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. Secondary school early 90s.

I spent most of my time in the state sector and rolling was unnecessary as my uniform skirt (bought & approved of by my Mum) was pretty short - to give you perspective my "to grow into" blazer was longer than my skirt. She was a child of the 60s.

Third school (private, strict uniform) wore kilts. We all used to spend ages rolling them up trying to get the back pleats to sit straight. And of course if you encountered the headman you had to surreptitiously roll it back down. Officially skirts had to touch the ground when you kneeled and it wasn't uncommon for girls to be made to kneel down. Punishment was pretty minor but I'm not sure I was ever caught. I did get punished once for having unpolished shoes!

I'm pretty square and everyone takes the piss out of my for being such a rule follower so this must have been pretty mainstream behaviour!

Yes we rolled ours right up to the arse! Also had those ridiculously tight skirts. 00s school years.

Too busy trying to get away with long skirts - partly because it was more comfortable and partly because the more fabric between us and the boys grabbing at us, the better.

No! Late 80s and after a growth spurt my skirt was too short in my final year of secondary school. I used to get made fun of for my short skirt. Long skirts were in then.

Yes and there were daily checks after assembly by the headteacher!

We did, but we were at secondary school in the early 00s.

Our teachers used to measure the distance between knee and skirt with a ruler. The 'cool' girls never seemed to be criticised for it (OR all the make up they wore), but I distinctly remember getting a letter home!

Yes. Went to a girls school in the 90s. The teachers spent a lot of time telling us to roll our skirts down.

There was a rumour that in the rival girls school in the next town, the pupils were made to kneel on a desk and the teachers would check that their skirts touched the table top.

One thing I never really understood though, if mini skirts were so bad, was why our p.e. uniform was a very, very short netball skirt. We were supposed to wear it over these ginormous 'athletics knickers' but they were so hideous that no-one bothered with them, just wearing normal underwear. We had some of our p.e. lessons in the local park. There were often dirty old men sat on nearby benches staring at us. Gross!!

Went to school in the 00's and it wasn't uncommon but not every girl did either. I did to various lengths.
My mum went to school in the 70's and rolled her skirt up.

I should add though, girls today a lot wear some type of shorts underneath which we never did.

It was long skirts that were the fashion when I was at school (late 80s) - wearing ankle length that was a potential trip hazard was our rebellion.
We had no uniform after the 3rd year (Year 9 in modern) and I don't remember anyone wearing a short skirt even then unless it was worn with thick black tights.

Yes, we rolled our skirts up, tied our shirt at our waist/under boob and pulled threads out of our tires to personalise them.

Yes, but not too short or you got detention. The teachers would measure how short your skirt was if it looked too short. It wasn't supposed to be more than two inches above your knee, anything more and you were in trouble. This was late sixties early seventies.

No. The uniform policy was incredibly slack but long skirts were more fashionable for teens than they are now so lots of us wore them way past the knee. Late 80s.

Absolutely. As soon as I left the house in a morning. Rolled it down before I got home. Wore over the knee thigh high socks so there was a gap between the top of them and the skirt. In sixth form, Doc Martens, black tights, black mini skirt. My mum said I looked like Max Wall…

Ooh, I remember Max Wall.

Yes, in the 90’s I was rolling my skirt up, I’d roll it up after leaving the house in the morning and back down again upon walking up the hill back home. On the rare occasion that my mum caught me I was in big trouble!

Yep. And you could also pull your jumper down over your skirt then hoist your arms and it would shorten your skirt. Easier to pull down if a teacher was passing.

I rolled mine up in the 80s. Forty years later my daughter does the same. There's nothing new under the sun.

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Absolutely. I’m sure they were Pippa Dee pleated skirts that you could fold the waist band to make the skirt shorter when you left the house

In the early 00’s a lot of people did. I didn’t I preferred a pencil skirt (so did my then boyfriend/now husband 🤣🤭)

At school in the 90s and yes, of course - everyone did. At least until Y10 when I decided being a goth was more fun and wore swishy floor length skirts instead 😂

My mum also rolled her skirt up in the 60s.

I went to secondary in the late 80s. We had a loose uniform policy and went through short skirt, long pleated skirt and trouser phases. I never rolled though, always bought different styles so my “short” was never obscenely short.

No, our school checked our skirt length (must be mid-knee) as we left assembly every morning. Plus I had fat legs anyway so liked them covered.

No, state secondary school in early '80s'
Moved to the school when I was in yr 10 and my sister in yr 7.
We campaigned (after gaining support from existing cohort) to get trousers as an option for girls and the Head folded and changed the school dress code.
No judgement on the skirt rollers, but find trousers much more comfortable, physically, physiologically and emotionally.

1995 and yep, rolled over the waistband. Everyone did.
Looked ridiculous as the waistband would be huge and lumpy and the skirt uneven