oggbashan
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I've benefited from this many times, especially in high school, when the dress code for girls was much, much looser than it was for boys.
That said, it annoys the hell out of me. Ever notice that while male symphony members are usually dressed in tuxes, many of the women look like they donned a cheap, black cotton dress for the evening?
When I was in my senior year at High School in Australia, the dress code was a grey lounge suit with a school tie, and when arriving or leaving the school grounds, a trilby hat with the hat ribbon in the school colours. Younger pupils wore a blazer and a school cap. Captains and Vice-Captains of the various sports teams used to wear the blazer with merit additions to the badge on the blazer and a distinctive cap for their sport with added gold trim on the peak.
The dress code was modified by hot weather. If the shade temperature reached 100F we could remove our suit jackets or blazers. If it reached 105F we could remove our ties.
All the students at the parallel girls school wore blazers. The senior year wore plaid skirts (hem at least 3 inches below the knee) white blouses, white knee stockings, their school tie and a straw boater with a ribbon in the school colours. In the summer term younger girls wore a distinctively striped summer dress (dress hem at least 3 inches below the knee), the blazer, and the boater. In the Spring and Autumn terms the juniors wore a different plaid skirt.
The school outfitters for both schools produced the outfits in lightweight materials for summer wear, but both sexes perspired.
During external examinations the dress code was in abeyance. Just as well for me. I took my Latin examination in a glass-roofed examination hall. The temperature inside the hall during that examination reached 108F. I still passed Latin.
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