These side-by-side photos show just how dramatically school life has evolved. So ’70s school kids got some scuffs, scabs, and the occasional upchuck, but recess was, after all, a time to let loose.

Because these clothes are so tied up with notions of class. And, yeah, I really had a reckoning at the end of it, which is that, you know, I went to prep school ... in the ’70s and ’80s ...