Photo Essays: Going Home: Uniform--Informal Approaches
Figure 1.-- These boys have finished their last class and are headed home. They wear their ties, but not their blazers. They have to grab their blazers, but do nit have to put then on as mum is waiting for them in a car.
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Other schools are more relaxed about this and allowed the children to go home without their ties and blazers. As far as we can tell, this was a minority of schools. Or the school did not insist that the children were so perfectly turned out when returning home. The children might not have to put their blazers on when returning home. Here a factor was it was just a matter of jumping into the cars where mum was awaiting them. The boys might not be required to put their ties back on if they took them off during the day. Of course many schools had the boys wear their ties during the day. After school, they rarely took them off, presumsbly because they were so used to wrearing them. Footwear in particular varied, in part because many younger boys did sports in the afternoon. So we see boys wearing sneakers in the afternoon or as the British say, trainers. Some schools had the boys wear sandals during the day, but the smeakers were then ckept at school. At other schools they did not change and the sandals were wotn to school as well.
