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Dormitory Inspection

In my Boarding School the dorms were rather austere compared to the photos of modern Schools. The photo below to is bare and the one underneath is too cluttered. We had draws under the beds and wardrobes but we were forbidden to put up posters or damage the paintwork!

Our inspections were on a Sunday and it was to ensure all our clothes were folded and put away nicely, but mainly for staff and pregects to have a good look around, and poke about for contraband and any other innocent item, they didn't like, with mock rage. Didn't every girl have a vibrator?

Of course any illicit or innocent, meant an appointment with the Headmistress, charged with having food in your dorm (wine gums) or medicine (aspirin), which was very serious.

When ever you had your meeting with the Headmistress, day or evening, you were always a nuisance and causing a disruption to her work schedule and consequently deserved a hard caning!

Above; The dorm was not much better than this, with a few cupboads added, like the photo below. I think we had lino rather than carpet and enormous radiators.

Above; a bit better but we were not permitted pictures or posters on the wall.

The dorm was beyond our wildest dreams! I always dreamed of watching TV under the covers but i could never have known what the internet would bring. My other fun came from lisyening to Radio Caroline under the sheets, with ear plug type ear phones, that kept dropping out. Of course it was sometimes difficult to turn the noise off if a Prefect or Teacher entered, after lights out necessitating a slippering on my bottom, with just the nightie for protection, of god forbid a visit to the Headmistress in my nightie, slippers and dressing gown. The Headmistress might still be up at some unholy hour, and she might be missing a TV show. There was no red button to reply, so you really got the full force of her thrashing. After putting your dressing gown on, you were escorted back to bed, with your arm gripped by the Prefect, that stopped you rubbing your stinging bottom, till you were released and alone in bed. Your tadio was confiscated and perhaps returned at the end of term. Somehow the batteries were flat, as if a Prefect had been enjoying the same not so guilty pleasures!

Knickers were not permitted to be worn for a caning or spanking in nightwear!

If a dorm inspection was carried out with intention of perhaps finding something illicit but this was not found, then there might be a search of the girls in the dorm, which in very rare circumstances involve a search of the girls underwear. If found, whatever it was, might involve a very severe caning and expulsion from School.

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The moment of truth

You have come in to the teachers office and he has given you you a verbal 'dressing down' and sold you he is to spank your bottom. You are told to lay over his lap. He now lifts your skirt, and you feel the cool air round the top of your legs, as the skirt is laid over your back. You feel very vulnerable and exposed, even with your panties in place, as the first hard smack hits one cheek and then the other. The stinging starts immediately, with perhaps 30 to 50 more to go. You shout ouch or owe to show that the stinging is having an effect on you, in the hope of getting sympathy and a lesser spanking. However it has no affect on the relentless 'one two', 'one two' pace of your spanking, with each smack seeing to get harder and harder. You suddenly realise that he is spanking hard and harder to make you cry, but you can't. The smacking continues and your bottom stings, with the relentless blows and your bottom is red hot. A sudden in crease in the rapidity and hardness of the smacks signals the end of your punishment. You stand and adjust your knickers and skirt, and for a moment you are unsure if you may rub your stinging bottom. Its then that the tears appear and you sobbing and you are told to get out. Your rubbing of your bottom starts, but its to raw to give much relief. If you still have lessons to attend, the thought of sitting down brings you even more discomfort especially if the teacher, knowing of your spanking, won't let you get away with quietly whimpering in the furthest desk from her.

There wasn't any relief from a severely spanked bottom, as none was permitted.

Luckily there wasn't any corner time either unless you made such a fuss afterwards, that you were put in the corner to suffer in silence, or face more of the same, if you weren't quiet.

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More on early School Days

Above; All very respectable and proper, but for how long?

I know that girls at school were spanked and caned on the bottom in 1960s. I have read accounts of girls being spanked and caned on a bare bottom by a female teacher, but in have no evidence other than what people say. I know from my sister that her math class at Junior school was told that they had to learn their 12x times table of by heart as the teacher would test those at random and those who got asked and were consistently getting the answers wrong, would be brought out front at the end of the test and spanked on their knickers. My sister made sure it wasn't her! That was quite typical and my sister credits the threat to her bottom as making her good as maths. This normality continued in to senior school!

