When I was in kindergarten, I got to wear whatever I wanted even though it was at a Catholic school. I remember talking on the playground, how badly we wanted to be in those uniforms so we would look like the graders! As luck would have it, we got to wear them the very next year when we entered first grade. It was awesome to look just like everyone else. For about two weeks. Then it was tedious and dull. I can sympathize with the early veil wearers because it was a little disorienting once finally sunk in that I couldn't go back to wearing whatever I wanted at school.
What had been so coveted in June was repressive by August. I hated not being able to swing from the monkey bars on the playground because it was "indecent." If I hadn't been forced to wear the stupid uniform, I could wear pants and hang upside down like I did in kindergarten!