Figure 1.--There were both turn-over-top socks and kneesocks that just came to the knee. The regular kneesocks were almost always just plain grey. They had the advantage that they were much less expensive. Thus thrifty mums often bought them instead of the regulation turn-pver-top school socks with the colored bands. |
There were both turn-over-top socks and kneesocks that just came to the knee. The longer length were turned over to form a sock cuff. The British term was turn-over-top socks. The cuff hid the garter used to hold them up. Otherwise like the fabed Our William, the socks woulds quickly fall down, especially during any sort of activity. It was the longer turn-over-top socks that were done with the various bands in the school colors . The regular kneesocks were almost always just plain grey. They had the advantage that they were much less expensive. Thus thrifty mums often bought them instead of the regulation turn-pver-top school socks with the colored bands. They were done with elastic at the top to hold them up because without a cuff, a garter coild not be used. This was not a perfect solution, however, because they generally weakened adter wear and a few washings. Some schools with turn-over-top socks in school colors insisted the boys wear them. Others allowed boys to wear the less expensive kneesocks. And other schools insisted on grey socks, but allowed both turn-over-top socks and the less expensive kneesocks.
