School Belt16

I went to school in the Lothians, a very large school, with a modern extension to a tatty old school which it had definitely outgrown. Although a fairly conservative part of the country the period in
question was around 1976, the ’60’s had almost reached Scotland and people were ‘letting their hair down’, quite literally. The dowdy uniform code (for the boys a black blazer with crest, grey long trousers, white shirt and school tie, was enforced with gusto, but the one tiny freedom allowed was that we all prety much got to grow our hair as oddly as our parents would tolerate. Then they began a ‘radical’ experiment. Casual clothes for ‘Sixth Year Studies’. My God, you would have thought they had passed a motion to hand out free condoms with the dinner tickets. Just imagine. Laddies and Lassies, even if they were 17/18, going to school without their uniform! The scandal!!