Why are girls uniforms so short ?

@Vicyes there's something very off about you posting pics of teenage girls bums on various uniform threads

Obviously I don't know your daughter but mine would have been delighted to go to school in trousers. Primary uniform where I live seems to be ok, it's at secondary that the girl's skirts turn into pelmets (sound like my mum).

We have a " no skirts rolled up" policy at school so some of our kids have action had their kilts professionally shortened. Not much you can do when parents allow it, I despair

Nope not noticed this at all but then DD wears leggings under her dresses as she doesn’t like tights. We do have trousers but she prefers the dresses, can’t say anything of them are “short” 🤷🏻‍♀️ secondary is different but as pointed out that’s because the girls are rolling them up.

Trousers are fine.
pinafore dresses are good for young girls.
All of the girls skirts at my school reach to at least their knees.

I'm old, as my user name suggests, and I was driving past our local high school and I was aghast at how short the girls' skirts were. I was talking to my friend on the phone about it and she snorted with derision, reminding me of the time when I was collared by the headmistress because from behind it looked as if I wasn't wearing a skirt at all as it was the same length as my blazer. But the primary school children locally don't have very short skirts at all, and a lot of the girls are wearing trousers.

You can get knee length skirts everywhere. Older kids may roll them up. DD and her friends do but then wear shorts or leggings or thick tights underneath. They also have the option of wearing shorts or trousers and some do.

The regular uniform (in our school) is supposed to be to the knee and skirts are available in different lengths. Older girls roll them and get told off every once in a while.
Younger girls don't care (about rolling them shorter) but in our school would wear their sports skorts underneath as they often had to sit cross legged on the floor - this wasn't a requirement obviously but the girls themselves did it. I think they can now wear trousers but the primary part have summer dresses.
We did have a problem with the games skorts. Once a girl started developing they became increasingly problematic til it was decided they needed to wear leggings! So now poor girls were doing sport wearing four layers! We went back and forth with the manufacturers on that one.
If your girl has long legs and the skirts are the standard Tesco type it is tricky!

I'll happily rant about the impracticality of girls' primary school uniforms. No option of trousers here and girls' school shoes are awful. I don't think the skirts are short though, DD's are just below the knee which is fine with me.

I agree about secondary school uniforms though. All the secondary schools near me have full length skirts and uniforms, above the knee is unusual where I'm from. So I do find the very very short skirts some wear a bit strange.

My kids always wore skorts, you can even buy skort style summer dresses these days ….much more practical for the climbing frame!

This.
I would completely agree with you if commenting on Secondary girls skirts (or rather how they chose to wear them) - our little high street is awash with near visible bum cheeks at 3.30! Never mind self respect, what about safety!
But primary? Never had that problem

I bet most school skirts are actually the school's regulation length when they leave the house but are rolled up on the way to school.
I was a dab hand at this 40 years ago , but I was wrangling with an actual kilt, not just a pleated skirt.

Aren't pinafore dresses really useful as at 4 they are not as coordinated in more likely to get paint, glue, food etc. On them. I don't think they are short but perhaps that has changed in the last 7 years.

”skirts these days are too short” has been a complaint for at least hundred years, honestly. I remember my father going off about it when I was a teen. I got into the attic, found his old yearbook from his final year of secondary in the 70s, and started flipping through pages and pointing. That was the end of that.

Shorter, lighter skirts and pinafores are usually easier to run and play in when small than the heavy knee-length ones, and don’t get trod or in the way when on the floor. Offer your children the option of trousers/shorts if available at their school, and if your DD chooses skirts get her soft shorts to go under. For long-legged, lanky girls it can be worth buying skirts bigger so the length is comfortable and having the waist taken in, rather than compromising on length to buy the right waist size.

Can't say I've particularly noticed short skirts on primary school girls where I live. Most of them wear tights under the skirts most of the year anyway.

Is she particularly tall? My daughter started school in age 3-4 skirts and then went down to mid calf. She's now in year 6 (age 10) and wears an 8-9 skirt that is knee length. She prefers trousers though and wears them most days.

At primary? Girls uniforms cone in every variety. Skorts and culottes pretty popular at dds school.
Secondary a whole diff story but that's not for you to worry about now!

No, she won't be "alienated by other girls" because 4 year olds don't give a fuck about what other girls are wearing. Are you expecting her reception class to be like mean girls?! Loads of girls in my sons' primary classes wear trousers. But also the skirts aren't short, they sit just above the knee and many of them wear shorts underneath as well. Some of them also have the checkered summer dress pattern in shorts for the summer term

Dd has never worn skirts or dresses to school. She's in year 7 now and lots of her year mates wear trousers.

Secondary age girls roll up their skirts. I didn't find that the primary age skirts were too short though. Do you have a choice of styles? The pleated ones give more freedom for running around in the playground.

I also think a lot is how the average waist size has grown. DD’s (13) school skirt is way above her knees but she’s a 26 inch waist. If I bought a skirt that would fit her knees, she would need to wear braces! I wish secondary school clothes still had the elastic band in which you could tighten!

Edit: She wore pinafores at primary and they seemed to fit better than a skirt.

Skirts are not too short, but teenaged girls, all over thexworld, will know the art of rolling the waistband to make them so.
You duaghters will be doing it in another 10-12 years!
Unless we have been obliviated by ww3 by then

My daughter wears leggings to school - but I think we’re a bit more relaxed about uniform in Scotland. She’s 9 and doesn’t like skirts or dresses. She used to wear skirts. Can’t remember having an issue with them being too short (apart from when she had growth spurts and all her clothes were suddenly too small!). But I always put little shorts under skirts whatever the length as she was forever climbing or doing cartwheels at the park and I didn’t think the world needed to see her knickers!!

Let your daughter wear what she wants. I really don’t see why she would be alienated for wearing trousers…

Put her in the trousers. She sounds like she may be tall for her age as most uniforms I have seen are knee length at least.