When I went through grade school and high school boys wore dress pants or jeans, your choice. Girls had choice of dress pants, jeans or dress. NO Shorts in school but permitted for after school practice of school sports and we had no AC in the humid and stifling heat of eastern Kentucky.
Heck I never had AC at home until I was nearly 11 yrs. old! You used a window fan and floor fan. You stayed outside until dark, then clean up and bed time. Pansies need to suck it up buttercups!
Same here...but only grew up in western Kentucky.
These kids wouldn’t know how to handle the average Summer in the Southeastern US or the Southwest. English kiddies: Take your pick between still, humid air and temperatures in the 90s, or low humidity and temperatures above 100.
Same here. High school during the 80s in Houston. With the humidity, it was worse than here in AZ.
No shorts except during gym or after school practice. If you were hurt or sick during gym, you were expected to change before going to the nurse. No sweatpants. No tank tops, spaghetti straps, crop tops, or off the shoulder tops. No offensive t-shirts or shirts advertising alcohol or tobacco products. Skirts had to be 2 inches below your fingertips. No obvious hair dye. No “distracting” haircuts. Boys had to wear a belt and their hair could not touch their shirt collar. Boys had to be clean shaven. The boys dean kept disposable razors for the boys that forgot.
Today’s kids have it easy...
Got my first AC when I was 16, found it in the garbage. Fixed it and charged it at my friends dads shop and had to pay my dad 25 bucks a month to run it. Summers in NY are awful, worth every penny.