We had a non-uniform day recently and as usual we got the full range of the latest trends. There are several categories of clothing that the pupils wear. Boys, regardless of age or peer group, will wear hoodies, something with stripes or some combination of the two. This will always be accompanied by jeans, which means they dress pretty much the same way as I do. Girls clearly spend more time thinking about it and will wear a wide variety of attire. Mostly this will involve something furry/fluffy. This is usually hoods, cuffs, boots and belts. They stop short of wearing fluffy dice as earrings though. Just. I think fluff must be the new bling, though I'm never sure if bling is supposed to be cool or not anyway. Whatever, it's quite sweet really.
I always think it makes the kids look younger than they do when they're in the school uniform. Which is nice because I feel all grown up in comparison, even if on these days I actually look like a sixth former. Unfortunately there's always a few of the older girls who confuse non-unform days with 'wear as little as possible' days. It's a bit gross really, and it's funny how it's the, er, attractively-challenged ones who feel the need to do this. I overheard one girl telling a boy in her class that her face was 'up here'. Poor lad was probably trying to look anywhere but.
It's odd in a way because these same girls are the ones we spend the rest of the time constantly telling off for wearing non-uniform tops. You'd think they'd use the opportunity to wear as many of these as possible. Strange how it doesn't work like that.