Figure 1.--A few schools have the children wear slippers inside to help keep the school clean. This was not a very common option, but we did notice it at a few schools.
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Figure 1.--A few schools have the children wear slippers inside to help keep the school clean. This was not a very common option, but we did notice it at a few schools. |
Girls may wear leather, usually brown, lace up shoes with low heals. Other common options are brown leatherm single strap shoes or "T" strap shoes in the English school sandal style. Elementary-age British boys often wore closed-toe brown "T" strap sandals, referred to as school sandals, for normal school wear. Boys gernerally wear black leather shoes althoug a few schools require brown shoes. A lthough once prohibited, some schools now allow boys to wear sneakers (trainers). Some younger boys or girls wore redish-brown or blue sandals or double strap sandals. This style was never as popular in New Zealand, but was common until the 1960s. Currently such sandals are usually only worn by girls, except for a few preparatory school. Brown Roman-style flat heel sandals with out socks are commonly worn by secondary schoolboys as part of the school uniform. At some schools contests are known to see who can continue wearing the summer style of sandals without kneesocksd the longest during the winter. A few schools have the children wear slippers inside to help keep the school clean.
