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English streets in the morning and afternoon when the children were trudging to school were a bright display of the many differently colored blazers topped with colorful, usually matching caps. Some schools had multi-colored striped blazers. Othr schools adopted blazers with piping, although these appear to have been more common at public (elite private boarding) schools for the older boys. Secondary schools, both private and state, also required blazers although they were often not as colorful as the prep school blazers. Prep school boys continue to wear blazers with a tie, often coordinated with the blazer color. Slowly after thev 1950s, the colorful capsbegamn to decline in popularity. The current blazers are usually less colorful than was the case in past years. The most common color for prep schools was probably blue done in different shades. Others colors include black, brown, burgandy, green, grey, pink, purple, red, and yellow. Black was more common for state secondary schools, but some prep schools had black blazers as well, like the school the boyon the previous page attended. Here the boys wear burgundy blazers (figure 1). Grey was most common color for the suits the boys wore, but there were grey blazers as well. Almost always the colorful blazers were accomapnies with grey sweaters, short pants or black long pants, and grey knee socks. This varied somewhat from school to school, but grey was the dominate color to go with the colorful blazers.
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