 In the 1960s the uniform was updated with the replacement of the pill box with a forage cap and, with many schools no longer using a blazer in their uniform, from the early 1980s the jacket was gradually dispensed of in favour of dark blue or white shirt variants with no jacket.Many companies adopted a blue shirt with epaulets for officers ranks.A full company section uniform for boys' from the 1980s to mid-1990s could be daunting.