Figure 1.--Most prep schools with short trouser uniforms used grey Terelyn shorts, but a few still have flannel shorts. Flannel used to be the primary materil used for school trousers and other unifotm items.
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Figure 1.--Most prep schools with short trouser uniforms used grey Terelyn shorts, but a few still have flannel shorts. Flannel used to be the primary materil used for school trousers and other unifotm items. |
British school shorts were at first mostly flannel. Flaqnnel was widely used for other schools clothes as well, including caps and blazers. Flannel was very common during the 19th and early 20th century. This changed with the appearance of Terrylm worsted. Flannel had the disadvantage of not holding a crease well and thus needed to be ironed, unlike Terryln. This flannel shorts for school uniforms have significantly declined. We noticed only a few schools in the 1980s that still had flannel shorts. In contrast we did not notice any schools will grey flannel long trousers. Cricket whites, however were still commonly done in flannel. Here I think this was mostly long trousers. I'm less sire about white shorts.
