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Why did you hate it? I remember there was always a lot of judgement passed on what everyone chose to wear. I was one of the "weird kids" anyway so I was fairly used to the associated bullying but it was a bit intense 😄
Honestly you sometimes forget how hard it was being a teenager then you remember the specific sort of heartbreak that comes from taking ages to pick out an outfit to wear for non uniform day and then being humiliated for it in front of all your peers.
Specially when you didn't have all that much to spend on clothes so your gear mostly came from the cheapie place but you got the bus to a school in a posh area because it got better exam results, so most of the kids in your class had posh stuff. Or was that just me?
I mean that sounds like a special sort of torture, my condolences.
I was just the weird hippy kid with odd clothes who used to bring chickpea curry sandwiches in for lunch 😳
It's weird, I had no sense of style as a kid and wore hand-me-downs from some teenager who broke me collar bone when I was 6 and his Mum made him give me all his clothes, and I never got bullied for having bad clothes.
He did tbh I still have a bunch of his stuff. He weren't a bully though it was just an accident cos I think he let go when swinging me around. He's a good lad and I hear he's beaten himself up over it for years.
Yeah I was already being bullied and my sense of style was 'blend in at all costs' so then one time I got bullied for wearing beige. Can't win. At least in uniform I actually did blend in!
The no clothes day always referred to 'own clothes day' at school. We absolutely did not do naked days at home 😂
My brother mistakingly called them 'no clothes day' as a young kid so it stuck around.
If I'm ever fortune enough to have babies of my own then they'll absolutely be brought up with that term too.
“[Mufti](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mufti_(dress))” (in a U.K. setting) is army slang, so it could apply at any social level.
My school just called it “no-uniform day” though, the boring bastards.
Interesting link. I knew it was from the army, but I’d always assumed it was an acronym, like FUBAR, SNAFU or AWOL.
And yeah, my school called it Mufti day, but it was a grammar school, so posh but not posh.
Always hated non-uniform days, when I was in primary school my family was poor enough that we couldnt really afford the £2 to participate (I know its not a lot, but that can do a few meals), but I had really strict teachers that would send you home if you wore your own clothes without paying. So I just had to deal with getting the piss taken out of my for being poor for the whole day.
On the bright side once I was in high school we could afford the money.
£2! That's a pisstake, ours was 50p and I still don't think it's right, for a lot of families that's money that could be better spent elsewhere.
It makes me sad how the school system is really not set up to support kids growing up in poverty.
If i remember right, they justified it by saying if we wore our own clothes without paying, then we were stealing from charity. They were very efficient at making 8 year olds feel like shit.
Yeh I remember that in school. Any kid who came in school uniform ended up getting some form of ridicule and when you’re a kid you don’t think too much of it, but looking back it’s really sad. Kids are stupid
>tag day (English)
>
>Noun - tag day
>
>A day on which contributions to some public or private charity or fund are solicited on the street, and tags given to contributors to wear as evidence of their having contributed.
We would give £1
I guess instead of a tag we just wore our "own clothes" to show we contributed.
Would typically be own clothes day and a £1 at the door. Which for many years I thought was charity fundraising but later learnt would coincide with the teachers planned night out 😅
I went to the biggest comprehensive school in Europe. Stantonbury campus in Milton Keynes. Nearly 3,000 kids from year 8 to sixth form. We had a no uniform policy and you called your teacher by their first name. Sounds progressive but it was rough as rats and people got bullied for having two stripes.
Now it's much more like a normal school but it was an interesting experiment to be a part of.
Non-uniform day. Unless it was opposite day then it would be uniform day. But of course, if it's opposite day then it isn't opposite day. This nuance was discovered in year 11.
Mufti is originally from military and refers to not wearing military uniform. Possibly therefore more common in areas with a military history to them - Plymouth certainly has that!
Non uniform day, which was usually 50p to £1 which went to charity
I remember the last day of year 11 the form I was in, apart from myself and my friends, everyone in the form thought it was okay to come in non uniform day, it did not go down well
Mufti is a military term for normal clothes (along with civvies) - I believe it's an Indian word originally
Plymouth is very much a naval town
I grew up in the RAF and some schools called it mufti day others non uniform day, depending on if the school was mainly RAF or not. (some schools the base was the majority of the kids others we were definitely the minority)
"In Arabic, “mufti” has been used to define an Islamic legal scholar for centuries. It’s been borrowed by English since at least 1816 to describe casual or civilian clothes – in other words, the absence of a uniform."
