Figure 1.--These children attended an Anglican primary school in the 2000s. They wear white "T"-shirts. The boy has a "T"-shirt with the school logo. They have plain black shorts. The boys and girls wore the same uniform.

We do not yet have much chroological information about English PE uniforms. We know that there wre very significant differences between the uninforms worn by boys and girls and this only began to change after World War II. Before the War, girls commonly wore middy blouses, bloomers, and even long sockings. Boys commonly wore sjort pants, often quite long ones until World War II. Long stockings were worn by both boys and girls in the early-20th century. Trends were somewhat different in primary and secondary schools. We note plain white shirts, both "T"-shirts and singlets, and white shorts at many schools. By the 1970s webegin to see shirts with school logos, sometimes in colors. Plimsols were often worn for gym lessons. Some children went barefoot.