Scottish School Uniform: Blazer Patterns


Figure 1.--Several Scottish schools have blazers with piping. This boy on a field trip wears a purple blazer with white piping.

Most blazers were solid colors, but there were two primary alternatives, stipes and piping. The costs of these alternatives have caused schools in recent years to drop them. Some English schools decided on striped blazers. This does not seem to have been the case in Scotland where almost all of the blazers were solid colors. One popular styule in Scotland was piping. Several schools had color piping around the edges of the blazer and on the lapels. The piping was of contrasting colors. Blue blazers, for example, had yellow and white piping. Brown lazers might have red or a white striped piping. Some times piping woukd be used to reflect status at the school rather than worn by all the boys. Thus junior boys might have plain blazxers, but the senior boys have blazers with piping.






Christopher Wagner






Related Blazer Pages in the Boys' Historical Web Site
[Main school uniform blazer page] [Main blazer page]
[Australian blazers] [English blazers] [New Zealand blazers] [Scottish blazers]




Created: November 25, 1998
Last updated: May 20, 2001