School seem to be more obsessed about uniform than education, my own school uniform used to cost £190, and teenagers grow...a lot! My family were not well off at all, and i remember many an occasion i was sent to the headmaster over uniform issues. We had 2 PE kits, one white, one red, if you wore the wrong one, you were given a black mark, three blacks marks and suspended? Whats that all about?
You also had to wear a knee length pleated skirt, which are actually very hard to find for a teenagers , unless less you want to fork out £50, so i wore a straight skirt and everyday i was down to the headmasters office, luckily he was lovely and wasn't into all this uniform rubbish and used to just ask me how celtic were doing i the league.
As for hair though they weren't to fussed, as long as you had your blazer on! That blazer i happily burnt when i left
There were many rules just for the blazer, don't take it off was the main one, if your wearing a coat outside, your blazer must be on underneath,, if you havnt got a coat big enough for a huge sholderpadded blazer underneath than you dont get to wear a coat???
I know more schools athat were even more strict and expensive, Plonking used to go to a school and everyone had to wear a suit, even at sixth form, very expensive!
EDIT- i remember somethign else really stupid, girls had to wear skirts april to mid november, and trousers november to march, its bloody cold in september, esp. in a stupid skirt!!