Photo Essays: Uniforms Garments--Shirt Sleeves
Figure 1.--This boy on his morning break has rolled up his sleeves for a game. He is fielding in a batting game.
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Long-sleeve shirts were the most common. This was the case both for the standard every-day grey shirts as well as for the white shirts worn when dressing up. We see boys wearing long sleeves during the winter as well as the summer term. On warm days the boys rolled up the sleeves. As there are not a lot of really warm days in England during the school year, this approsch works fairly well. There were probably once rules about this at the school uniform rules were once quite formal at most schools. By the 1980s, most schools were run more informally as far as the uniform was concerned. Thus at most schools, rolling up their sleeves seems to have left this up to the boys and did not make an issue of it. A few schools did had short-sleeve shirts for summer wear. This was usually schools in the south. Schools in northern England seem to have used the same shirts year round. The basic grey shirts were very common. The short-sleeve shirts
were normally the light-weight Aertex shirts. We notice these shirts at several schools.
