Quite bizarre how some teachers became so obsessive and sadistic with an unattractive piece of footwear. Luckily for me never slippered.
A few lads took a couple of stinging whacks by PE teachers for dirty kit, pumps included, unlike us girls being more hygienic in these matters.
Strangely, received a couple of detentions for using that wonderful paint on white pump cleaner during school hours, well did have something to do with a bit of a side line, trading pristine whitened plimsolls, for homework.
Can only concluded that a class of brilliant white pump owners deprived a particular teacher of a bit of right hand swinging. hypocrite his whacko plimsoll was minging
My Primary school plimsolls were also black which made much more sense