Going to a private school as a kid, luckily only for part of elementary school, we wore uniforms and I’m not talking free reign as long as your shoes, shirts, and pants were one of these colors, I’m talking full on school issued inconvenient uniforms. On one hand, you never had to decide what to wear. They did it to equalize everyone, so you wouldn’t be judged on clothes. But really, everyone found other ways to express themselves and define themselves by money, class, or whatever else from other people who weren’t in their class. For example, a few girls started wearing this specific necklace that basically told everyone they were rich and you were poor. Others that were a little bit more this or that started wearing mens socks. The goth kids would wear black socks with a certain pattern, some would wear bright yellow socks to signal other things, sponge bob socks, etc. With the boys, you couldn’t necessarily see the socks unless they made it apparent they wanted you to see them. But with the girls, it was all knee length skirts at that time, so we had more options. Frankly, I found that if people want to define and divide themselves, they will no matter how you try to control it. The teachers saw the changes, and frankly they treated some of the specified groups differently too, because even though they were technically what would be considered poor in our school and their children would be too, they were a bit of elitists, which only encouraged the further divisions. I mean they would start wearing mens socks of some of the more elite groups sometimes to try to “relate” to all of us. Um, no, only further showing their preference for certain groups. They would never change it up, it was always one kind and one kind of jewelry, which they couldn’t afford the real thing. So they would wear imitations, and the kids who wore those could always tell. But they wanted the benefits of elitist teachers, so they said nothing or only positive things. None of us were particularly stupid on that count. Still, I hate school uniforms, because it really is too much control.