School uniform

I recently visited the website of a school that I used to know well and was surprised (shocked!) to see that the pupils were wearing 'home' clothes. The school used to have such a lovely uniform. So what happened? My DH thinks that a lot of schools have abandoned uniforms now. I do remember being quite proud of wearing my uniform, although there were lots of rules which seem silly now, such as 'food should not be eaten in the street when wearing school uniform.' We were also forever being urged to behave well in public when wearing the uniform ( perhaps no-one cared how we behaved when not in uniform!), as the school would be judged on the public behaviour of its girls. The uniform was so strict too! One girl I remember had those 'Edna Average' type glasses with removable top wings. We wore a choice of four different coloured candy striped dresses in summer and this particular girl (hope she is not on Gransnet as I'm sure she will remember!) changed the colour of the wings to match the particular colour of the dress she was wearing that day. Such fun!!