{"id":3700,"date":"2018-03-16T14:28:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T06:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malverncollege.org.hk\/uat\/?p=3700"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:31:58","slug":"a-tale-of-two-cities-in-uniforms-the-story-behind-green-school-ties-tartan-skirts-and-blue-cheongsams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malverncollege.org.hk\/uat\/2018\/03\/16\/a-tale-of-two-cities-in-uniforms-the-story-behind-green-school-ties-tartan-skirts-and-blue-cheongsams\/","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two cities in uniforms: the story behind green school ties, tartan skirts and blue cheongsams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published by SCMP on March 2018.<\/p>\n<p>School uniforms are often caches of bittersweet memories for most former pupils in Hong Kong, where strict dress codes are still largely adopted. That said, uniforms can often reveal a school\u2019s heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Malvern College Hong Kong, set to open this September in Providence Bay, next to the Science Park, has a uniform that dates back to its British roots in 1865, when the mother school was founded in Malvern, an English town in Worcestershire. The school has now established outlets in Qingdao, Chengdu, Egypt and this year, Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/education\/article\/2136302\/tale-two-cities-uniforms-story-behind-green-school-ties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published by SCMP on March 2018. School uniforms are often caches of bittersweet memories for most former pupils in Hong Kong, where strict dress codes are still largely adopted. That said, uniforms can often reveal a school\u2019s heritage. Malvern College Hong Kong, set to open this September in Providence Bay, next to the Science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malverncollege.org.hk\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malverncollege.org.hk\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malverncollege.org.hk\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malverncollege.org.hk\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malverncollege.org.hk\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/malverncollege.org.hk\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3703,"href":"https:\/\/malverncollege.org.hk\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions\/3703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malverncollege.org.hk\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malverncollege.org.hk\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malverncollege.org.hk\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malverncollege.org.hk\/uat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}