What is bizarre in that?

And when you are in uniform in school you can't say: 'I got £200 trainers for Christmas and you didn't'? Hm. How odd.

That's exactly what I saw when school uniforms (by that time nothing more than blue coats donned atop normal street clothes) were abolished in Hungary while I was still going to school. Which made me re-think the issue: when the uniforms were first abolished, I was happy, not because of any perceived authoritarianism but because wearing them seemed a hassle. Note that pioneer uniforms (which were to be worn during public celebrations) were another matter entirely.

_{*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.}