It also showed in wearing grey boys school socks in preference to mens (grr) over any kind of trousers.
This would continue until I started to move over to more female based mode even if some parts of my outward presentation were more boyish. In some respects at least I could be seen as being more tomboyish rather like "George" in the Famous Five stories who really was a girl.
Of course what I'd of rather of had was everything in school and for my childhood like the child on the left here:
Even if I was dressed more like the one on the right.
Across the 80's this changed as I found more around the topic of gender, cross-dressing and transsexualism from the media and also from reading around it in libraries to the point I wrote of as you did back then to Post Office addresses for fact sheets with contact details.
Postcript: What started out as LB moved to LG where it remains today