Does private education lead the way in school uniforms?

[landsurfer]

I was supposed to go to the Masonic School in Dublin at the age of 8 ...... as a border ... My mum refused their kind offer wanting me to stay at home .......I would have loved to go !!!!!!! .. i really would ........ but, my life has been good .... more than good ... doubleplusgood !! even .
Brill, etc ....

I believe its a Premier Inn now ....

[pwa]

Private schools vary a lot in quality. Some are not as good as the better comps. A relative of mine is headteacher of a small private school and is so fed up of having to deal with drugs issues that they want to leave. And I remember a child in the comp where my wife teaches leaving to go to a private school, only to return the next year having failed to make good progress. Some (not all) private schools are a waste of money.

[661-Pete]

Some memories are coming back now.

At my (all boys) secondary* they used to stage a play once a year. The female roles were, naturally, all assigned to boys - juniors whose voices hadn't yet broken. I vaguely recall having told someone once that I didn't ever want to dress in drag, I must have had an aversion to it.

I never got auditioned for any of the School plays - save once, and that was for a part as a small boy. I think I just wasn't in with the right 'set' . Or maybe my acting ability wasn't up to it. Or it could have been - what I said?

Anyway others in the school weren't so inhibited. I remember one of my classmates relating how his brother - also in the school and playing a 'leading lady' - had taken his costume home, donned it, and paraded around Croydon shopping centre wearing it. All without being accosted - or challenged. Of course I don't know whether this story was true. And if it was - I don't think there's any connection with gender dysphoria. The boy in question was probably just doing it 'for a larf'.

*also independent, I confess!

[Edwards]

Was St Trinians a private school? Some of their uniform ideas were classic.

[old_windbag]

Was St Trinians a private school? Some of their uniform ideas were classic.

They were, but you aren't allowed to think of things like that, go and say three hail mary's or whatever sinners do to get off the hook.



This is from the modern remake which is odd. We have grown women, dressing provocatively in schoolgirl outfits, in a time where such thoughts or images would be totally non pc. Yet it is the women who are happy to put that imagery out. I think nuns on the run is better for our times .

[mercalia]

Some memories are coming back now.

At my (all boys) secondary* they used to stage a play once a year. The female roles were, naturally, all assigned to boys - juniors whose voices hadn't yet broken. I vaguely recall having told someone once that I didn't ever want to dress in drag, I must have had an aversion to it.

I never got auditioned for any of the School plays - save once, and that was for a part as a small boy. I think I just wasn't in with the right 'set' . Or maybe my acting ability wasn't up to it. Or it could have been - what I said?

Anyway others in the school weren't so inhibited. I remember one of my classmates relating how his brother - also in the school and playing a 'leading lady' - had taken his costume home, donned it, and paraded around Croydon shopping centre wearing it. All without being accosted - or challenged. Of course I don't know whether this story was true. And if it was - I don't think there's any connection with gender dysphoria. The boy in question was probably just doing it 'for a larf'.

*also independent, I confess!

probably thought he was just an ugly girl

[Edwards]

I was actually thinking of the Pinafore dress tie and hat. The type of picture shown on the TV of the really posh schools, normally showing little angels.

Then contrasting that to the Lower Fifth in the original films. Who spread fear and terror to all.

The uniform is not as important as behavior.

[pete75]

Was St Trinians a private school? Some of their uniform ideas were classic.

They were, but you aren't allowed to think of things like that, go and say three hail mary's or whatever sinners do to get off the hook.



This is from the modern remake which is odd. We have grown women, dressing provocatively in schoolgirl outfits, in a time where such thoughts or images would be totally non pc. Yet it is the women who are happy to put that imagery out. I think nuns on the run is better for our times .

The real St Trinians girls......

[661-Pete]

On the topic of St Trinians: the re-make is all very well, but none can measure up to the peerless Alastair Sim in the original:

....in drag, of course!

[landsurfer]

Was St Trinians a private school? Some of their uniform ideas were classic.

They were, but you aren't allowed to think of things like that, go and say three hail mary's or whatever sinners do to get off the hook.



This is from the modern remake which is odd. We have grown women, dressing provocatively in schoolgirl outfits, in a time where such thoughts or images would be totally non pc. Yet it is the women who are happy to put that imagery out. I think nuns on the run is better for our times .

The real St Trinians girls......

1st pic. Group of highly sexualised women pretending to be schoolgirls.
2nd pic. Group of happy girls.
Personally i am uncomfortable with the concept of "schoolgirls" being sex items ... I have Daughters...and Granddaughters.
It's wrong.
Schoolgirls are children.

[old_windbag]

On the topic of St Trinians: the re-make is all very well, but none can measure up to the peerless Alastair Sim in the original

Yes I wasn't equating the modern remake to the quality of sim's version. Thats different. I haven't seen the st trinians remake just the women getting interviewed on tv at the time of its release. But it's not often a remake beats an original. With many they're often an insult to the originals and to be avoided. I'd not entertain the idea of going to a cinema, horrible experience, like having 500 people in your living room.

There were some pretty high quality films produced from 1945-55( even in the war years Henry V etc ), one of my favourites amongst several is Great Expectations with john mills and valerie hobson. Also "ice cold in alex", anthony quayle performing brilliantly as he nearly drowns in quicksand( he did act that scene ). The neat method of reversing the ambulance up the dune by removal of spark plugs and turning cranking handle in reverse gear has been shown to work.

Personally i am uncomfortable with the concept of "schoolgirls" being sex items ...

Hey I didn't make the film. But it made about $29 million with $11 million dollars production costs so not a total flop, it must have a real audience.

[661-Pete]

Way off topic, I know, but concerning re-makes: yes most of them are far worse than the original. But there are exceptions. I think the War of the Worlds (the Tom Cruise version), for all its modern CGI and SFX, is a bit of an improvement on the awful 1953 version. At least, I think the 1953 one is awful. Do others agree?

Ice Cold In Alex. Yes, I think it's one of the best films ever, too. "Worth waiting for...." They don't make 'em like they used to!

[Tangled Metal]

As bad as the original, anything with Tom Cruise in cannot be better. YMMV.

[mercalia]

2 BAD REMAKES-

flight of the phoenix. The original you realy felt they were in a desert, life draining away, the remake just going thru the motions?
and Sgt Bilko ( well a remake of a tv series - it wasnt called the Phil Silvers show for nothing?)

I am just glad that no one has had the nerve to redo "12 Angry Men" - I am really an action person but that film.....wonderful: but one thing they got wrong, I some times do sleep with my glasses on so the young kid did do it

[Tangled Metal]

Didn't Hancock do a skit of that film with Sid James?