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

Oh no! Brrr! That's miserable Chewbacca!

We weren't allowed trousers under any circumstances
Nor for me. During the Big Freeze in 1963, I was in primary school and one day I was sent in wearing a pair of woollen "trews" that my GM had made for me. It was bitterly cold in the school classrooms but I was immediately told to go and change. Because I had nothing else to change into, I had to take them off and wear my coat all day. Bare legs until home time!

We weren't allowed trousers under any circumstance, but it didn't stop me wishing for different times. It was unheard of to wear trousers to school unless you were a boy. I didn't want to be a boy, but I really envied them wearing trousers.

Georgesgran

It was never an option at my all girl grammar school in the ‘60s. We had a strict uniform policy that had to be adhered to, which meant tunics in Winter and gingham dresses in Summer, always with a blazer and a seasonal hat.
My DDs education spanned 87 - 2001 and trousers for girls were not allowed.

Same here, and yes, same for my daughters too, they weren’t allowed trousers at all.

I never even thought about it - I was in school 70s/80s. My daughter’s yr 6 and not keen to wear them as she finds them uncomfy.

I can't remember wearing or ever wanting to wear trousers once I'd grown out of the tartan trews I had when I was about 4 until hotpants came on the scene right at the end of the 60s, closely followed by velvet loons.

I seem to live in them now (trousers, not hotpants or loons).

The only trousers that were part of the uniform at my school, were thin cotton trousers worn by some of the Asian girls, worn under the regulation skirt.

I would have loved to wear trousers to school, our school was on the coast and in the winter the classrooms were freezing.

I wore skirts but it didn’t bother me, I didn’t turn into a girlie girl until I entered my teens as I found dolls, prams and all that very boring. Glad I didn’t have parents who thought I should have been a boy, as I developed quite a liking for them.

I went to an all girls secondary school in the late 70s. We were allowed to wear either a skirt, or trousers as part of the uniform. I was always a girlie girl, but preferred to wear trousers, especially in the cold weather!

Ours were lined and from the prescribed square shops but we still hitched them up once out of sight. It wasn’t a good look …

It was never an option for me either to wear trousers, but it didn't stop me wishing I could. I never hitched my skirt up as it was a lined one from the (square) uniform shop and would have looked stupid. Some girls had the fashionable type and they would hitch theirs up.

Even now I wear trousers every day.

Hotch potch…

My son’s state secondary school eventually allowed girls to wear trousers and what a mess they looked. The uniform skirts were much smarter than a hitch potch of different trousers, so long as they were black they were allowed. So many different styles whilst the boys all wore pretty much identical ones.

Female staff weren't allowed to wear trousers where I taught. The female head teacher was adamant, despite all our requests.
That is until, the LA cut her budget and the heating was turned down. One day, she turned up in a trouser suit and told us that we were now allowed to wear trousers, because the school was cold.

It was never an option at my all girl grammar school in the ‘60s. We had a strict uniform policy that had to be adhered to, which meant tunics in Winter and gingham dresses in Summer, always with a blazer and a seasonal hat.
My DDs education spanned 87 - 2001 and trousers for girls were not allowed.

TerriBull

It didn't occur to me, although I would have wanted them to be bell bottomed. Fat chance of that my convent school was very hoity toity about school uniform and the implications for the school if pupils were seen out and about without white gloves and straw boaters in the summer so trousers as part of the school uniform would I imagine have them reaching for the smelling salts!

I think it's a very sensible option for girls today, especially when I read about what young women have to put up with, I'm thinking of up skirting

That sounds like my convent school too, I think that the nuns would have spontaneously combusted!

Mid 70s trousers were added to the school uniform. They had to be smart (no jeans) and black and worn with a plain white blouse or polo-neck.

Strangely enough I was told off for wearing smart trousers in a public sector job a decade later

I wanted to.,but in the 80's was not allowed. wasn't allowed to wear them at work (bank) in 1985.

dd wears trousers....because it's ok for girls to wear trousers!

glammanana

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.

Snap ?

I was rather annoyed to hear that, even on the hottest days this year, pupils at my DGD's school had to keep their blazers and ties on at all times. I doubt that the headmaster was wearing a jacket and tie.

It really is rather ridiculous.
The idea of school uniform is not a bad one, imo, because it eliminates the stress of dealing with a child or children in the morning who are insisting on wearing unsuitable clothes for school and also eliminates some of the competition of wearing designer clothes, designer trainers etc.
However, the expense of school uniform has got out of hand and if the law changes that schools cannot insist on only certain suppliers being used then that is a good thing. Lots of outlets sell perfectly good school clothes.

Back in my day (as annodomini would say ) we had to wear gingham dresses in the summer, still with a blazer and also a panama hat.

It was never an option, so it never occurred to me to want to.
As a teen I’m sure my friends and I wouldn’t have wanted to wear trousers in summer - much of break time (when there was any sun) was spent trying to get our legs brown!

I do notice quite a few senior age girls wearing trousers around here, but sadly they are so often very ill-fitting and downright scruffy looking.
One local (state) senior girls’ has a plaid skirt which IMO looks infinitely nicer.

It was a big thing back in the mid 70's when two of our girls high schools merged in a brand new building and we were 'allowed' to choose either skirts OR trousers for the first time ever.?

sorry, that is in Wales, silverlining