This uniform was a well-known one – in summer we wore a prep school uniform,
in winter we wore basically the same uniform as the senior school we would go to in Year 9
(except we wore shorts rather than long trousers). The uniform had been worn for over 60 years by this stage – people recognized it.
Now this is Australia – in mid winter this uniform wasn’t too bad,
but we went into it somewhere around the start of May and while that was often a cold period you could still get the occasional 25 or 26 degree day – that’s Celsius, works out to about 77/78 Fahrenheit.
Not the type of temperatures that made you melt – but still hot enough that you’d want to shed the jacket and tie if you could.
Which you couldn’t. At least not according to the rules.
But boys did anyway.