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. We used to roll the waistband to make them into miniskirts. I'm 66.

I started in secondary school in 1977 too, and we did not shorten our midi length skirts at all, ever.

That was a much later thing, iirc, from the 1990s.

I started high school in 1989 and everyone was rolling them up. The uniform rules were knee length but everyone would roll them back for inspection and then back up again afterwards!

Yes I rolled mine up. Now I see the local high school girls walking to school with ridiculously short skirts and I think they look awful 😖

We were both at inner city schools with super lax uniform requirements before our DParents decided to move us out into the sticks, for context.

Yes, despite regular uniform checks. Eighties. The school skirt as bought was royal blue, knee-length, with flap fake pockets and two pleats at the front. As doctored, it was mid-thigh, with the pleats sewn up and a split at the back.

Oh no! Not this again.

I swear there is a school skirt troll on MN. 🙈

In fact, it was such a not done thing that there were never any uniform skirt length checks.

I started secondary the same year as you and at our school the longer skirts were seen as more rebellious! No one would have been seen dead with anything above the knee. The ideal was mid calf to ankle length. 😂

I was at school in the 60's too and we didn't. No idea why, it just wasn't a thing.

Yes rolled it up. Everyone did. I was small so my skirts were always too long anyway and I ended up with a big bunch of fabric rolled up around my waist.

No. By 15 or so I wore ankle skimming skirts most of the time, ones which clung to my hips and then flared out as I walked. Often teamed with a purple (not regulation) cashmere jumper and purple docs.

Yes - that was what is was like at my school.
Worn with long thick white socks pushed down to be all bunched up, clunky loafer style shoes and the most baggy cardigan you could find that would be buttoned with just a couple of buttons at the bottom which sort of made a billowed shape (not sure if billowed is the right word🤔).

Yes, I rolled mine ridiculously short. My jumper barely covered it! I recently found a photo and I don’t know how my teachers didn’t tell me off for it!

In my school the fashion was for long skirts down to the ankles.

1990s

I left school in 1980, short skirts were not the trend then, we had skirts well below the knee then.

also had clunky loafer shoes!

No. We had a fucking horrible uniform which included bottle green A line skirts with a button (no elastic) so not possible to roll so no one did. If relevant it was an all girl school (strict) so no lads to attract and even if there had been the brown knee length socks and beige blouses would have sent them running away to vomit!

I did try rolling an elasticated skirt out of school once and it gave me such an unflattering chunky waistline I wondered why people bothered!

Anyway the girls round here all wear very short rolled skirts to secondary school. What makes me laugh is you see them at weekends and they're all in baggy jeans or baggy joggers. Not a short skirt to be seen!

I was at secondary from 1980. The fashion was for longer skirts. I don’t recall anyone rolling their skirts up when I was at school.

No. I was an 80’s girl so we wore the longest, straightest pencil skirts money could buy. We shuffled about like geishas, stood in third position and couldn’t bend our knees to get on the bus.

No but we had ankle length pleated skirts so there was no point. And we were too afraid of the headmistress!

Of course. This was the 60s, mini skirts just invented by Mary Quant.
Also wore make up to school & coloured my hair. Hint of a tint.

1970s. Yes I think we did

😂😂😂

Mid 80s in secondary absolutely. By the time we were in sixth form in late 80s I use to pull them down on my hips so they were tripping length.