Below; I used to think stockings and suspenders were fantasy, but I realise tights were not generally available in 1960s, so stockings quite normal, and therefore worn for a girl being caned on her knickers, and pulled up over the suspender, unlike modern recreations. Incidentally my elder sister was always gpod and studious but my middle sister was a bit rebellious in her mid teens, and I am certain she was spanked and caned in her bottle green gym knickers that she wore at school in late 1960s & early 1970s. She never let on to me as she probably thought I would snitch on her like she did on me when we both went to the same Junior school, and I was spanked in front of everyone in the school hall!

Below; in 1960s & 1970s the Headteachers of most senior schools still wore the mortar board hat and gown, to show their authority. It always seemed synonymous with being caned. You might be sent down to the Headmistress to be punished for insubordination and be told by the school secretary to stand there, against the wall, to await her return. Eventually you would hear a rush of cloth, as the Headmistress swept in. "Well what have we got here" she might exclaim? The school secretary would speak first, and say, "Headmistress, Fiona has just been sent down by Mrs Williams, for insubordination". After which the Headmistress would say in your direction, "In here girl, you know that I have to cane you, so bend over.....etc"

Below; Some teachers delivered a severe caning to a girl with her skirt on, in the knowledge that the severity of the stroke would really sting and cause the desired effect on her bottom.

Above; in Spring and summer, girls wore knickers and socks. I guess white knickers made their appearance in the 1960s but i know for a fact that gym knickers for use in class lasted till 1974 for certain but not for me.

The male teacher moving the girls skirt over her back looks to be treating the situation as routine, whereby the girl is brought in to his office told off for her indiscretion, then bent over the chair, prepared and then gived the most horrendously painful caning and then sent off to wherever she needs to be, to suffer in public as a warning to hereself, with her embarrassment and to other girls who don't want the same!

Typically in my school we bent over a chair as the desk was probably covered in documents and not suitably placed to get a good run up and almighty stroke of the cane, as a chair placed in the open.

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Did this happen at school?

We did not have knicker inspection at BS, nor did my sisters at their school. However my older sister had a situation in her school where a watch was stolen and in an effort to ensure it was not taken out of the school rooms, the Headmistress announced a bag search, which logically meant a theif would hide the watch somewear else other than bag or blazer pockets. Therefore by limiting access to other places the girls were searched separately and last, and this search included her Headmistress search the girls and requesting they pull up their skirts, while the Headmistress peeped in to the front and back of their knicker, to check for the stolen item. Obviously all rather embarrassing for each girl whatever their stage of development.

So I understand the stolen watch was found and that the girl who took it was caned on her bottom and expelled, from what was a very good school.

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Years ago a guy asked why do men find it fascinating and rather endearing when girls stand with our legs tight together, which is quite naturally done, whereas you guys can't stand like that, as you have too much is in the way?

Even when not told to stand up straight, we still do that tight legged pose, so is there a psychological reason?

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Spanked then caned?

One thing that is suggested on the web is that girls were spanked on their knickers and then spanked without their knickers and then thrashed with the cane. But I think this is pure fantasy as at my school, if a prefect or teacher thought you were deserving of a spanking or slippering, thats what you got, start to finish with minimal time and effort. If you were deserving of the cane then you were sent to the Headmistress. She had other work to do, so you were an unnecessary distraction and she was in no mood to play games. The Headmistress was not going to prolong the process and waste time on a spanking, slippering, the strap and then the cane. You had been naughty enough to be sent to her, so it was her job to inflict as much pain and discomfort as possible to your bottom, (with your knickers in place so you might retain your dignity). Therefore your punishment was swift and severe; bend over the chair and get 6 really severe strokes of the cane, that had you gasping for air, and then get out. No prolonged caning or spanking and sitting and caning again, as it was too time consuming. So just a really severe beating that you would never forget and never ever want repeated, whether or not you were actually deserving of it. No corner time, just get out of my way and whimper somewhere else, even in class!

