Today, many private schools have their students wear polo shirts in the school colours, and girls wear skirts instead of pinafores.
The children themselves were encouraged to bring peat in their arms or in their pinafores across the hills in order to contribute to the lighting of the school fires.
The methods of "pinafores today and buttons tomorrow" cannot apply to agriculture.
The title of the piece comically applies the name of a garment for girls and women, a pinafore, to the fearsome symbol of a naval warship.
Girls: red checked pinafore and white blouse, with black shoes and red socks and the school tie and badge.
When not worn as athletic wear, gymslips or pinafore dresses are generally worn over a blouse and tie and replace a skirt.
Girls mainly wore blouse, tunic dress and pinafore later progressing towards the beginning of the 20th century to gymslips.
A child's garment to wear at school or for play would be a pinafore.
