Hogwarts Uniform with Link - OT

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 116804


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:
Steve/bboyminn:

> Here is a link that has been posted here many times before, but it's
> always worth a look especially for non-Brits who can't imagine 
school
> uniforms.
> 
> "British Schoolboy Uniforms"
> http://www.archivist.f2s.com/bsu/Bsu.html
> 
> Take special note of the Blue Coat uniforms. Today there are many
> 'Blue Coat' schools in Britain, and I think all but the most
> traditional have switched to simple blue blazers.
> 
> Also, note that the schools were brutally strict about making sure 
the
> students wore their uniforms completely and properly at all times. 
If
> you were seen outside of school without your hat on, it would be
> detention faster than you could say 'unfair'.

Geoff:
Perhaps a bit OT, but this message took me back a few years.

When I was about 10, at a Junior school in Tooting (in south-west 
London), my Headmaster tried to encourage me to sit the entrance 
scholarship for Christ's Hospital. What put me off and led to 
disagreements at home which were finally resolved on my side, was the 
uniform. I was not going to wear that over my dead body!!!

Then, at my grammar school, a cap was part of the uniform but by the 
Fifth Year, no kid wanting to keep his street cred would be seen 
wearing one. One day, a friend and I were walking along Battersea 
High Street when we met the Headmaster who greeted us with "Now, 
boys, if you had been wearing your caps, you could have raised them 
to me!" As he went on his way and we had immense difficulty 
smothering loud guffaws of laughter, my friend remarked "Ah, but we 
can do something that we couldn't do with caps on."
"What's that?" asked I.
"Touch our forelocks!" was the reply.

I wonder what the secret wish of the average Hogwarts pupil is re 
uniform?

Geoff
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