But of course whimpering in class was not permitted and despite the pain in your knickers, you were expected to sit (ouch) down and pay full attention to the lesson, and answer questions or else!

There was no spanking, followed by a caning and none on a bare bottom !

Bend over, skirt out of the way, and knickers thrashed really hard, sufficiently hard for you to never want it again, even if your caning was deserved or undeserved. You certainly made sure you were never ever caned again.

The anticipation was often too much to bare.

In my school, they never gave you a spanked bottom, then the strap, and then the cane, it was a severve caning start to finish.

Below; spanking, slippering or caning but never a combination.

Below, this girl will not have to endure a prolonged spanking, slippering and caning in her white knickers. Instead she would be bent over and endure a very intense caning by the Headteacher, that was over in minutes, but the effect lasted for hours, from the unbearable pain and stinging, days for the welts to subside and weeks for all trace of the experience to disappear. completely.

Some girls tried to wear larger knickers to hide, the welts outside the knicker area but this wasn't always possible, so might face a barrage of questions from another girl in the sports changing room. Even worse I guess if it was questions during an away game at another school. "Gosh it looks like you have had a right proper thrashing recently, Yes?" More blushes!

That cane will soon be at work giving the girl an experience she will never forget, for the rest of her life.

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Then and now

So how is it that we have gone from a gym slip and stout knickers like this girl below, to very sexualized fashion items for school girls (lower down the page) in place of uniform in the true sense of the word, in a few decades? Uniform was to unify the pupils and not differentiate rich from poor, not that anyone cares any moor!

From gym slip above to the three girls below, which I didn't believe were considered properly dressed in the uniform they wore to school. I wondered if it was real, well I used to wonder until I saw such girls with my own eyes. The ability for girls to wear long black socks above the knee and very tight lycra skirts, and thongs i guess, seem to extenuate a certain sexual attraction these girls want to display, which in 1970s was strictly forbidden in favour of learning and educational achievement. The girl bending and sticking her bottom out may be trying to get in the photo but with the shortest skirt of all she may be subconsciously sending out the wrong message for her school! The Headmistress of old would be horrified, truely horrified!

And this photo below gives out the wrong signal too. Firstly, one girl has a faux leather skirt, and when has that ever been permitted? And one girl is wearing a pinafore dress, when in most schools it is either or. The more I look at this photo I realise how strict we were treated compared to now.

If the Headmistress looked at these girls now with 1970s rules in place, she would likely cane all three, as from left to right, the first girl has a skirt too high above the knee, next apart fom a pinafore dress the girl has no socks, the last girl has her lycra mini skirt on. All are drinking, but perhaps there is a bar at school now? A pint for Sir and a glass of white wine for the girls?

Which brings me to the subject of school knickers, as it is a dead cert none of these girls are wearing any, but only in the sense that they are not wearing any SCHOOL Knickers.

Seeing as girls have gone to such efforts with their makeup and clothes, that their school permits, it is fair to say they are not wearing baggy gym knickers under their tight skirts, which means black thongs are now the 'new' white cotton knickers of old.

Spanking these girls bottoms with little provocation for some minor indiscretion in their mini briefs, seems so out of this world, in school of today.

So what does the future hold? I guess the eventual scraping of uniform, and replacing it with anything and also scraping of girl's schools and replacing it with co ed schools with pupils wearing what they want and perhaps boys wearing girls clothes and vice versa if that makes them happy. Personally I am past caring, as long as pupils are not hindered from learning either by rules or other pupils.

Also it could be that pupils, less hindered by petty school rules over uniform could do better, if they didn't have to worry about what to wear, assuming it wasn't overly provocative.

That leave disruptive behaviour to be dealt with, for which society wants a solution, as long as we don't use the solution of old, namely a severe caning on a girls knickers!

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How school was in 1970s

Perhaps the most hated of activities, for me at least, was netball and hockey on a cold and blustery day. We often played in gym knickers and vest top, whereas the teacher preferred a track suit! All very fair. The girl second on left, above, appears to have long legged gym knickers, probably hand me downs from big sisters, and black plimsols probably from her brother. The girl third from the right has slighly faded gym knickers, which was another sign her knickers have been handed down from big sisters, and faded through being washed.

