Help! Radio5Live want our thoughts on Tesco's "mini" school-uniform skirt

I wouldn't buy it for my daughter. Certainly not for school anyway. It's a fashion item, not a school uniform skirt. It's not so much the length that bothers me, it's the design. Far too grown up for primary school. No doubt I'll see it on a few pupils at dd's school come the autumnn though.

My dd has a couple of shortish skirts for casualwear but I am prim enough to beleive that school skirts should be fairly plain and shouldn't be more than a couple of inches above the knee (growth spurt just before the end of term notwithstanding).

I think shortish (ie not arse skimmingI skirts on little girls are fine, dd (6) wears them instead of shorts in the summer and with leggings or thick tights in the winter.

But at a "hitch and stitch" school skirt? No.

It's ridiculous and as other posters have said, schools will ban it at once. However, I have noticed that is getting harder to find long enough school skirts - I have three daughters aged 7, 10 and 13 - imagine my surprise when my 13 year olds new M&S school skirt which I ordered online turned out to be shorter than an age 7 skirt.
The irony is many secondary school girls would like to wear longer school skirts, but they are difficult to find because retailers are pushing these ridiculously short numbers,.

It's hard to imagine what it looks like on an actual 9yo. I can see that with heavy tights and a sensible top it probably wouldn't be at all "sexualising". And a foot-long skirt on a 9yo covers a lot more than it would cover on me. But just from a picture of the skirt on its own it's hard to tell.

It's a seriously weird thing to sell as part of a school uniform range, though -- where on earth are there schools that would consider that this met their uniform restrictions?

It's a fashion skirt, not a school skirt. I would have had no problem with my daughters wearing it aged nine, coupled with woolly tights and flat boots but NOT for school - and not with bare legs, thin tights, shoes, heels etc.

However, to be marketing it as an appropriate skirt for a nine year old to wear to school is inappropriate and certainly not in the spirit of 'Let girls be girls' as I understand it.

The comments in the article linked to are verging on hysterical, especially re: the name. 'Hitch' is just a blatant plagiarism of a style sold by All Saints, which has been part of their range for years and prior to that, Vivienne Westwood has used the style for decades. It's a funky skirt rather than a tarty skirt imho but it should not be marketed as a school skirt.

Vile. But there is no way most primary schools would allow girls to wear that as part of their uniform.

Would the 'spokesman for Tesco' send his own daughter to school in that I wonder?

here Helen

There's a thread going on somewhere helen

with this amount of publicity i think the schools will be waiting for the girls to turn up in them.....then ban them instantly....so not going to happen is it,the girls wont get a chance to wear them