The badge on the blazer does not really matter today as much as it did.
The blazer is used mainly either by secondary schoolchildren or by sportsmen.
A very good case was made out for blazers.
It is the syllabus and the quality of the teaching that make a grammar school, not the buildings and the blazer.
There is a temptation to say that too many old-fashioned ideas are held by those who wear blazers and sit on committees.
That adds up to at least £70 before taking account of blazers, shoes and other parts of the uniform.
Then there is the problem of disasters—a blazer gets torn, an essential item is lost.
We are paying more to have children wearing slightly smarter blazers.