The other photo from yesteryear, shows how gym knickers really looked; big and baggy with an elasticated waist, and often the legs too. They were very creased, not tight across the bottom or stomach and were ok for netball and hockey or running as they kept you warm. In games if you did not keep up the PE teacher might stop you and give you a few hefty smacks on your bottom for not exerting your self and with a warning of a proper spanking if you didnt pull 'your weight'. "Sorry Miss" might help but it didn't stop her from keeping her eye on you, and keeping a mental note of who was a slacker. You probably only had one or two warnings after which it was "Your not putting any effort in to this game, see me afterwards." The afterwards the PE teacher would come and find you in the changing room, which would echo to the sound of your knicker coved bottom being spanked or slippered. Everyone looked and remembered not to be that girl, whose face was nearly as red as her bottom!

But imagine wearing these all through the school day, before white cotton knickers replaced them. They would have been very heavy under a skirt all day.

So I understand from my older sisters, being caned in such gym knickers was different in that the materiel used was thicker, and typically involved a thicker cane and harsher strokes. They were good at holding sanitary pads in place as appropriate, before the invention of more convenient products, which were less bulky, itchy and not so noticeable.

Above, perhaps as bad as running about outside in the cold was gymnastics in the hall also wearing gym knickers, which still had a high waist. These girls have plimsols but often we had bare feet. Climbing ropes in knickers and bare feet was the worst for friction burns in places I didn't want

Incidentally I could not imagine hanging upside down like two of the girls!

School uniform from 1960s and 1970s. These girls all look so good, though two of them retain gymslips that had disappears by my time. I would assume there wad not a naughty girl amongst them. Though by the law of averages probaby more than half had received a spanked bottom at some stage.

None of them appear to have a skirt shorter than school rules which 4 inches above the knee. Any higher and you were in trouble. It was possible that the waist band of the skirt could be rolled over to make the skirt shorter and un rolled if someone noticed, but permanently sown shorter could result in being accused of deliberately breaking the rules, and we knew what the Headmistress would do. Mothers with two girls at BS would need to check any hand me down skirts and girls growth to ensure the skirts were correct.

The girls in the above photos all look well behaved and i can't imagine any of them being spanked over mothers knee, or know the terror of waiting outside the Headmistress's office, knowing that they are to receive a caned bottom in their bulky gym knickers!

In the photo of the two girls, it looks like elder sister is welcoming her liitle sister to Boarding School, but actually this was so uncool. Little sisters were to be ignored, as least in public, as they were soooo immature. Big sister would not be of any help to the little brat, in front of her friends, so if little sis got thrahed by the Headmistress, for something that could have been avoided, all hell would break out once mother found out in the holidays. According to mother, when she saw the state of little sisters bottom, she might take out her rage on big sister for being beastly to little sister. Mother might give big sister a severe spanked bottom for being nasty, and acting mature, when she wasn't.

There would be much crying and squabbles between sisters afterwards. Both were now equally nursing sore bottoms! However, back at school, big sister was even less likely to help her little sister and do only the minimum!

Oh dear, mother might have another lesson for her in the holidays!

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Cross country running

One memory of cross country running, is always running in gym knickers with or without gym skirts as no one had ever thought of track suits for girls! Often the PE teacher might dress in a similar outfit and wack us on the bottom if we did not run fast enough, but luckily I was better at running than doing contact sports.

Sometimes the cross country run might be a paper chase ending up at a familiar land mark. Once my friend heard a teacher mention to another where it was, so she ran directly there and pretended to be first, however this was soon discovered and as a consequence she was caned in her PE kit! Just like this but we did not have white stripes on our knickers - just red stripes on our bottoms!

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Partial Nudity

At Boarding School we did see other girls nude, but only momentarily in the dorm, but we never flaunted it or even paraded around in our underwear, nudity at BS was only a transition between dressing for school or undressing for bed, and the same for baths. However, we were not permitted like this girl to carry out chores like ironing in skimpy knickers like these, well certainly not these as they were banned!. But not even permitted in ordinary school knickers either!

