Uniform Parades

The School’s first uniform was the height of 1890s fashion: a blue serge skirt, with striped blue and white print blouse, or for summer, an entire dress of blue and white striped prints. The current uniform contains echoes of this design in the choice of the colour blue and the stripes in the Primary School shirts.

For our 75th anniversary, parents and girls organised our original ‘Uniform Parade’. Old photographs were pored over and replica dresses were made. Almost 150 girls paraded at a dinner held by the Fathers’ Association.

TV channels, Woman’s Day and the Herald and Telegraph newspapers were there for the full-dress rehearsal and later that month several girls went to Channel 7 studios where they appeared on the popular Maggie Tabberer Show.

Since the success of this inaugural parade, uniform parades have become a much-loved feature of significant anniversaries where the girls enjoy looking at the fashions of earlier years.