Figure 1.--Boys at this school had black duffle coats for cold weather wear. We didn't note boys wearing gaberdine overcoats in the 1980s.
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Figure 1.--Boys at this school had black duffle coats for cold weather wear. We didn't note boys wearing gaberdine overcoats in the 1980s. |
The relatively mild climate means that cold weather coats are rarely necessary. Usually the wool jumpers the boys wear arecsufficnt. On colder days the students wear what ever coats or rain gear they had handy. This was a common practice at state schools. Some private schools did have uniform coats. We noted some British school with uniform coats. Often it was gabardine rain coats, although this was less common by the 1980s. Uniform coats are not very common in New Zealand. We are not sure if New Zealand schools once also had the gabardine raincoat as part of the school uniform. We think that some of the private schools may have had them. We did not notice them being worn in the 1980s, even at the private schools. We did notice that boys at some private schools had duffle coats.