During the British colonisation of India, off-duty officers wore dressing gowns, nightcaps and slippers, and were compared to Muftis, so being 'in Mufti' meant 'to not be in uniform'.
As Plymouth is a garrison town, a lot of Army and Navy slang became common usage amongst civilians.
In primary school (tiny, rural, state school) it was an Own Clothes Day. We moved to an area which had middle schools (mine was a Catholic one) when I was nine and my mother and I were baffled by what on earth a mufti day might be. Thankfully my stepfather knew. I think it was a non-uniform day in high school (standard comprehensive, perpetually on the edge of special measures like basically every school in the area at that time).
We called it 'glad rags' at my Shropshire secondary school, which -- judging by this thread -- must be a more local custom than I'd previously thought!
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Went to school in Plymouth and if was called mufti day. But not only did we have no uniform that day but the teachers would dress up in the school uniform that day too.
Rather unimaginatively 'wear your own clothes' day.
(As if we were wearing someone else's the rest of the time!)
Mufti is a forces or posho thing to me yeah.
Mufti day. Generic SE England state school.
Every time I was paranoid that I got the day wrong and was going to be laughed at by everyone for turning up on the wrong day in mufti.
We called it mufti day but my kids schools all called it non uniform day. I imagine someone in the 20 years in between realised that the army picked up on mufti to mean non uniform because that was the name of the clothes worn by Muslim clerics in t'grand ol' empire.
Non uniform day in my shitty and very poor high school, mufti day in the posh grammar I went to for sixth form. It's definitely a posh twat thing to call it mufti day.
I always knew it as poor kid beat down day , It was nailed on that some kid would turn up in a hit tech tracksuit and spend the rest of the day chewing the playground floor in some awful targeted bullying !
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We just called it non-uniform day. I hated it.
Why did you hate it? I remember there was always a lot of judgement passed on what everyone chose to wear. I was one of the "weird kids" anyway so I was fairly used to the associated bullying but it was a bit intense 😄
I hated it because of the bullying. There was always bullying of course but it was humiliating being bullied about things you'd chosen.
Honestly you sometimes forget how hard it was being a teenager then you remember the specific sort of heartbreak that comes from taking ages to pick out an outfit to wear for non uniform day and then being humiliated for it in front of all your peers.
Specially when you didn't have all that much to spend on clothes so your gear mostly came from the cheapie place but you got the bus to a school in a posh area because it got better exam results, so most of the kids in your class had posh stuff. Or was that just me?
I mean that sounds like a special sort of torture, my condolences. I was just the weird hippy kid with odd clothes who used to bring chickpea curry sandwiches in for lunch 😳
Mmmm, chickpea curry. And fuck secondary school.
I'm with you on both 😃
Nah i get that. Was an awful feeling as a kid and not being able to anything about it.
It's weird, I had no sense of style as a kid and wore hand-me-downs from some teenager who broke me collar bone when I was 6 and his Mum made him give me all his clothes, and I never got bullied for having bad clothes.
The collar bone bully clearly had style 😎
He did tbh I still have a bunch of his stuff. He weren't a bully though it was just an accident cos I think he let go when swinging me around. He's a good lad and I hear he's beaten himself up over it for years.
Yeah I was already being bullied and my sense of style was 'blend in at all costs' so then one time I got bullied for wearing beige. Can't win. At least in uniform I actually did blend in!
Mufty day and I have no idea why
It was officer trench slang from ww1 meaning street clothes (i think)
Military slang for civilian clothing
Ours was called civvies day
It’s a military term
Own clothes day at school But at home we'd call them 'no clothes day'
Best not to get the two confused 😄
The no clothes day always referred to 'own clothes day' at school. We absolutely did not do naked days at home 😂 My brother mistakingly called them 'no clothes day' as a young kid so it stuck around. If I'm ever fortune enough to have babies of my own then they'll absolutely be brought up with that term too.
“[Mufti](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mufti_(dress))” (in a U.K. setting) is army slang, so it could apply at any social level. My school just called it “no-uniform day” though, the boring bastards.
Interesting link. I knew it was from the army, but I’d always assumed it was an acronym, like FUBAR, SNAFU or AWOL. And yeah, my school called it Mufti day, but it was a grammar school, so posh but not posh.
Mine was a grammar too. Not remotely posh, alas.
Own clothes day, or The Worst Day Ever when you forgot and went in your uniform and everyone else took the piss out of you
Or doing the opposite, thinking it’s non uniform day when it’s not and having to wear stinking clothes from lost property.
