School Fashion: Our top classroom clothing styles of yesteryear - tell us yours

Whether it’s rolled up skirts, a pristine pair of Kickers or an abnormally large knot in your school tie – we want to hear what the height of fashion was during your school days.

While the Farnworth school’s new look has been well-received by pupils, not all school wear proves as popular.

Did PE once fill you with fear of the dreaded gym knickers, or the onset of summer see that awful gingham dress brought out of winter retirement?

Whatever your classroom clothing memories, we want to hear them.

To get you started, below are three examples of de rigueur from yesteryear and we want you to help us create the definitive guide.

Add your thoughts in comments below and we'll keep adding to the list...

Kickers

For something so synonymous with British schooldays, it might surprise some to learn that these garish moccasin-inspired creations are French. Created in 1970, they had two definitive fashion spikes – one in the 1980s when kids were reported queuing until 10pm for deliveries and the second on the back of Madchester, when the likes of the Stone Roses circumvented the Hacienda’s ‘no trainers’ policy with a pair of the newly released Kick Hi boots.

‘Fat’ knot tie

Often glimpsed during episodes of Grange Hill in the 1970s, the ‘fat knot’ tie made a massive comeback in the late noughties as the style of choice among Britain’s high school kids. The perceived lack of discipline the knot suggested even prompted the Government’s education tsar to suggest it was partly responsible for bad behaviour.

Rolled up skirt

The method of rolling one’s skirt up to counter mum and dad’s insistence on an ankle-hugger is a timeless and flawless strategy. One could leave home looking unfashionable and demure and roll-up en route to class, arriving with a fashionable above-knee number. The ‘fat roll’ of material that accumulated around the midriff like an undrawn roller blind often alerted keen-eyed teachers to the ploy, necessitating the unsightly overhang of a baggy shirt, which somewhat put paid to one’s attempts at being provocative.

Farah trousers, as suggested by SomertonRoadLad

Behind Levis’ famous red label, the lesser-recognised orange tag ‘F’ of Farah trousers indicated a young man who wasn’t exactly following the school’s trouser policy. Farah pants tended to have a more appealing range of styles than the one-size-fits all straight-cuts of the school-wear market, helping slimmer lads finally ditch that appearance of having donned their elder brother’s hand-me-downs.

Grolsch bottle tops, as suggested by antognism bard

As if 80s boy band Bros didn’t have enough to answer for, the peroxide blonde twins also perpetuated one of the more puzzling playground trends of yesteryear: installing Grolsch bottle tops in one’s shoelaces. This perplexing trend swept schools across the country. Its impact on underage drinking is unknown.

Jane Norman bags, as suggested by Aims X

If you were a girl 90s and didn’t have one of these slung over your shoulder, then you might as well have not left the house. The day glow colours and bold typeface of the Jane Norman bag ensured anyone within a two mile line of sight could see you were the height of fashion, though it might surprise Britpop era kids to know Jane Norman is owned by the distinctly less fashionable Edinburgh Woollen Mill.

Rockport boots, as suggested by BWFC1988

Massive in a fashion sense and – literally – massive. Rockport boots filled the vacuum left by Kickers’ fall from grace. Marketing of these gargantuan hikers got a shot in the arm when the Massachusetts-based creators sold to British firm Reebok in the late 80s, paving the way for an explosion in popularity. Initially the preserve of only the toughest lads in school, these soon went mainstream, with girls even getting in on the act.

Ellesse tracksuit top, as suggested by Stevo123

Big news in the 1990s, the Ellesse brand is currently undergoing a massive revival as of 2015. The Italian sportswear manufacturer has been owned by the British Pentland Group since 1994. Its Umbrian heritage mixed with mid 90s Cool-Britannia popularity has been seized upon by the current generation, marking another schoolyard revival for the brand which manufactured kits for the New York Cosmos in the 1980s