Wednesday, November 3, 2010

School Uniform-Pride or Fashion Disaster?

In our opinion, Queenstown's uniform does not really represent Queenstownians in any way. Unlike some schools with creative designs, our school uniform colours are too common. We understand we are an old school so the uniform colours were limited at that point of time.
However, we recently modified the uniform but the only difference is the material and certain designs. It is too alike to other schools like Gan Eng Seng primary school, and looks very similar to Henderson and so on. It is so similar that people are unable to tell which school we are from and actually mistake us for another school.
Our school uniform should be something that sets us apart from other schools-something that represents when we are not in the school compound. If we all had the same looking uniform, then what it is the point of having a uniform? This is why we believe that the uniform does not give us any form of identity.
As a school, should we not have a unique uniform that we can feel proud of individually? Especially after modifying the uniform, our school is not united as some would wear the "new' uniform and others would wear the "old" one.
I would not call it a "fashion disaster". Our uniform is not tremendously ugly that we are so embarrassed wearing it. It is just that really plain and boring. This is why we have problems like altering uniforms. The uniform is made in a straight-cut way, which may not be suitable for everyone. For example, for certain students, it is so baggy that they have to constantly tuck their shirt in as it keeps falling out.
Therfore, frankly speaking, we do not feel proud wearing the Queenstown uniform.
Patrizha and Simone (:

1 comment:

  1. Hi! Regarding your last point about uniforms being made in a straight cut way, I don't think there's any problem with it being that way. How else should the uniform be designed? In the curved cut way? I think straight cut is the most suitable design. The problem about the shirt being "baggy", I think that's just a matter of the size of the uniform. If it's too baggy, then probably a smaller size will fit the person.

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