Out will go exclamations like "mercy me!" to be replaced by the anodyne "oh no!" "Housemistress" will be replaced by "teacher" and "school tunic" will become "uniform" and "awful swotter" will be rendered down into "bookworm".
For instance, "school tunic" becomes "uniform", "mother and father" becomes "mum and dad", "bathing" is replaced by "swimming", and "jersey" by "jumper".
The school also danced it in tunics -- a mistake, for the gentle billowing of the tulle in motion is among Fokine's choreographic effects.
Shabina Begum was 15 when she was excluded from Denbigh High School in Luton after she refused to wear the shalwar kameez (trousers and tunic) which the school allowed Muslim pupils to wear.
Mr. Gaultier had some good ideas, like a sleeveless duffel coat, a sleek leather tunic, complete with white shirt and school tie, or crocodile used as a backless vest.
Having arrived on his first day of school wearing a pair of homemade shoes and a tunic, he earned the unkind nickname of "Daftie".
Dakar, Senegal, 20 November 2009 - As hundreds of elementary school children gathered, preparing for the celebration ceremony at Point E 2 School in Dakar, Senegal, Anna Ndiaye, 11-years-old, walked calmly through the crowd in a flowing yellow tunic with matching pants and a colourful headband wrapped around her short black hair.
Her sister Irma founded a children's school in Moscow; Isadora is shown among the young pupils, all draped in Hellenic tunics (1921).
In Scarsdale, N.Y., where Latin enrollment rose by 14percenttoto 80 this year, the high school sponsors a Roman banquet on the Ides of March during which students come wearing tunics and wreaths in their hair.
