A fashion for uniformity

I looked at the new pink patch on my jeans. I never wore a school uniform because in the ’70s schools were keen for children to have freedom to express themselves. A result was that if you looked different you got picked on. So my pink patch meant that I was going to have a fight. I wished we had a school uniform. So as adolescents many of us joined the music gangs—new romantics, mod revival, metalists, and punks. As a teenager …