0 a plain dress without sleeves usually worn over a shirt, especially in the past, by girls as a part of their school uniform
Distinct summer and winter uniforms were sometimes required, particularly for girls where dresses were mandated for summer and gymslip for winter.
Keynote designs are her take on the shirt, gymslip, lace-up shoes, duffle coat and trench coat.
Reasons given are humiliating clothes—the gymslip syndrome—and a focus on less popular sports.
I have been told that some of them object to the wearing of gymslips, although the chairman did not say that.
They have tossed aside broken promises like discarded gymslips.