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Short pants are common at both South Africn uniform and non-uniform schools, vrtually standard school wear. At the uniform schools, the most common are standard British grey school shorts. Shorts are worn at the non-uniform schools, but a wide range of tyoes. We also see more diversity at pre-chools where unforms are less standard. One of the destinctive garments worn by South African schoolboys are khaki shorts. A few English schools had khaki shorts, but they were more common for leasure wear. Khaki shorts were also worn in Australia, but it was in South Africa that they were most common. Grey shorts are much more also widely worn. Both primary and secondary-level boys commonly wore shorts to school. This was nearly universal at the primary schools. It was more varied at secondary scgools. This has continued well after shorts had become less common in England. Many South African schools now allow the older boys to wear long pants, but at the unifiorm chools, shorts are more common, especially at the primary schools.
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