Short School Skirts.

It will be the uniform that girls at that school have chosen rather than having imposed. It singles them out as being special, different, which they are, years ago they would have gone to “finishing school”.
Old traditions are not as dead as you think.

Katie59

ExperiencedNotOld

Senior girls attending Marlborough College, the prestigious public school, wear skirts so long you don’t see their ankles and have done so for many years. I’ve long wondered about the culture present that must drive that.

It’s called discipline, it’s what the parents are paying for equivalent boys schools are the same, you are teaching them to conform.
While parents have the choice children will comply except the small minority that rebel which can be very tough.

I’m well aware of discipline. However, much goes on that’s not that disciplined, but that’s a whole different subject. It’s just senior girls chosing to wear the long skirts. Those younger are in knee length …. But maybe that’s not such a different subject - perhaps they get hit on.

ExperiencedNotOld

Senior girls attending Marlborough College, the prestigious public school, wear skirts so long you don’t see their ankles and have done so for many years. I’ve long wondered about the culture present that must drive that.

It’s called discipline, it’s what the parents are paying for equivalent boys schools are the same, you are teaching them to conform.
While parents have the choice children will comply except the small minority that rebel which can be very tough.

Senior girls attending Marlborough College, the prestigious public school, wear skirts so long you don’t see their ankles and have done so for many years. I’ve long wondered about the culture present that must drive that.

Oreo

I don’t think that skirts have ever been as short as they are now, girls have to wear dark shorts under them and dark tights.
Must be a challenge for all those teenage boys at school!

How exactly is it a challenge?

The school I went to had a strict dress code, all obeyed it, you would be sent home if you didn’t, even on the way to school you were expected to be dressed correctly. All my kids were sent to school with proper uniform it was up to the school to enforce it, some couldn’t be bothered.

At work I have also had a strict dress code, as a nurse uniform was and is compulsory, no uniform no job

I drive past our local high school every morning, I see girls hitching their skirts higher and turning the waist band over to shorten the skirt . Pretty sure it's nothing new

First DGD used to wear trousers to school - they were optional and she preferred them to skirts. Younger DGD was of the opposite opinion and I was most concerned when I saw her cycling off to school with a skirt that barely reached the saddle of her bike. Surprisingly, she survived and now, at 20, she's rarely seen in anything but jeans or leggings.

BlueSapphire

I remember when I was teaching in the 1970s, our headmistress refused to let women staff wear trousers as she thought they were unprofessional. We managed to wear her down and she saw sense and gave in.

Same here I was an infants teacher in the 70s and where did they gather in the morning for registration on a rug in front of you. She eventually gave in and let us wear tailored trousers.
One older teacher I worked with told me when a probationer "Only infant teachers can sit on the floor without showing their knickers", now I would ask" Why did we do it so much?"

TerriBull

I did see a picture of a schoolgirl wearing ankle grazer type trousers who was admonished for showing her ankles, I think she was told they could be deemed some sort of "sexual turn on" good grief! clearly in the mind of someone who is back in the 1890s

Another waist roller here, as short as we could get away with, outside of school, the nuns at my convent were of the opinion that patent shoes some sort of deviant/sinner's footwear, one's knickers could be seen in them allegedly! I think one smart arse said "oh well I just won't wear them then" the nun who was advising us on the appropriateness of our footwear was temporarily speechless, trying to work out whether "I won't wear them" referred to the shoes or her knickers

My friend was told the same by nuns about patent leather shoes, they were also told to sit on a telephone directory if sitting on a boy's lap. We all fell about when she told us, imagine people going to a dance or party with a telephone directory.
At our school, we had to kneel on the floor and our skirts had to touch it as did our divided skirt shorts. Under which we had to show our navy knickers by hanging from the wall bars. A friend had the class in an uproar when her mother had managed to get her a pair with pockets in and she insisted on lifting her skirt to get her hanky out of her pocket.
I was personally reprimanded for wearing flesh-coloured tights which left too much to the imagination. My mother had got a job lot cheap from the Co op and would not buy me some darker ones. So I had to revert to the old knees socks which were bright red!!! Of course, they didn't insite any boys the school was co_ed, especially when you had your skirt turned over three times aged 18. They were school uniform.

The problem seems to lie in the length of skirts; I've seen some so short that I worried they might strangle the wearer. This is from someone who wore very short minis. I wore a simple 4 gore skirt to school, there was no waistband to turn over, the skirt sat on the hip bones. Schools could think about asking girls to wear skortles; these would be difficult to turn over.

I remember wearing the almost ankle length school skirts with chunky shoes and the stubby tie too 😍

At my granddaughter’s prep school they wear culottes. That seems very sensible to me.

We rolled the waists of our skirts over to shorten them a little bit, but nowhere near how short they are today. Our Home Economics teacher used to stand at her classroom door with a cane and you got whacked across the back of your legs and told to lengthen your skirt as you went passed.

I remember when I was teaching in the 1970s, our headmistress refused to let women staff wear trousers as she thought they were unprofessional. We managed to wear her down and she saw sense and gave in.

Not at school but in my first job, someone said to me 'That's a nice belt. Where's your skirt?'

We wore gingham shirtwaisters in the summer. It was amazing how many stiff net petticoats you could get under a skirt. In the winter it was GoRay skirts and the Senior Mistress might get you to kneel in the corridor to measure its height above your knee. Similarly you might get stopped if she thought you’d bosom was hitched too high . Different times but the same ideas. Subtle rebellion

We had to kneel and the hem had to touch the floor .
Hair wasn't allowed past the top of your collar and if it did was tied up with rough scratchy string .
Nail polish removed with acetone .
Faces were scrubbed clean of all traces of make up .
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School uniform had to be worn properly and that included hat wearing .
Failure to do so meant a detention and lines to write out .

Oh, yes! Us too. Single sex school too. And no patent shoes allowed, in case our knickers were reflected in them! Hair below the collar had to be tied up…. No one complained, least of all the parents.

I think you’d make a great Head then😂 yes, all those things and hair in neat plaits too.

“Oreo” I would be tempted to make it a rule (if I was head) that boys have to wear their dresses with white ankle socks in summer and their skirts with flesh coloured tights irrespective of weather. Clark T-bar sandals and brown lace up low healed brogues would be the only acceptable footwear
Just kidding !😉

You’d think teenagers had only just been invented
😁 I can remember when they were in the 1950s.
Before then we dressed like our mothers.

Thank goodness they don't have to wear gym slips

GagaJo

As a teacher, I used to get fed up with girls in skirts so short I could see bum cheeks. With protests of 'body shaming' if it was brought up.

All, boys, girls, trans, should wear trousers. IMO. Cut out all the problems.

Good idea.

Girls aren't allowed to wear trousers at DGD's school.

I can remember when DD and her friends fought for the right to wear trousers, at least in the 6th form; that was 30 years ago. They won, but we seem to have gone backwards since then.

I think they already are in some schools Grandmarderby
😄

Cold precisely that.