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Readers can also look up specific garments and assess both boy and girl trends for that specific garments. This includes both gender specific and gender neutral garments. Some school garments are worn by both boys and girls, including both uniform items and regular garments. Such common garments include boaters, sweaters, ties, and blazers. Other garments are gender specific. These gender conventions have varied over time. Thus items with gender connotatiions in the 20th century often did not have the same connotatuiions or even were gebnder beutral in the 19th century. There are destinctive headwear styles for boys and girls. The boys wore pants and the girls dresses, often gym frocks, or skirts. This is the convention in all schools that we know of with uniforms. The colors vary. Blue and gray are the most common. The girls dresses are both solid colors and patterns--almost always plaid. Many schools have the girls wear white socks, both ankle and knee length. Few schools use white socks for boys uniforms, although we note one school in Australia (Brisbane) where the boys wear white kneesocks. Some have shoe requirements such as strap shoes or sandals, but this varies. At non-uniform schools in recent years girls have begun wearing pants, both jeans and shorts. Some schools with unforms allow the girls to wear shorts and long pants, but this is not very common. Pants have, however, become very common for girls in America and many other countries.
There are destinctive headwear styles for boys and girls. Much of this is in the styling. Some of the major styles are: berets/tams, boaters, rounded-crown hats, sailor styles, and stocking caps during the winter. Each of these have been worn by both boys and girls, although their have been variations over time and among countries. Age differences are another factor. Often while the basic headwear was worn by both boys and girls, the styling and detailing can be different. There were cap styles that were just worn by boys, such as various types of peaked caps, including German school caps, British school caps, winter caps, and the flat caps which was very common in America. The baseball cap is another example. There are also headwear types only worn by girls, such as the bonnet. And non-Western countries have a variety of destinctive styles, such as the turban and fez, these are almost entirely male garments in connection with schoolwear.
The boys mostly wore pants. At non-uniform schools in recent years girls have begun wearing pants, both jeans and shorts. Some schools with unforms allow the girls to wear shorts and long pants, but this is not very common. Pants have, however, become very common for girls in America and many other countries. This is almost always non-uniform schools. Although we notice girls wearin pants as part of the unifirm in India. We think the sane is truue in sonme Middkle Eastern countries, but we do not yet have details.
Girls mostly wore dresses or other skirted garments , often gym frocks, or skirts. The girls dresses are both solid colors and patterns--almost always plaid.
Many schools have the girls wear white socks, both ankle and knee length. Few schools use white socks for boys uniforms, although we note one school in Australia (Brisbane) where the boys wear white kneesocks.
Some have shoe requirements such as strap shoes or sandals, but this varies.
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