Figure 1.--These prep school boys in the 1980s wear two of the principal colors of corduroy used for school uniforms, grey and brown. |
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English schools have generally preferred grey or black trousers. Generally shorts have been grey and long trousers black--although dark grey longs are also worn. Schools adopted a more varied range of colors for cord shorts. HBC has noted grey, blue, and brown cord shorts at schools. We believe dark green was also worn, but we can not confirm school usage at this time. Grey was, however, the most common color by far. The great bulk of cord jackets and pabts e have noted have been grey. The boy on the previous page is wearing dark grey shorts. The boys here are wearing brown and grey shorts (figure 1). The grey shorts may have beena lighter shade when originally purchased. We have noted various shades of grey, we think in part due to colors becoming lighter as a result of washing. Some of the grey garment while not white are a verylight-grey shade. The cord jackets were a more uniform color--usually various shades of grey--often with a light blue tinge. We have noticed some blue jackets, but they were not very common.
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