Figure 1.--Most preparatory schools in the 1980s like this boarding schoolncontinued tobrequire blazers in the 1980s. They were not commonly worn at school, but the days boys wore thenm in coming and going to school. A British reader has provided us some insights to the uniform items the boys here are wearing. Click on the image for his insights.

Blazers were still very common at English schools during the 1980s. A few sate primaries had them, but not very many. Most Anglican primaries did have them, commonly a blue blazers. Most preparaory schools had them, but many schools discontinued the matching caps. Rules at schools were geberally relaxed. Boys generally did not wear the blazers during the school day. Most state secondry schools required blazers, commonly a sandard black blazers. A reader tells us that blazers were not common at his school. He writes, "I started Secondary School here in the early 1980s. My school had a black blazer with the school crest on the breast pocket. Before I had gone to school there, the wearing of blazers was quite common (bear in mind this wasn't a Private School, just a normal everyday one). Certainly, we had one in the house which had been my brother's and being a child who liked to look smart I did on occasion wear it if I felt like it. I don't remember getting any teasing because of it and there were a few boys certainly in my first couple of years there who wore blazers - from all sorts of family backgrounds. It was seen to be a totally optional thing. Certainly by the time I left in the second half of the decade no one was wearing blazers any more and though the uniform has since changed slightly they have not come back. In fact, the wearing of blazers in conventional schools across the board has stopped. In the TV series "Grange Hill" everybody used to wear them up until the mid-1980s, but that has now entirely ceased. Certainly my blazer had two plain silver buttons with slight shoulder padding and was made of a horrible synthetic polyester mix type of fibre, though it did have a comfortable lining." Most public schools also required blazers. A British reader has provided some oservations on the image here. He has also commented on another 1980s image.

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