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Bit of a late start for the September challenge but, as some schools have only just gone back, how about painting any subject you like but only using the colours of your old school uniforms?
With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, NAPA

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Right, everyone: this is where we pretend our old school uniforms included white, red, yellow, and blue - oh, and a hint of green. 
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Lewis Cooper

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I'd forgotten about this one.  Tricky.  Must give it a go. Here's a pic I did of me in my last year at school for another project...aged nearly 16.   As I was about to leave school Mum and Dad didn't get me a new jacket, they couldn't afford it.  Back then school uniforms came from specialist shops and were very expensive.  Much too big when I first got it...so I could grow into it....I'd done that, and was now growing out of it. This isn't my entry for this challenge.  It's unassailable evidence of my uniform colours.  As if I'd tell porky's about that. So...grey trousers (supposed to be grey anyway), white shirt, green blazer and cap, yellow badge with black letter, and yellow and black tie. GREY-WHITE-GREEN-YELLOW-BLACK. Must give it a go, after I've finished what I'm doing.
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Skylar Brown

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I went to several schools, so I chose the one from which I graduated.  Those colors were green & gold...
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Fabulous - well done, young sir!  My school's colours were - I went to three - blue, and more blue; black, with a red, white, gold and blue badge, plus a red tie;  and black with blue and yellow, with a rather sickly tie in dark blue, gold, and maroon.   Green featured in none of them - but then: we can mix green!  So I could get away with more or less anything under this challenge.  I think Dawn has got a bit tired of thinking new things up to torture us with, or she'd not have made this so easy; I blame the hot days of late Summer.  I'm sure she'll be back in full Cruella De Ville mode next month. But again, fine work, Skylar.
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Lew - I so well remember my poor parents having to shop at the approved school uniform supplier; they had the monopoly, and they charged right up to the maximum price they could get away with.  I wonder if this racket continues today - having no children, I've not kept up with such things.  Everything was specified - football socks, plimsolls, blazers, gym slips and stockings - not my problem, those two - football boots, trousers, ties, you had to have a badge.... I'm just surprised they didn't have a prescribed form of underwear.   Annoyed me, when the only uniform the staff had to wear consisted of corduroy and tweed, with a moth-eaten gown over the top. Anyway - the Lew-look above brings back many painful memories; the idea that school uniform equalizes kids, and stops one-upmanship, is a pile of rancid old corsets - the poorer kids had obvious hand-me-downs, and were generally either cloaked in them like mobile sacks of potatoes, or squeezed into them to the point of bursting; their shoes were down at heel, the toe caps peeling back - I realize now how privileged my brother and I were, to have parents who certainly struggled against hardship but still managed to kit us out properly. Anyway, here endeth the Bolshie rant.  Yours is an appealing picture of a lad all too aware of his sartorial embarrassment, and we trust that you are now the dapper and well-tailored gent we imagine you to be.  
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Punctuation and placement issues - I did not go to an Approved School: it was the supplier who was Approved, not the school.  Should this nomenclature puzzle non-English contributors - Approved Schools were a step on the way to or from Borstal: places for the criminally inclined, or indeed criminally expert.  For Good Boys and other brats, such as myself, the Approved School was a destination one sought to avoid. Thought I'd best make this clear before someone else picks up on it.
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Peter Smith

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I can't remember what colours my uniform was!
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Robert Jones, NAPA

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Make it up, Peter: Dawn will never know - probably avoid Fuschia with Sludge-green trimmings, she might get suspicious..... Where were you at school - Eton, weren't it...?
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Helen Martell

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My secondary school didn’t have a uniform (the PTA voted to get rid of it a year after I started that school) - contrary to Robert’s comment above, the lack of uniform created more of a divide between rich and poor kids!

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My school was named after Lord Rosebery and our school colours were his racing colours - primrose and pink.  We had some rather pretty summer uniforms!  Our winter uniform was mainly dark green.   Will try to come up with something suitable for the challenge.

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Sylvia Evans

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I have memories of dark green knickers with a pocket ,we were supposed ro wear them and become all athletic....yawn.
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