A Japanese contributor reports that his elementary school required all the boys to wear short pants through the year, although there was no uniform. A boy could only wear long pants if he had come down with something, and he had to bring a note from the doctor verifying that he was indeed ill. The contributor grew up in Okinawa which has quite a mild winter. He was in elementary school from about 1977 through circa 1983. The uniform styles, however, are more casual than in previous years.
Few schools require ties to be worn at school.
Most New Zealand secondary schools do insist on uniforms. Most parents think that uniforms are appropriate and a positive contribution to the overall educational effort. Scotland Scottish school uniforms and regulations through the 1950s were much like British styles, except the dress uniform at most private Scottish schools is a tweed jacket and kilt. Curiously while British boys in the 1970s at some schools were arguing to be allowed to wear long pants, some American boys were asking for the right to wear shorts. Schools have had various ways of assessing the proper length or who could wear longs.