Figure 1.-- Avaiable images suggest that at least some boys behaved no differently than if they were dressed in overalls. Here two boys in suits are wrestling on the ground.

Blazers are commonly associated with British school wear. Many boys, however, wore suits and suit jckes rather than blazers. This seems especially common in state schools before and just after World war II. At this time, primary schools did not commonly require uniforms. Private schools commonly insisted on blazers, bit quite a number had suits rather than blazers. Some had both uits and blazers. Blazers were worn for every day and suits for special occassions. The suits worn were commonly grey suits, but not all of them were grey. We have seen some suits in other colors as well as some suits done in patterns. Dressed in suits you might think that boys would be relativly constrained. Avaiable images suggest that at least some boys behaved no differently than if they were dressed in overalls.