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Bar stool spanking

This photo shows a girl about to be caned on her knickers, which is fair enough but they did not use such things as bar stool at my school, as a chair such as in the background would suffice, and anyway having a stool for occasional use would have got in the way.

The most accurate part of the photo is the teacher, who tended to wear dark skirts and jackets like that shown plus dark tights, or stockings if any evidence of clips ever showed up.

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My sister's spanking

Sorry this is included as the photo so reminds me of my long haired older (middle) sister, who got a severe smacked bottom from Dad, that I witnessed, when I was age about 11.

We had been to the January sales and my sister bought a book about pets or kittens, and when we got home I wanted to have a look at the book, and my sister said no and I said just 5 minutes, and sister said no its mine, and you might rip it. Oh please let me. No its my book. Oh please just for a minute. No its mine etc etc and on and on....You get the idea of siblings squabbling.

My Dad was in the next room, and was very mild mannered, but for some reason was annoyed at my sister not sharing, and marched in and pushed my sister over the couch and his knee and spanked her bottom. I stood watching and I remember my sister had a light green or white top and a dark green mini skirt, which my dad pulled up to reveal some nearly see through white panties, which were spanked repeatedly by my Dad. I had never seen such thin knickers, but my mother always tried to shield me from such things, so no wonder. I guess that's why she gathered the clean washing up so fast, to save me looking at my older sister's panties or stockings and suspenders.

Anyway there must have been a pause in her spanking and she escaped upstairs. However, Dad was not satified with her punishment and followed her upstairs. After a lot of raised voices and clumping about up in the bedroom, Dad eventually came down and announced to Mum, that he had given my sister a dammed good hiding. I didn't see my sister (and her sore bottom for the rest of the day), and she wouldn't speak to me for a few days.

Incidentally, I wasn't that upset she wouldn't allow me to see her book, so perhaps Dad over reacted as they often did in late 1960s.

Strange memories!

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Miss, here is your cane to thrash my bottom

Did pupils really get to handle the cane or retrieve it from the school office, to give to the Headmistress, before she made you bend over a chair, and she severely caned you on your cotton knickers? It didn't happen at my Boarding School and I only got a fleeting glimpse of it, and once Miss had finished with it, I had more important things to think about in my Knickers. I guess if this ritual did occur, her expression would be more troubled!

Also there are claims that senior prefects or the Head Girl, were permitted to cane other girls, but this was not permitted at my school, as it would have been open to abuse, and anyway that was the preserve of the Headmistress who loved caning girls, and boys too if she ever had the opportunity, and inspecting the damage briefly in girls knickers. Irrespective of the Headmistress, caning of pupils by other pupils was open to bullying, so forbidden.

If by chance a girl had been thrashed with the cane and made to sit on a hard chair afterwards with her knickers pulled down, the last thing she would be wanting to hold would be the cane!

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Why wasn't corner time used?

Surprisingly for a Headmistress that like to cane girls, that were sent to her for a severe hard caning, corner time was not used at all. Very occasionally a caned girl might be made to sit her caned bottom on a hard chair but no corner time. I guess the reason why not was that after a severe thrashing, the Headmistress wanted them out of her way, so that she could continue with her paperwork. Also as girls were caned in private, away from anyone else who might see her in the corner. Also if someone was caned and sent back to class, it was far more embarrassing.

I guess without anyone to see you with a spanked bottom standing in the corner, then corner times as pointless!

Even making the girl kneel on solit peas eas pointless too, and I imagine the Headmistress was not going to leave you in her room for perhaps 30 minutes, with stinging bottom , when it was far more effective to go back to class and apologise for your absence for being caned, for all the class to hear, and perhaps the teacher to prolong your punishment by asking "what for" and how many strokes, as if she cared! Also if the girl kneeling on the pasta, had a 'fire burning in her knickers' from Headmistress's caning it would be far better as a punishment to maker her sit on the pasta!

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To be wearing white cotton knickers when you are to be caned, needed drastic action, such as pulling them up and trying to spread them out, to hopefully cover the girls cheeks from the cane lashing either side of the knickers elastic!

