Dear Lorraine
At primary school in the fifties I noticed that most of the girls wore their scarves outside there gabardines, with one end over the shoulder or tied at the side of the neck - or in such a way as to keep the gabardine hood in place in stormy weather.
Boys generally did not adopt this style and wore theirs inside. Only if it was very cold or smoggy (or we had been to the dentist) did we wear our scarves outside.
I desperately wanted to wear mine outside my coat but to do so would run the risk of being seen as a bit of girl.
I anxiously waited all winter for the frost or smog to decend to present the opportunity to get wrapped up like the girls.
It wasn`t till the mid 60s when I went to college and big long striped college scarves became popular that I was at last able to wear my scarf outside my coat on a cold winter's day without feeling out of place.
"D"
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