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Angela Woodford wrote: I'm sure you looked lovely in the cycle shorts, but a lycra catsuit would have been superb!

Did anyone else have one?


Munch

This was drama school, the average age was around 20. 80% of the students were female, half of the rest were gay.

Yes, there were a few catsuits around.

kerrensimmonds wrote:Am sure Angela is pleased that you think she was at Hertford in the war years! Aertex was (is?) a loose woven heavy cotton, so that your skin could 'breathe' through the 'holes'.
The badge to which I referred was called 'Colours'. They were presented to outstanding sports people for specific sports. I got mine for hockey. While at school I got the school crest to sew on my blazer pocket, and when I left I got a different 'Old Girls' badge to everyone else. In fact DRW borrowed it back from me a couple of years later, so that it could be copied (they had run out....).

See? Kerren, Sports Star!

Can't remember this crest at all, neither a different OG badge. Wow. Impressed.

Philip, I, er, was not at CH during the war. However, I could begin masquerading as a Mature Woman of Wisdom!

Munch

Angela Woodford wrote:Philip, I, er, was not at CH during the war. However, I could begin masquerading as a Mature Woman of Wisdom!

Munch

Silly me, I thought those silly laughing emotiwotsits would indicate it was a JOKE!!!!

If you can't be arsed with name tags, writing your house initials & number on the label with permanent marker works fine.
If feeling protective of shoes, we were advised to superglue a name tag inside Looks fkin silly but works

Ajarn Philip wrote:

Angela Woodford wrote: I'm sure you looked lovely in the cycle shorts, but a lycra catsuit would have been superb!

Did anyone else have one?


Munch

This was drama school, the average age was around 20. 80% of the students were female, half of the rest were gay.

Yes, there were a few catsuits around.

I am off sick at home today, that little riposte has brightened the afternoon

I won't ask which group you were trying to be in

I hate aertexes. They've probably advanced alot since then but I'm sure the general principal is the same. They're ridiculously freezing in the winter spesh when combined with only a pair of cycling shorts.brrrrr.

Lycra catsuit?. Was this for school uniform or a re-enaction of Fame?.

Sporty?. Me?..................No.
I'm honestly rubbish at most sports. Especially ones which involve balls. I can't catch them, throw them, whack them with a racket or stick etc. I'm only variably passable at Fencing or Rock Climbing.

I wanted to just write my name in things, but I prefer to have lables in the clothes than permanent marker. The labels can always be removed and since I'm going to need new ones next year, permanent marker isn't the best Idea.

kerrensimmonds wrote:The badge to which I referred was called 'Colours'. They were presented to outstanding sports people for specific sports. I got mine for hockey. While at school I got the school crest to sew on my blazer pocket, and when I left I got a different 'Old Girls' badge to everyone else. In fact DRW borrowed it back from me a couple of years later, so that it could be copied (they had run out....).

I thought we all had the blazer badges by the time you got your colours Kerren - you did get a little H to sew on the blazer pocket if I remember correctly. Certainly when we started at the school it was only people with colours who had the school crest on the blazer. Didn't you get a silver badge with a crest to wear on your uniform?

As far as I remember it was only the First XI at hockey who had skirts, which we wore with bright yellow blouses. I did play in the First for one term with Kerren as a spectacularly unsuccesful goalie! She charged up and down as if her life depended on it. I thought she was in most of the other first teams as well. I would not have been surprised if she had said she had colours for cricket and tennis as well as hockey.

gemmygemmerson wrote:The labels can always be removed

Don't bet on it. I think we've talked about this elsewhere, but most of us on here have probably still got items of school kit which have our name tags on them. I have towels, flannels and duvet covers with Col A 20 stitched across, and my elephant, Ermintrude, has House 1 number 12 emblazoned across her leg. I kept my rugby shirts for ages for painting and gardening (it seemed a shame to get rid as they were so expensive at the outset) and they had to have the name tag on the outside of the bottom hem for easy identification. You can't physically get rid of CH even when you've left!

Ermmm Memory letting me down here. I don't remember any silvery things to sew on, only the CH crest on my blazer pocket. And as for a yellow blouse in which to play hockey... erm.. no, sorry, there also. But I am quite prepared to admit that my memory is selective and thus faulty. And no, although I was very sporting (you wouldn't believe it now, seeing me overweight, arthritic, and with a disabled Blue Badge.....) I only had colours for hockey. IFrom a fairly young age I was in the First teams for Tennis, cricket (at 15 I was said to be the youngest ever member of the First Cricket team) and hockey, and also in the Seconds for netball - but I only got my moment of glory - eventually - for hockey. And in those days, we even had a different type of hockey stick (big, gently curved head) from that which they use these days (small and tightly curled head).
Thank goodness we did not have to wear lycra or catsuits (coming back to this thread) for any of our sporting activity. Aertex was bad enough....

Me again. It was refeshing to learn about Ermintrude the Helephant and the name/number tag on her leg! I have LOADS of books with 'CMW' (my Housemistress' initals) written in pencil inside the front cover, indicating her agreement that the book(s) were suitable to take back to school. I think we were allowed to take back three a term? I also have a padded coat hanger, with my name and house number, on a piece of paper, attached with a cross stitch in each of the four corners. This was the hanger on which I presented my final 'needlework' - the suit which I was to wear the day I left school, aged 18......
How sad is that, 41 years later......

gemmygemmerson wrote:I hate aertexes.

lol - that's a blast rom the past. At Hertford if we had a tight fitting one we called them TG's I'm sure JR will work that one out

You can order sticky heel shaped labels from Clarks shops for shoes.

Vonny wrote:

gemmygemmerson wrote:I hate aertexes.

lol - that's a blast rom the past. At Hertford if we had a tight fitting one we called them TG's I'm sure JR will work that one out

It really wasn't too hard to wok out.

J.R. wrote:It really wasn't too hard to wok out.

Ah, JR, I couldn't help but notice what fun you get leaping on little slips of the finger... This one's a gift from the Gods (of Chinese cooking.)

Time for a little payback, one and all?