A typical size of white cotton knickers as described in another post!

And these

And these knickers but never caned in a barn! Not unless there was something dodgy going on, and this naughty girl wants to escape a visit to the Headmistress and the kindly male teacher offers to assist with a hand spanking and not for her to mention his 'private solution' to anyone!

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The Teachers

Most of the teachers at my Boarding School I though were terribly old, being aged from being late twenties, up to their mid fifties. Positively ancient! The youngest ones were still very much a Miss, with a boyfriend with whom they would try out married life on a regular basis. They looked like this, but without the smile while dealing with us, or the hair brush as a cane or slipper was used. Often the not so experienced teachers were strict I guess to proove themselves, whereas the older teachers knew when to let a situation go and when to be strict with the cane.

Then there were the older teachers, who will still called Miss, but who were definitely 'Madam'. These teachers were kinder and calmer than the younger ones. Younger teachers might get in to a temper, if they thought their authority was being challenged, even if it wasn't and I guess might cane the entire class, if she didn't get what she wanted.

Or like her above, getting more tolerant

Or like her above, still in the stage where, a thrashing with 6 severe strokes of the cane was required for every indiscretion.

Or her in a long skirt and stoney waxworks face, to gain Headmistress's approval, from the fear she instilled in us.

If you were 'bellowed' at by her then take note, as your next indiscretion might be taken as insubordination, resulting in you being sent to the Headmistress, not that teacher couldn't cane you, as her methods were equally brutal, but being sent out of class to the Headmistress was full of shame and trepidation plus of course the Headmistress got to know your name as a possible trouble maker. When the Headteacher asked you "why are you here" and you said "insubordination Miss" you knew what was coming next! Your bottom might then bare the marks from your visit with red or purple welts on your bottom that were noticeable, either side of your knickers for the next two weeks. This visit to the Head was so much worse than if teacher had caned us.

Incidentally, I have heard that in ordinary schools, a pupil who had been severely caned might call in sick the day after, but we had no such luxury. For us we had to be in the next lesson the next day irrespective of our inability to sit down! After all matron could visit us in our beds and report on our condition, and that of our backside if required.

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The trouble with gym knickers

When I was at school, the uniform was a shirt and tie, a maroon skirt and maroon & bra, blazer and white cotton knickers and long white socks for class and maroon gym knickers for games. The games slip was also maroon. For some reason there was no summer dress. Due to this I have assumed that white cotton knickers were worn at every school only for class. However, I had a friend from a state school, who I met and went home with in 1974, and she still had to wear navy blue gym knickers throughout the school day. It was only after she put a plain pair white cotton knickers on under her jeans that I realised, some schools were different.

I think as a compromise gym knickers became far less baggy and more like gym knickers for school lessons and sports use?

However l don't remember if she had a summer dress either, so who knows if the gym slip was worn all year or just for PE. You would hope some allowance would have been made for hot summer days. Gym knickers were warm for PE, as it never seemed to be anything else than cold and windy. On the rare occasion it was a hot summer day, gym knickers did seem to stick or just seem too thick a materiel for the temperature. Of course wearing gym knickers was better if you were spanked or caned in them compared to white cotton knickers, but for us that would mean being disciplined only in Games, and not in class like my friend. Incidentally being caned in gym knickers usually meant the teacher using a thicker cane. But come to think of it the Headmistress used her thicker cane on our white cotton knickers to ensure maximum discomfort.

I thought the girl above was being caned for wearing her navy blue gym knickers in class, but it really did depend on the school.

These two girls being caned have navy blue gym knickers and either class room kit on the left and PE kit om the right, and very high leg opening in the gym knickers, which I don't recall. So did gym knickers of old change to a more modern netball high leg type panties after I left?

Above; this girl getting the benefit of a caned bottom has gym knickers with a navy skirt and bottle green blazer bit in my experience it would have been more usual to have bottle green skirt and bottle green gym knickers to match the blazer for the classroom. There were other schools netball teams that had contrasting skirt and gym knickers but ultimately it was their Headmistress's choice.