Short School Skirts.

Strangely enough when I was at high school in the early-mid 1970s it was the era of the Midi-skirt and girls' skirts were deemed too LONG!! So pupils cannot win ...

However my school allowed a trousers option for girls in 1976. I find it very odd that the school in Merseyside prohibits girls from wearing trousers which seems very old fashioned in 2023.

My DDs attended a non uniform school in Scandinavia and seemed to have few of these issues

Lizabethan good job we mainly have only single deckers round here then.

Oreo it seems that adolescent and adult males are challenged by so very many things and a short school skirt worn over dark thick tights or leggings ought to be the very least of these.
Interestingly though, you don’t here of many lads wanting to wear skirts or dresses (yet) it’ll happen I’m sure.

Trousers: hum….“They” whoever they are would manage to find problems with those too. You’d think teenagers had only just been invented
Fact: people aged say from 12 to 18 like to experiment with style especially within the confines of a school uniform.
I don’t believe it’s to rebel at all it is just following the fashions and wanting to blend in with their peers.
I personally didn’t give two hoots what anyone over the age of about 20 thought about my clothing when at school, they simply did not figure in the equation.
As long as there are not real issues of inappropriate exposure, just leave the kids alone and stop being fuddy duddies😆

We had to kneel on a chair so a teacher could measure how many inches there were between the hem and the chair. We had to be sure our navy blue knickers could not be seen. Also not allowed to wear patent shoes because of the reflection. There are several high schools near us and the length of the skirts really is very very short. They scarcely cover their bottoms. I travel to work on a bus. Girls on the bus cover their bottoms with their hands when going up the stairs, so they must realise that they are displaying everything.

Shaming girls based on uniforms is another way society fails women

I used to roll mine up..
Then the fashion changed and skirts became Midi.. We got into trouble for wearing skirts that were too long.

At my granddaughters school it’s trousers for everyone.
That saved a lot of tears every morning 😄

Galaxy

My French teacher was sleeping with the science teacher. We sometimes saw them snogging. We responded with great maturity as you can imagine.

My French teacher had a thing with the art teacher, and the science teacher always had half bottle of whisky in his lab coat.

Surely all school students should wear trousers - problem solved!

I wear ankle grazers, they pair well with my very comfy but chunky looking trainers. Also they solve my “shrinking woman” problem, I’m sooo fed up with too long trousers like some standard length ones I bought recently from M&S, they are voluminous in all the wrong places.

TerriBull thats’s brilliant. Convent education eh- the gift that keeps on giving😉

My French teacher was sleeping with the science teacher. We sometimes saw them snogging. We responded with great maturity as you can imagine.

monk08

We had to do that JaneJudge it's a shame the French teacher didn't lead by example, hers was what my mother would call a pelmet.

I had a French teacher like that!
I loathed her and she really put me off the subject, which I regret to this day.

We’ll call her Mademoiselle Walsh.
Anyway, I was in a lift at school with a couple of other female teachers, and I overheard one saying to the other;

‘She’s far to old to be calling herself Mademoiselle’

I was thrilled!

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

Odd isn’t it. In the sixties and seventies it was long haired boys and men causing consternation amongst the adults.
When I was at senior school mid seventies*it was wearing a short stubby tie and top blouse button undone paired with almost ankle length skirts and huge clomping great platform clog-type shoes ( always with pewter grey nylon tights) and from my memory probably a *feather cut hairstyle to complete the look. Anyone remember that?
Trousers not allowed then at our school but Oxford bags and tank tops over blouses with huge collars was the other “look” of those times.
Then when my son was at school - nineties, it was very short hair with shaved sides - think Peaky Blinders, this was considered by the head to be aggressive and intimidating ! Always with the shirt hanging out though that was crucial to the look.😉

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.

But then they would leave the top buttons of their blouse undone Gagajo I remember a girl complaining and calling a boy a "pervert" because he was staring at her cleavage, he was, of course, the 'wrong' boy, not the one she was targeting!!

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.

Twas ever thus, certainly back in the 60ies. We had the “kneeling on the floor” rule where skirts had to touch the floor. Later, in the school where I taught, a ruler was used as girls knelt, as skirts had to be no more than two inches from the floor.
At least girls wear dark tights now rather than white socks.
Personally, I think teachers have better things to do than check and give punishments for uniform infringements. Management needs to have a rethink.

We had to do that JaneJudge it's a shame the French teacher didn't lead by example, hers was what my mother would call a pelmet.

We used to roll ours over at the waist when we left home, roll them back down at school then back over when we left school. I'm not sure skirts are shorter now. Mine we're pretty short.

I do remember once remarking to a teenage friend that her skirt was shorter than her earrings. She said "that's the sort of thing my mother might say"

I see girls at my local secondary school who I sometimes think have forgotten to put their skirt on. But they are young and it's their right. I wouldn't deny them that. "Gather ye rosebuds ..." and all that.
Mind if my DGD goes for that as she gets older I can imagine my DS not liking it!

‘their’ not ‘they’re’ in OP.

we used to have to kneel on the floor and the hem had to touch the floor. It didn't appear to stop girls getting pregnant though before their exams had been taken