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General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: CLKD on May 01, 2020, 12:17:55 PM
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Anyone remember lads lifting uniform skirts in school?
Maypole dancing?
Making daisy chains?
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Anyone remember lads lifting uniform skirts in school?
Er no. Is that some strange Norfolk custom. ;D
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National 1st of May, Petticoat Day ;D
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;D
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No
No
Yes.
Can't say i ever had a petticoat, but i had a vest. :)
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What! no liberty bodice?
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Yes to daisy chains. I wore a liberty bodice when very small in the early 50s but don't remember much about it, except that it had a lot of buttons down the front. No maypoles in the inner city that I knew of! As to Petticoat Day, I'm with Shadyglade on that one.
JP x
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Oh yes Maypole dancing remember doing that at school, even doing the Maypole at the local fete.
Used to love making daisy chains - haven't made one in years.
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Children in the school where I work make countless daisy chains at break and lunch. They also still play the 'do you like butter' game with buttercups.
Maypole dancing still takes place in some schools but we don't have one at ours.
Lifting skirts - either those belonging to boys or girls - would lead to a serious conversation with the head teacher nowadays.
Taz x ;D
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the buttons on liberty bodices were rubber ? and mine had suspenders on too :-\
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Ooooh, we are seeing a whole new side to you CLKD. :D ;D
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....... it's surprising what lock down might reveal :lol:
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Anyone remember lads lifting uniform skirts in school?
When I was a young teacher in the mid 70s, we had a spate of little boys lifting the little girls? skirts in my reception class. We were rather alarmed, until I carefully questioned a little boy. They just wanted to see the pictures on the little girls knickers. Remember when knickers were nylon and they first started printing pictures on them ? It was all so innocent!
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toilets 'across the yard' ............ which was skiddy with ice and snow 'cos we had Proper Winters then ;D
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That wouldn't be possible in the Primary School that I attended as the block really was 'across the yard' ........ at least they flushed!
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I have no idea what any of you are talking about other than pants!! I must be too young or it wasn't a Scottish thing!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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You're too young ;D
from a US-based site:
Jane Says:
May 3rd, 2009 at 10:14 am
Would like to know all seven days of May. Am sure there is a necktie day, pigtail day and kissing day (seventh of May) in addition to petticoat day and shoelace day. And I guess it was a New Jersey thing as that is where I grew up and my friends knew it but can't remember all of it. Thanks for any help.
Lisa Says:
May 3rd, 2009 at 11:12 am
I still haven't found an answer yet. But I did find out something interesting about May 1st, or May Day, being petticoat Day.
The Puritans did not like the festivities of May Day. So they ended many of the May Day customs in England ? which they thought were Heathenish. However, according to ?The Story of the London Parks? (1815) by L. R. Sadler, ?young and old still continued to hallow May day with a display of their best silk petticoats and velvet doublets, ruff's and farthingales.
Hyde Park was the place to be seen in spick and span new finery on that day?? So people would still dress up on May 1st and that's why it was ?petticoat day?.