• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com
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    7 hours ago

    Age does. It was very, very common ~35 years ago, especially in urban or country schools where money wasn’t spent on “such frivolous things”.

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      34 minutes ago

      I was in high school in the early 2000s and even we did it. Apparently the school I was at was a sports academy as well, so presumably that meant they had some money to work with.

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      6 hours ago

      I can confirm it occurred in my experience about 20 years ago. We had a set of color vests, but those were for the girls.