips and tears were simply mended by matron.

englishangel wrote:

AKAP wrote:I think we used to get a new one every year, but we had to wear them every school day.

Surely not.

We wore our gymslips all winter and had them for years, once we stopped growing, then they were handed down to the next generation.

(.... checks pulse and blood pressure !!)

J.R. wrote:

englishangel wrote:

AKAP wrote:I think we used to get a new one every year, but we had to wear them every school day.

Surely not.

We wore our gymslips all winter and had them for years, once we stopped growing, then they were handed down to the next generation.

(.... checks pulse and blood pressure !!)

You wouldnt be checking your blood pressure if you could see what they looked like!

We girls at Horsham obviously had a different uniform for 'best', but I only remember having one housey coat. I think it was fitted on my UF (did we have them for the first winter after we moved?) and I think that was the only one I had for the whole of my school career.

really CJ? We had an everyday coat and one for best like St Matt's day.

These days they only have one housey coat iirc...

We used to wear the housey coat until it was too small for us and it would be replaced and taken back to the wardrobe and reused unless it was damaged!

Great Plum wrote:These days they only have one housey coat iirc...

er .... not quite. Since he began as a New Dep last year, Jonathan has always had two coats one of which is "best". Is this because he is in the choir? He is wearing his best today, which is a pity as it doesn't fit him very well!

Did button grecians have two coats?

soc wrote:Did button grecians have two coats?

I certainly didn't - too expensive, I would imagine, what with the velvet and the extra pocket......

DavebytheSea wrote:

Great Plum wrote:These days they only have one housey coat iirc...

er .... not quite. Since he began as a New Dep last year, Jonathan has always had two coats one of which is "best". Is this because he is in the choir? He is wearing his best today, which is a pity as it doesn't fit him very well!

It may well be that he's in choir but I remember talking to a matron who said that most only have one coat - maybe choir and band is different...

Richard Ruck wrote:

soc wrote:Did button grecians have two coats?

I certainly didn't - too expensive, I would imagine, what with the velvet and the extra pocket......

Fortunately I did, unless it was just a spare I found in the spare coat room:

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