Do / did you wear uniform at school?

[GardenGnostic]

You usually always have to wear uniform in the UK.
When I was at highschool we had to wear black trousers/skirt, white polo shirt and a royal blue jumper with the school's logo.

Luckily, they changed the uniform the year I moved up to highschool because before that it was brown trousers/skirt, white shirt, brown blazer and a brown and yellow striped tie... Gross!

 

[Brackets]

We had navy jumper and navy skirt/trousers with a light blue shirt. Oh, and a blazer but we didn't always have to wear it. I liked it, I wasn't very fashionable when I was younger so i'm glad the uniform meant i wasn't teased for it...

 

[toddishott]

Nope never had too, Ive only noticed that where I live you only wear a uniform you are attending a private school

 

[p e p p e r]

Most public high schools in the U.S. don't require uniforms, but I went to a private high school so we were required to wear uniforms - luckily our uniforms looked pretty good. I've seen public elementary schools kids wearing uniforms though (kindergarten - 5th grade)

 

[Nicole.]

Here in Finland schools don't have uniforms so no. Glad really, uniforms seem kind of useless.
We don't have any rules regarding clothes either, so females can show off their neckbone and whatnot.

I don't see how a school uniform is useless.

 

[Chris]

Yes and I hated it.

Although mine could have been worse. Black skirt/trousers, white blouse, black cardigan/jumper, and black & red striped tie. I substituted jeans and hoodie instead and a few teachers complained but they were never my own teachers so I didn't really listen.

 

[Cudon]

I don't see how a school uniform is useless.

They look like just another unnecessary cost to me.

 

[Peter]

Yeah; we had a white shirt, black trousers, blue + red tie, and a navy jumper with the school crest on. We got blazers, but that was after I left so I never had to wear them. Also your tie had a different colour stripe depending on which house you were in, mine had an orange stripe.

 

[Chris]

They look like just another unnecessary cost to me.

The main function nowadays is to try to promote equality within the school. But teenagers will always customise their uniforms, hair, bag, etc to the point where that doesn't really work. Cliques will still form and people will always be bullied for their appearance even when they're all dressed the same.

 

[himeki]

The main function nowadays is to try to promote equality within the school. But teenagers will always customise their uniforms, hair, bag, etc to the point where that doesn't really work. Cliques will still form and people will always be bullied for their appearance even when they're all dressed the same.

doesn't really work in our school since they're trying to phase out the old uniform and im just wearing it to annoy them :^)

 

[Nightmares]

doesn't really work in our school since they're trying to phase out the old uniform and im just wearing it to annoy them :^)

Yeah, our school brought in a new hideous uniform but I'm putting off wearing it rip

 

[himeki]

Yeah, our school brought in a new hideous uniform but I'm putting off wearing it rip

lol everyone wears it in pretty much all my classes but me im a special snowflake

 

[ams]

I went to a private school in Canada and I wore a uniform. It was the full on kilt, knee highs, blouse and cardigan deal. The colour was hideous though.

 

[mogyay]

from 1st to 4th year of high school our uniform wasn't strict at all, the only thing was essential was a tie, i used to wear black skinny jeans and doc marten boots to school. then in 4th year we moved in with another high school where things were muuuuuch more strict, we had to wear blazers and they even imposed a length on skirts

 

[RainbowCherry]

Our school's boiling, so of course we have to wear black clothes to take in that succulent heat. Those pure black slacks-things with those ridiculous clips instead of buttons or something. A white shirt and a clip-on tie that chokes you to make you learn how to tie a real tie (which you're not allowed to wear), and this huge blazer that will boil you like a microwave. The girls get skirts that they roll up constantly, we get bigger, more painful blazers, that's the trade-off we decided on in the boy vs girls war or whatever.

It makes me look like a frilly prick and a girl, fine, but you don't half hear the end of it from our schools chavs/gangster squad.

Our PE kit looks better than our school uniform, thought I'd add that, if they'd just turn the shorts into trousers and make the shirt long-sleeved. *drool*

(Ten-thousandth post!)

 

[ShinyYoshi]

I've never been to a school that required a uniform. Good 'ol American public schools right there.

Spoiler: kind of off topic about what is dumb in public school

We did have dress codes and stuff like that, but what I thought was the dumbest was people would get sent home just for breaking dress code, no matter how minor. Like you're really going to kick someone out and keep them from the education they need just because you can see their shoulder? That seems totally useless. A better idea would be to force them to change into gym clothes and their punishment would be walking around in gym clothes all day.

Then if they don't return the clothes, fine them. They had no problem fining people for library books, so why not just do that?

 

[boujee]

Yeah. They change up by grade and also in what school we're in. My school is a private school network with over 10,000 kids. My school just enter the system so we're a bunch of nobodies atm. Each school as its own color, same uniform protocol but can be alter, and we all wear the same logo.

My school colors are dark blue, black, light blue, dark blue, and white. The freshmen wear pants and blouses, sophomore females can wear pants and skirts, junior we can still wear skirts but can switch up to either long or short while the seniors can wear whatever choices plus have these vest so we know what grade level they're in.

 

[Ookami]

I don't think there's any school in sweden where you have to wear a uniform, therefore I have never.

 

[visibleghost]

no
a few private schools in sweden have uniforms but it is super rare and rly weird honestly

 

[Cudon]

I've never been to a school that required a uniform. Good 'ol American public schools right there.

Spoiler: kind of off topic about what is dumb in public school

We did have dress codes and stuff like that, but what I thought was the dumbest was people would get sent home just for breaking dress code, no matter how minor. Like you're really going to kick someone out and keep them from the education they need just because you can see their shoulder? That seems totally useless. A better idea would be to force them to change into gym clothes and their punishment would be walking around in gym clothes all day.

Then if they don't return the clothes, fine them. They had no problem fining people for library books, so why not just do that?

Yeah I really don't understand how you Americans do dress code. Like oh noooo a female has a shoulder showing!!! Here females are allowed to wear whatever they feel like, even if it's a half transparent bra and stomach showing shirt. And as far as I'm aware the males are not THAT distracted by it. Teen males are gonna have wandering thoughts no matter anyway.