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Did you ever wish you could wear trousers to school instead of skirts?

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Germanshepherdsmum Fri 19-Nov-21 10:30:02

We did the same glammanana once out of sight of school!?

Germanshepherdsmum Fri 19-Nov-21 10:28:50

It never occurred to me in the 50s and 60s. My grammar school was single sex with very strict uniform rules anyway. If anything I wished I could wear boots in the winter (not allowed unless x inches of snow).

glammanana Fri 19-Nov-21 10:27:26

I never wore trousers to school in fact the shorter my skirt the better much to my mothers horror we used to turn the waistband over at the top during the winter we had really cold knee's & thighs but put up with it all in the cause of the fashion of the 60's.

BlueBelle Fri 19-Nov-21 10:15:34

Never thought about it because no one did
Trousers for girls was never part of the school uniform in 50 s 60 s etc so it never entered my head
In fact I don’t think I wore trousers much in my teens either mini skirts and mini dresses I do remember having some pedal pushers when I was about 16 otherwise trousers were ‘in’ that much

Scones Fri 19-Nov-21 09:24:51

We were allowed to wear trousers at our comprehensive school on a big council estate. Frankly I think they'd have been ok for us to attend in our pyjamas so long as we actually turned up.

Trousers were allowed but we couldn't do woodwork and the boys couldn't do home economics. Ridiculous, unfounded rules based entirely on gender then and now.

eazybee Fri 19-Nov-21 09:21:20

Never thought about wearing trousers for school; too busy campaigning to be allowed to wear black tights for warmth as we cycled to school. Permission was not granted.

ElaineI Fri 19-Nov-21 09:19:18

No never. In the winter girls could wear thick tights under their skirts and in my primary school boys had to wear shorts till P7. In the winter it usually snowed a lot. Climate has changed a lot nowadays though. My own daughters wore skirts at primary as it was the norm though boys could wear long trousers. I can't remember what they wore to high school. It wasn't such a big thing in those days. DD2 was a bit unconventional and had a few friends who were bisexual, and Goths as well but she says lots of friends would say that to get attention but weren't actually bisexual. Self harming was also an issue at that time and teenagers appeared to copy each other.

GagaJo Fri 19-Nov-21 09:17:05

I didn't care what I wore. I just hated going full-stop and loathed anything that smacked of uniform as a result.

Septimia Fri 19-Nov-21 09:13:25

Growing up in the 50s and 60s I never even contemplated wearing trousers for school. Women and girls tended to wear them only for outdoorsy activities so, even though I was a tomboy, I mostly wore dresses and skirts except when on camping holidays with family or Guides.

Now I hardly ever wear a skirt or dress, it's generally trousers for me!

Grandmabatty Fri 19-Nov-21 08:43:31

I was a tomboy when I was about ten or eleven. In fact, when I started secondary school the dinner ladies thought I was a boy. I never wanted to actually be a boy though. I feel very sorry for anyone who is confused or tortured by their body

OnwardandUpward Fri 19-Nov-21 08:39:00

I did.
Just read this story about Keira Bell again and it's struck me how it was her Mum who asked her if she wanted to be a boy because she wanted to wear trousers to school, not skirts. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10060533/Detransitioned-activist-takes-war-puberty-blockers-Supreme-Court.html

Honestly, it makes me sad for all she's gone through. As someone who constantly wished they could wear trousers to school, I feel for her (because if the seed was planted in my mind at a tender age perhaps I'd have thought it was the answer, too?) I often used to say I wanted to be a boy because I thought boys and men had it easier, but I've never wanted to actually change gender and in any case it would have been nonsensed by my Mother. Kids today have a much harder job knowing who they are because we never had those choices to get sidetracked by.