Figure 1.--This preparatory school had both suits and blazers. Most of the boys wore blazer for dress-up occassuions like Sunday church. The prefects were allowed to wear suits.
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Figure 1.--This preparatory school had both suits and blazers. Most of the boys wore blazer for dress-up occassuions like Sunday church. The prefects were allowed to wear suits. |
Some schools had suits, as far as we know always grey suits. I am not entirely sure why other colors like black or blue were not worn. I assume it is just that grey was so associated with schoolwear. All the suits we noted had single breasted blazers. We noted both short and long trousers. At most schools with suits, by the 1980s suits were worn instead of blazers. Earlier at many private schools boys had both suits and blazers. Suits were worn for formal occassions and blazers for normal school days. There were some schools that we visited that had both suits and blazers. Here conventions varied. The suits were normally worn for special occassions. At a few schools, however, suits were worn by the older boys or in sone school by the prefects. Blazers were worn by both boys and girls, but suits were only wirn by the boys.
