Uniforms Garments: Blazers--Popularity
Figure 1.-- Almost all British prep schools had blazers or suit jackets. The blazers with their destinctive colors omce helped identify the students. In recent years many of the brightly colored or stripped blazers have been replaced with more subduded blue or black blazers so they are no longer as destinctive. Despite these changes, most schools still do have blazers as part of their uniforms.
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Almost all British prep schools had blazers or suit jackets. The blazers with their destinctive colors omce helped identify the students. In recent years many of the brightly colored or stripped blazers have been replaced with more subduded blue or black blazers so they are no longer as destinctive. Despite these changes, most schools still do have blazers as part of their uniforms. There were a few schools, without blazers, but not very many. Blazers are not commonly worn at many f the schools even though they are part of the rquired unidorm. At many schools the day boys put them away as soon as they arrive at school. At a few schools they di not even normally even wear them to school. Blazers do, however, continue to be part of the standard uniform. At one time caps and blazers were worn at virtually every prep school. While most schools seem to have generally retired caps, this is not the situation with the blazers. This is the case because of tradition minded headmasters and parents. More than one head master mentioned to us that parents tend to support traditional uniform styles. The boys themselves tend to be much less appreciative of the blazers.
