Education and youth

Education and youth

The uniform most people wear first, and the only one most will ever be made to wear.

Collection: Education and Youth

Every type of education and youth in one place — 3 chapters, School uniform, Academic dress, Uniformed youth organisations and the rest, with the plates and an inventory to download.
Plates from the Nametape archive of education and youth

It Is Not Supposed to Fit You

Institutional clothing is sized rather than tailored, and that is a design decision rather than a budget one. A uniform that fitted each wearer perfectly would individuate them.
A school gym suit, a high school basketball jersey and a school uniform, photographed as museum objects

Academic Dress and the Hood

A vestigial garment that stopped being clothing and became a code. The hood carries faculty, degree and institution in a system almost nobody inside it can fully read.
Two portraits in academic dress and a doctoral robe held in a museum collection