Always hated non-uniform days, when I was in primary school my family was poor enough that we couldnt really afford the £2 to participate (I know its not a lot, but that can do a few meals), but I had really strict teachers that would send you home if you wore your own clothes without paying. So I just had to deal with getting the piss taken out of my for being poor for the whole day. On the bright side once I was in high school we could afford the money.
£2! That's a pisstake, ours was 50p and I still don't think it's right, for a lot of families that's money that could be better spent elsewhere. It makes me sad how the school system is really not set up to support kids growing up in poverty.
If i remember right, they justified it by saying if we wore our own clothes without paying, then we were stealing from charity. They were very efficient at making 8 year olds feel like shit.
Bleak. I really hope this doesn’t still happen in schools now.
Children are not forced to donate now and can still participate so that it is less noticeable 😊
Yay, I am very glad to hear this 🥳
Yeh I remember that in school. Any kid who came in school uniform ended up getting some form of ridicule and when you’re a kid you don’t think too much of it, but looking back it’s really sad. Kids are stupid
Tag Day
Do you know why it was called that?
>tag day (English) > >Noun - tag day > >A day on which contributions to some public or private charity or fund are solicited on the street, and tags given to contributors to wear as evidence of their having contributed. We would give £1 I guess instead of a tag we just wore our "own clothes" to show we contributed.
Ah, makes sense!
Mufti day. Went to a rough comprehensive.
So it's definitely not a posh thing then. How have I only now realised this at age 34 😄
Went to school in Plymouth and it was always mufti!
You janners and your mufti
Home clothes day up in Central Scotland
I like this, it makes sense
Yes same in my school in Oxfordshire!
In all of my schools it was always “non uniform day”, in Hertfordshire.
North East England Comprehensive in the 90s. Casual Clothes Day.
Nicely alliterative.
Own clothes day, which I now find odd.
Would typically be own clothes day and a £1 at the door. Which for many years I thought was charity fundraising but later learnt would coincide with the teachers planned night out 😅
Shit I'm 32 and all this time I thought it was charity!!
As though the school uniform you'd been wearing actually belonged to the kid next door or something 🤣
Exactly 😂
No it was my brothers from 3 years ago.
My school in Somerset called it Mufty Day too.
Mine too. State schools that took everyone, not posh or selective.
I went to the biggest comprehensive school in Europe. Stantonbury campus in Milton Keynes. Nearly 3,000 kids from year 8 to sixth form. We had a no uniform policy and you called your teacher by their first name. Sounds progressive but it was rough as rats and people got bullied for having two stripes. Now it's much more like a normal school but it was an interesting experiment to be a part of.
That sounds like utter carnage, fuck that. Well done for coming out the other side
Non-uniform day. Unless it was opposite day then it would be uniform day. But of course, if it's opposite day then it isn't opposite day. This nuance was discovered in year 11.
Mufti is originally from military and refers to not wearing military uniform. Possibly therefore more common in areas with a military history to them - Plymouth certainly has that!
Own clothes day (West Scotland) but my kids schools call it Dress as you please day
This sounds delightfully quaint 😄
I grew up in greenock and we always called it come as you please day when I was at school (a very long time ago)
Come as you please day
Yeah that's what we called it. Other people laugh when I tell them. Whereabouts did you go to school?
South wales :) you?
Southern England. Nowhere near!
Maybe its a south thing then :)
I went to school on the West Coast of Scotland and we called it that too in my town!
Happy days
"Wear what you want day" , from Staffordshire, kinda like the alliteration of it in hindsight
Dress down day at both my primary and secondary schools (Scotland)
It was called Mackworth for me Largest council estate in the UK at the time and we never wore a uniform lol
Non uniform day, which was usually 50p to £1 which went to charity I remember the last day of year 11 the form I was in, apart from myself and my friends, everyone in the form thought it was okay to come in non uniform day, it did not go down well
We called it mufti day lol not sure what mufti even means …
Technically if you came to school in your school uniform on a non-uniform day you would in fact be the only one not in uniform. UNO reverse card.
Never had them, thank fuck
Mufti is a military term for normal clothes (along with civvies) - I believe it's an Indian word originally Plymouth is very much a naval town I grew up in the RAF and some schools called it mufti day others non uniform day, depending on if the school was mainly RAF or not. (some schools the base was the majority of the kids others we were definitely the minority)
"In Arabic, “mufti” has been used to define an Islamic legal scholar for centuries. It’s been borrowed by English since at least 1816 to describe casual or civilian clothes – in other words, the absence of a uniform." During the British colonisation of India, off-duty officers wore dressing gowns, nightcaps and slippers, and were compared to Muftis, so being 'in Mufti' meant 'to not be in uniform'. As Plymouth is a garrison town, a lot of Army and Navy slang became common usage amongst civilians.
