Bluecoat

The main element of the bluecoat is a long (dark blue or black) coat, belted at the waist, with white neck decoration.

Underneath a white shirt and grey breeches are worn, with knee-length stockings and smart shoes.

Bluecoat schools based on the model of Christ's Hospital were set up in emulation in other urban centres.

[1] The essayist Leigh Hunt (educated at Christ's Hospital from 1791 to 1799) described the bluecoat uniform: "Our dress was of the coarsest and quaintest kind, but was respected out of doors, and is so.

It consisted of a blue drugget gown, or body, with ample coats to it; a yellow vest underneath in winter-time; small-clothes of Russia duck; worsted yellow stockings; a leathern girdle; and a little black worsted cap, usually carried in the hand.