TullyLovesDrew
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most schools here don't have uniforms
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Post BB - Housemate Antics 2013
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yes but that photo is at least 20 years old (Ben's 30 remember) and fashions / uniforms were a bit different in those days
sorry for my rudeness - but where are you?
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prufrock
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We know that...raised on a diet of US TV...and what passes a s a uniform in Gossip Girl is laughable
Most school children wear uniforms here. The main reason is that it minimises the social divide where parents are unable to afford new clothes for their children all the time. Public school uniforms are fairly cheap especially 2nd hand
prufrock
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The dresses for girls haven't changed much at all. I actually quite like them, which is sad. I should add the rider that green and BROWN uniforms should be banned, especially when teamed with gold.
littlebear
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I went to private school in the States--no uniforms, but a strict dress code. The boys especially would have had their bums kicked in public school dressing the way they had to at mine. It's all what you're used to. I love Australian school uniforms, though (probably in part because I never had to wear them.)
rj1
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Good opportunity for Tully. Maybe we'll also finally get a definitive answer on her status with Drew. I'm sure Sonia will probably ask.
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tee_smyth
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Heading back to school today? Here's me on my first day of year 5 and my new school. It's the best time of your life so don't wish it away too fast okay? #backtoschool����
Lovely photo. Tugs at the heart a little
I loved then too. It's just so easy. My sister lives in LA and said she spends a fortune on clothes for her kids as they always want to be in the latest fashions
smurfette
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I changed schools for years 5 and 6 for OC classes, which took students from several feeder schools in the region. While the rest of the school had to wear the school's correct uniform, the students in the OC classes could wear the uniform of their previous school if it still fitted and their parents didn't want to pay for new uniforms. Some students wore other school uniforms for the entire 2 years we were there (both summer and winter uniforms including ties).
Our class photos were a mess - there were gold, purple, green, brown, blue and grey uniforms, and a variety of different striped ties.
Hats and gloves became compulsory at high school - which was a public high school (beige uniform and socks - not as bad as brown, but not that much better)
smurfette
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So did I. When my daughter went on exchange to the US, I made her buy one of the school sweatshirts (she also came back with the school's cross-country team T-shirt
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Illabeth
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I went to three primary schools, all public, only one of them didn't have a uniform. It's very unusual here to not have a uniform, I only know of 2 public schools and then the stiener schools. I went to a private high school and we had a very strict uniform, it was mandated right down to the colour of hair ties we could use (hair coloured, navy or white).
Most public schools have a uniform, even if it is only a coloured polo shirt over black trousers with a school windcheater. My friend went to a school in country Victoria (a very small p-12 public school) where the uniform was a yellow polo (with or without school emblem) navy jumper and jeans.
Most public schools have a uniform, even if it is only a coloured polo shirt over black trousers with a school windcheater. My friend went to a school in country Victoria (a very small p-12 public school) where the uniform was a yellow polo (with or without school emblem) navy jumper and jeans.
smurfette
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My public high school listed the brand and colour of underpants (fortunately it was never actually checked). But hair ribbon colour was also mandated and strictly policed.
prufrock
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Selective high school?
smurfette
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It is now - but wasn't at that point. It was just insanely strict.
We were only allowed to be picked up or dropped at school by our own parents, unless you had written permission to leave the school with someone else (teachers and the principal patrolled the streets outside the school and did random window knocks on cars to check). Also, we were never to be seen with a boy while we were in school uniform, nor were we allowed to be in the local shopping centre (the school was across the road from Westfield) without a permission note issued by the principal in response to a written request from our parents.
I went to a performing arts school. I generally just wore the uniform as we were supposed to but there were quite a few students who had the "I go to a selective school and I am clearly too creative and individual to conform to a uniform" mentality and as a result you saw quite a few creative ways of people getting around the uniform/dress code. I had to dance a lot as well so we were allowed to be in that gear if need be.
jessy_girl
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Oh I love seeing little Tully in her Wenona uniform! So many memories flooding back. That's a gorgeous pic.
I went to a private school and they were so strict with everything, at least they made it super easy to rebel - just wear the wrong t-shirt to sport, or leave school grounds without your blazer. I finished up at public school and it was awesome, I pretty much wore whatever I wanted provided there were a few pieces of the uniform, even just the sports uniform. Everyone looked pretty sloppy though, I have to say.
I went to a private school and they were so strict with everything, at least they made it super easy to rebel - just wear the wrong t-shirt to sport, or leave school grounds without your blazer. I finished up at public school and it was awesome, I pretty much wore whatever I wanted provided there were a few pieces of the uniform, even just the sports uniform. Everyone looked pretty sloppy though, I have to say.
smurfette
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Newtown? (My niece went there - she did dance).
Two of my kids went (last one is still there - year 12) to a creative arts high school. Gotta say, for a school that is focused on creativity, there is very little individualism allowed. My son does buck the system with his uniform and beard, and is constantly being spoken to about it by the teachers - but no one has ever made a complaint to me (although they do threaten to), but one teacher did give him a razor a couple of years ago.
He insists on wearing grey trackies with Julius Marlow dress shoes, and either a light blue or purple Lowes jumper.
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