Scottish Preparatory Schools: Uniform Garments--Hosiery
Figure 1.-- The boys at this Scottish school wore red knee socks. In England brightly colored knee socks were worn for sports, but not like this boy with the standard school uniform.
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The hosiery wirn at English and Scottish schools as far as we can tell is very similar. We see boys wearing both ankle socks and knee socks. Knee socks are probably somewhat more common among the boys weraring short trousers than in England, primarily because of the somewhat cooler wreather. We saw fewer boys wearing shorts with ankle sicks than in England. Rhe most notable difference, however, is the brightly colored knee socks worn at scome schools. Most English boys wore grey knee socks, with a few exceptions. And the exceptions were other muted colors like beige and dark blue. Several Scottish schools, however, had uniforms wsith brightly colored knee socks like royal blue, maroon, purple, and red. This we never saw in England, at least with the standard uniform. We did see brightly colored knee socks for sports in England, but not as part of the standard uniform. The schools we saw with the brightly colored knee socks were all private schools. We do not know for a fact that no state school had them, but we never saw any.
