I had to wear school uniform at my secondary school.. and actually I didn’t mind too much; it was simple to get dressed and green is my favourite colour, and I even like the bottle green of our uniform. We had plain green skirts, white blouses or white or pale blue polo shirts, green tie with a light blue stripe, and a bottle green jumper or cardigan. There were all sorts of rules about indoor and outdoor shoes, lengths of skirts (when mini-skirts were in) but on the whole I thought it was a sensible and practical uniform. We also had games kit, green divided skirts, airtex tops… and bottle green knickers…
So it was only right that when our school year had a reunion celebrating our time at The Cambridgeshire County High School for Girls, we should have a cake with a particular design:
Lois Elsden 
You can watch a really beautiful cake. Too bad I can not taste, exquisite green, for us the green color of hope …
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I really can say that I don’t think I have ever seen a cake with a pair of knickers on top of it before!
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The old teachers had a good laugh too!
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I bet they did – what an excellent idea.
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Omg, I had to wear bottle green knickers too – thick and all-consuming ones! It’s left me with an emotional inability to wear anything flimsy now!
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Some of my old school friends have a serious aversion to bottle green… I still quite like it!
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Cute idea – I hope the cake was good!
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It was very good… but there had been such a lovely buffet already that we were too full to eat much of it!
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In my days we would wear navy blue pe knickers or leotard in later years
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Young people these days would be horrified – although in actual fact, when you see sports gear these days, the little shorts aren’t that different – except for being in jolly colours!
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True today shorts in nice colours but lot shorter and tighter
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Navy blue divided skirts for pe. But navy blue knickers for netball. This has briught back many memories. A muddy cold hockey pitch with a voluminous divided skirt which was uncomfortable at the best of times.
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Divided skirts surely are one of the items of clothing in Satan’s wardrobe – must have been designed by a man!
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Do they still do cross country runs. Ours was along along a country park, through a town and back to school. All in pe knickers and an aertex blouse. Then memories of the shrinking skirts came back. Left home with a skirt just above the knee, caught the bus and it was mid thigh, after assembly and the hem went higher. The only lesson the skirt went to knee length was chemistry as it was on the first floor and lads positioned themselves so they could look up your skirt.
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I think some schools still do -thank goodness we didn’t have to do them – I could swim as far as you like, and fit as I was I was hopeless at running! My dad used to cycle past my cousin as she waited at the bus stop – of course they never acknowledged each-other – but he used to see her rolling the top of her skirt over to make it shorter! This was a long time before there were boys at the school!
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Then there was the skort. Another male invention, half skirt and half shorts, that covered the front beautifully but highlighted the backside. I found them uncomfortable and as for leotards, let’s not go there.
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Utterly ridiculous item of clothing! Obviously designed by someone who would never wear them!
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