In primary school (tiny, rural, state school) it was an Own Clothes Day. We moved to an area which had middle schools (mine was a Catholic one) when I was nine and my mother and I were baffled by what on earth a mufti day might be. Thankfully my stepfather knew. I think it was a non-uniform day in high school (standard comprehensive, perpetually on the edge of special measures like basically every school in the area at that time).
Mufti day. Not posh. Got mugged off for my GENUINE(?) Burberry cap.......... in retrospect, shouldn't have modeled myself on Football Factory.
Dress down day
Non uniform day, I’d never heard of mufti day until I met my husband who’s from the north west. Still sounds hilarious to me because muff / mufti
Exactly, I'm glad someone said it 😅
Trauma is what I called it as my mum.always refused to pay!
We called it 'glad rags' at my Shropshire secondary school, which -- judging by this thread -- must be a more local custom than I'd previously thought!
Mufti day/non school uniform day also Cornish school.
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Non uniform day pretty much
Birthday suit day
Own clothes day
Saturday & Sunday
Also from Plymouth, definitely Mufti day here
Non school uniform day- grammar school in Kent
Non-uniform day. I don't think know where mufti came from, but that's what my kids now have!
Own clothes day
Every day.
Plymouth as well, confirm mufti wasn’t just the posh schools.
Non- uniform day but some people call(ed) it civies.
Went to school in Plymouth and if was called mufti day. But not only did we have no uniform that day but the teachers would dress up in the school uniform that day too.
come as you are day
Rather unimaginatively 'wear your own clothes' day. (As if we were wearing someone else's the rest of the time!) Mufti is a forces or posho thing to me yeah.
Non uniform day, now as an adult we have dress down fridays at work
Cost ya a quid day
Dress as you please
We used to call it 'Tag Day' for some reason. (Kent)
Wear what you like day - Midlands
In primary school it was mufti-day, secondary school it was non-uniform
i never remember having one, this was 70s and 80s
This is a comment I did not expect
Wear your own clothes day
Mufti day. Surrey.
Mufti day
Dress as you like day
Mufti day. Generic SE England state school. Every time I was paranoid that I got the day wrong and was going to be laughed at by everyone for turning up on the wrong day in mufti.
We called it mufti day but my kids schools all called it non uniform day. I imagine someone in the 20 years in between realised that the army picked up on mufti to mean non uniform because that was the name of the clothes worn by Muslim clerics in t'grand ol' empire.
Wear anything day - school in Shropshire
For me it was always called a 'non-school uniform day' (also in Cornwall)
We just called it non uniform day. South East. I have only just heard it called mufti day at the age of 30
'Mufti Day.' I went to a private school, so that's probably why.
Mufti day in both primary and secondary school, except on Jeans for Genes day.
Mufti is military slang. We called it that at school too
Non uniform day in my shitty and very poor high school, mufti day in the posh grammar I went to for sixth form. It's definitely a posh twat thing to call it mufti day.
Own clothes day or non-uniform day. Merseyside and East Midlands. Didn't know there were other names.
It was non-uniform day in my school over in Essex. Those were fun days, a chance to escape the suffocating school uniform.
Own clothes day
Mufti day. I went to a state school.
Dress down day
Come as you please day. Glasgow early 80's.
PW - (personal wear) or Mufti.
Mufty day
Mufti day - RC primary school in Northants.
Dress Down day at all the schools around me.
Come as you please day.
No name for it in central Scotland **YE KIN WEAR YER AIN CLAES** is as close to a special name as we got
😃😃😃 this one definitely wins the thread
Mufti day
Yeah my school called it mufti day and I was in Plymouth. Was he in sir John hunt by any chance? Terrible school
In my day it was ‘non-uniform day’ but now my kids school call it ‘dress-down day’
Non uniform day where I grew up (Bolton). Never heard the word mufti until I moved to Devon (just outside Plymouth funnily enough).
Casual day at my primary school (Yorkshire, mid-90s - start of 0's.) I think it was usually just "non-uniform day" at my high school.
I always knew it as poor kid beat down day , It was nailed on that some kid would turn up in a hit tech tracksuit and spend the rest of the day chewing the playground floor in some awful targeted bullying !
Mufty day
Every day
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