Figure 1.--Here we see red and white piping on a navy blue blazer. Light-colored piping on a dark blazer was a a coomon convention. This school was a Scottish academy with a prep section. |
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Some school blazers are detailed with piping. Plain blazrts were the most common, but we see blazers with colored piping as well. The piping adds a bit of color to basic blazers giving a destinctive look to the school. The piping was often on blue, grey, or black, but there were other colors as well. The piping was done in many different colors. This resulted in quite a number of possible combinations. The color combinations were commonly picked up in the cap, tie, jumper trim and kneesocks trim. The piping might be added around the edsges of the blazer as well as on the sleeve and pockets. The piping was commonly appied as ribbon trim sewn on to the blazer. We notice quite a range of color cominations. The piping makes the school blazer a bit more distinctive. This seems to have been more common at public schools than preparatory schools. The more fancy blazers seem to have also been more common at girls' schools. Piping is the decorative trim used to edge a blazer it is normally done in a contrasting color. This was more common earlier, but the trend by the 1980s was for simpler brazers to keep the cost low.
Some school blazers are detailed with colorful piping. Plain blazrts were the most common, but we see blazers with colored piping as well. The piping adds a bit of color to basic blazers giving a destinctive look to the school uniform. The added color tended to be very popular with mothers. I don't think the boys themselves paid much attention to it.
The piping was often used on blue, grey, or black blazers to provide a little color contrast. These were very common blazer colors in the 1980s. Earlier there was a greater variety of colors. There were also colorful blazers in the 80s, but these standard colors had become very common. Commonly the color used for the piping was also picked up on the cap, tie, jumper (sweater) trim, and knee socks tops. Here the precise approsach varied from schoolto school. Piping was used on blazers with other coloes, but these three standard colors were by far the most common. Without the piping the blazers were very plain and the schools commonly liked to have some destinctive uniform features.
The piping was done in many different colors. This resulted in quite a number of possible combinations. The piping was commonly done in one collar, but we have noted some piping done in more tham on
The color combinations were commonly picked up in the cap, tie, jumper trim and kneesocks trim. The possible color combinations were practically endless. The grey blazers commonly had colored tri,. The blue and black blazers might have yellow oe white trim. The piping makes the school blazer a bit more distinctive. Many schools have blue and black blazers and often the students at one school can not be destinguished from those of another. Blazers used to be more sestinct. The colored piping can give anotherwise plain blazer a very destintive look.
The piping might be added around the edsges of the blazer as well as on the sleeve and pockets.
The piping was commonly appied as ribbon trim sewn on to the blazer. We notice quite a range of color cominations.
This seems to have been more common at public schools than preparatory schools.
The more fancy blazers seem to have also been more common at girls' schools. Piping is the decorative trim used to edge a blazer it is normally done in a contrasting color. This was more common earlier, but the trend by the 1980s was for simpler brazers to keep the cost low.
