On the Thursday before the third Friday in September, the eve of the Diss hiring fair, the town’s young people chalked marks on each other’s clothes. They claimed a customary right to be mischievous on Chalk-Back Day. Dyer had it from Notes and Queries.
Chalk-Back Day at Diss
the first Thursday on or after 14 September · Diss, Norfolk
No longer kept
to mark and disfigure each other's dresses with white chalk, pleading a prescriptive right to be mischievous on "Chalk-Back Day."
From Dyer's British Popular Customs, p. 370. Read the original
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