Did you pull your skirt up at senior school to make it shorter? my colleagues are saying that they did

[WillowTit]

i started senior school in 1977 and have no recollection of pulling my skirt up,
it was quite a long skirt as far as i can remember, and often worn with an embarrassing home knitted jumper!
i guess i wasnt cool
but i dont think skirts were pulled up in my school

Yes but we would get in trouble for it! All girls independent school with strict rules!

Yes, not sure why. My skinny, white legs were a treat for no one.

I didn’t because I would do anything to not draw attention to myself in school! Hated being told off too. But I know girls who did.

No.

I started secondary school in 1973 and we all rolled our skirts at the waistband!

Yes! (90s teenager, grammar school that cared a lot about it's results)

Then I decided school uniform was stupid and made a fairly feeble excuse to wear jeans and wore jeans for the final three years of school.
I feel quite bad now because I knew the teachers weren't going to dare challenge me because I was going to get them a string of top grades .

I did on the bus on the way home. I went to a strict Catholic all girls' school and as a result was boy mad. There were 2 boys high school on the way home that the bus stopped outside and they would all pile onto the bus. I really fancied one of them so I would roll up my skirt and my put my lip gloss on in preparation. He ended up being my first boyfriend.

Yes, rolled it up at the waist.

So did we

My mum made me wear those knee length skirts with pleats in the front, so in sewing class one day I sewed the pleats up so it was like a pencil skirt. No doubt I rolled it up a bit too.

Got caught out when I had an accident at school and my mum was called to take me to hospital. I had to beg the first aid teacher for scissors so I could unpick all the stitching 😫

No, but I went to a fairly strict grammar school and the deputy head was on the lookout for transgressors and I was well behaved and hated to be in trouble 😀

I only ever wore low waist, bootcut black trousers with tight fitted white shirt so no rolling up for me (unless we’re talking spliffs at lunchtime…)

My daughter and her friends like to wear their skirts rather short, to the point where they buy primark pj twinsets in all different patterns just so they can wear the little shorts underneath.

No, I don't think it was a thing when I was at secondary school in the '80s. And then at some point pencil skirts came into fashion.

For me too in the 80s. Long, tight skirt with back slit and oversized school jumper was the style where I was. We also wore white grandad shirts, folding the tiny collar over our ties, which were tied on the skinniest bit of the tie (the long wide end was dangling to mid-thigh, but not visible thanks to the giant jumper!). Cool!!!

Yes, rolled mine up. I was in HS during the 90s and it was a thing lots of others did too.

Funnily enough, I’m now a governor at my old HS and they’ve just reissued their uniform guidance - including a specific reminder that skirts aren’t to be rolled up!! 🤣

Yes. We rolled our waist band down to make a calf length skirt into a mini! It left a massive roll of fabric around the waist, that we had to hide with a big sloppy oversized jumper. So stupid!

I was at secondary from 1995-2002.

Definitely. As short as I could (un)reasonably get away with… and I didn’t really get away with it but still, I persisted 😅 it was a tight skirt so sort of worn quite high on my waist and rucked up a bit, if that makes sense. Mid to late noughties.

Why?

Not in the late 80s no, we all wanted long Goth skirts from charity shops

Yes 1980

Only when short skirts were in fashion. At one point it was long skirts so we didn’t bother then

No, but I was at HS 85-90 and our uniform rules just specified colour of skirt so as long as it was grey there wasn't a problem. It meant our skirts were fashionable or practical depending on what one felt like.
I'd rather pupils rebel by coming up with weird ways of tying their ties TBH as it shows more imagination.
Short and fat. Long and skinny. Mid skinny.
Pulling threads out of the tie to slightly alter stripes.
We didn't have blazers but kept sweets in the flap at the bottom of our ties. And lip gloss or lunch money.

No, we had brown tunics rather than skirts

No. It was early 80s and the fashion was tight tight pencil skirts with a spilt up the back. So tight were the skirts with no lycra for give, that they were always ripping up the split part, and many a lunch time was spent in the needlework room sewing them back up.

Yes!