gym knickers
i'm sure i'm not the only female b3tan to remember the horrors of gym knickers. those horrible, thick, heavy-gusseted monstrosities were the bane of the teenage girl's life. most were either navy blue, dark green or deep maroon, depending on the colour of the school uniform.
ours were a hideous shade of maroon.
if you forgot your gym knickers, you were forced to wear a pair of crusty cast-offs from the lost property box.
if you forgot your gym skirt, you had to do the lesson in your gym knickers and gym shirt, whatever the weather. we even had to do cross country in gym knickers if we'd forgotten our skirts.
why we couldn't wear a skirt from the lost property box, i don't know.
what i do know is that, whenever we had cross country, the local old gentlemen would always be out polishing their cars or cutting the grass.
elderly pervs.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 20 Nov 2009, 15:56, 12 replies)

Our gym knickers were of the shade known sensitively as 'nigger brown'
and if you forgot them, the fearsome PE women would threaten, you would do hockey in your 'pink frillies'.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Fri 20 Nov 2009, 17:23, closed)

i'd rather that
than the ones from the lost property box
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 20 Nov 2009, 19:00, closed)

dark green
looked horrible, felt horrible.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 20 Nov 2009, 18:08, closed)

ours were dark green
when my mum was in our school. by my time, they'd changed the uniform to maroon. now it's navy blue.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 20 Nov 2009, 19:02, closed)

Always too tight...
Around the leg hole.
(I'mOffKilter can't be arsed, Fri 20 Nov 2009, 18:59, closed)

bloody hell, i'd forgotten about that!
you always ended up with elastic marks that were sore for the rest of the day!
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 20 Nov 2009, 19:03, closed)

Ours were grey
and no one wore them by the time they'd reached the third year. Boys from the school next-door used to come to 'support' all the netball matches.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Fri 20 Nov 2009, 19:07, closed)

we had no choice
they were compulsory
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 20 Nov 2009, 20:02, closed)

Really, you don't say.
Oh don't mind me. Just doing some... polishing.
(stuntsmile, Sat 21 Nov 2009, 10:34, closed)

they really clashed
with the black plimsolls and white ankle socks
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 21 Nov 2009, 20:11, closed)

Navy blue
with red stripes down the sides. *Shudders*
(Petite chien is going to do science to it, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 13:49, closed)

stripes too?
you have my sympathy!
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 24 Nov 2009, 20:13, closed)