Shorts Shrift

[H/T: A nice site about corporal punishment by the people behind the School Uniforms Galleries.]

Anon

I found this boy on the 'Net here. I'm guessing either Riaumont or Doran.

The Historical Boys Uniforms site mentions lederhosen.

The HBU site is a good resource clearly, but a lot of the pictures are only accessible to subscribers.

Smells like Imperial Spirit!

Not Scouts, actually, but New Zealand schoolboys, apparently, from an American blogger visiting the country last year!

Nice to think of Commonwealth countries still retaining some of B-P's "shorts and shirtsleeves" Empire spirit!

Grey Shorts

Well I certainly wore them - pretty much non-stop, in fact, at school and as a Cub, for four solid years. (And it did me no lasting phychological damage whatsoever. Woof!) Thanks to the SA's second round of mindless cultural vandalism uniform reforms in the 1980s I don't think even the Cubs wear them now.

Well, this site is dedicated to them - and no doubt also to nostalgic memories of bygone days!