[ SECRET POST #2694 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2694 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[General Hospital]


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[Homestuck, The Other Woman, Pacific Rim, Naruto, X-Men]


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[The Ear, the Eye and the Arm]


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[Warehouse 13]


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[Alton Brown and Anthony Bourdain]


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[YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of This World]


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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]


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[Magic: the Gathering]


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[Smallville]













Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 046 secrets from Secret Submission Post #385.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - posted twice ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: School Dress Codes

[ansela_jonla]

In my school, especially just after I left, it was because of the sheer cost of it.

When I was there, they just said "black sweater (round or v-neck), black or grey trousers/skirt, white shirt/blouse, black and white striped tie, black shoes, black hijab or turban if applicable". PE uniform was black shorts, white polo shirt. You could get all those things cheaply enough, although buying a sweater with the school's logo on was pretty expensive.

Then they shifted to a more formal uniform. Logoed blazers and logoed sweaters (which both had to be worn, at the same time), a tie according to house colour, logoed PE uniforms. And these could only be bought from one supplier, and they weren't cheap. You were looking at £200 for a full uniform; imagine kitting out more than one kid at once?

Re: School Dress Codes

[(Anonymous)]

this was an issue at my Catholic high school Very specific uniform requirements that required you to buy your poor-quality clothes from a particular outfitter for a shit-ton of money. None of it was even remotely re-usable as work or casual wear, either (except maybe the socks, MAYBE)

Re: School Dress Codes

[ryttu3k]

Oh god, this was the case at my private school. (I was there for about... a year.) Summer uniform for juniors (grade seven to ten) was a striped, logoed, collared, short-sleeved dress, white socks, black shoes, logoed blazer, and logoed panama hat, winter had long-sleeved white shirt, logoed woolen sweater or vest (guess who has a lanolin allergy and would return home every day with bright red wrists from where they were longer than my shirts!), tartan skirt, logoed tie, navy stockings or knee-high socks, black shoes, and the blazer and hat again.

That's not including the sports uniforms (summer and winter), swimming costume, and any extra costumes, like my gymnastics uniform. Oh, and there was also the mandatory schoolbag. And the only place it could be bought for was the on-campus uniform shop.

Whole kit and caboodle could run up to $1,000 a year, and yeah, I can't imagine having more than one daughter there. (All-girls school. Actually, never mind that, I can't imagine the sheer unadulterated horror of being trans, nonbinary, or otherwise gender-nonconforming there. I was already branded a freak and various other homophobic remarks for not having a desperate desire to get a boyfriend from the nearby boys school - not that my bloody classmates were a much better prospect! - it could have been a lot worse if I wasn't cis.)

There were uniform prefects. If you were caught out of the school yard in anything less than full uniform - including the freaking hat and blazer, IN SUMMER, AT FOUR O'CLOCK ON A FRIDAY AFTERNOON, you got an instant after-school detention.

I'm so fucking happy I left over just after a year. *broken sobbing*