Quote Originally Posted by Tuckervill View Post
Same thing with my jr. high and the showers. Our gym suits were blue, too, but made of stretchy fabric, with blue bottoms and a horizontally striped top. Zipped up the front. Hated them...
Augh! All those memories I had repressed came flooding back with this gym suit description. Ours were powder blue colored. Ick. As if the humiliation of wearing them in the school gym weren't bad enough, when the weather was nice we had to trudge to a nearby park for class (soft ball or soccer) and endure public humiliation. The guys just wore dark blue or black shorts with a blue t-shirt. By junior year a certain someone ( ahem, who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty ) rallied a few like minded females and showed up to class wearing the same thing the boys did. Created quite the stir (this was a parochial school...how dare we challenge authority!) but eventually led to the switch to "normal" gym shorts and t-shirts.

In elementary school we didn't have formal PE but the girls and boys had separate playgrounds. Later on PE classes were segregated.