The great sock debate

I guess we all carry a bit of the past around in us from earliest days at school, to perhaps going to secondary school, our first real job and so on but perhaps that's a barrier to understanding that today maybe things are different and even perhaps what was normal for even then wasn't necessarily the case for others.

For those of us of a certain age our first school told parents what if any the uniform policy was, some had more a dress code you were expected to keep within in, others a rigid uniform that had to bought and worn OR else!

By high school we saw the prospectus and what it had to say around that and maybe compared notes with mates who perhaps attended a different one to us.

Surprisingly school appeared to have a lot to say about socks, that they should be branded, the length and if they had to have a turn over top.

The bigger thing was colour and most specified grey or for high schools with long trousers, black was common.

On the otherhand girls tended to told they had to be white which somehow got translated into white socks are "girly" and by extension had no business being on any boy and some that still carries on in the world of the adult little boy/schoolboy .

What tends to be forgotten is often sports socks for boys were white as in this example having worn many a pair myself, often for things like Maypole Dancing you had white pumps and socks and even some football socks were.

White socks and wearing them doesn't make you a girl even if many of your peers may not and within the ASB/ALB field really isn't an issue, just being in little headspace is what matters.

Spun events

Things that seem odd is like why did dad run several of my socks through when it was the  machine showed up "pump failure", broke down and he put them on a radiator when I seriously doubt as the drum didn't run they have not been properly rinsed and have a major outbreak of white flaky stuff all over them that doesn't seem to want to go.

I suspect these pairs will need to replaced from a well known stockist for around £13 to 15 per sock while I do have some unopened spare y fronts to replaced stiff as card ones washed too

Said machine is meant to replaced yesterday - as ever this written a little in advance - which neccessiated some movement of things as the back door opens outward rather than inwoods so everything has to pass through the front door, then through to the living room and door from there to the kitchen.

That uncovered this great 1990 survey with interesting pictures of UK Boys Prep schools of the 1980's which is an interesting read of itself and obviously a start point for getting your ALB/ASB uniform a good match for how it was back then so it is realistic.