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

We had long skirts (maxi length) as an option, with side slits to the lower calves to allow for movement. We’d tear the slit so it went right up to the thigh.

I was telling my 84 year old neighbour about my dgd getting a detention for pulling her skirt up.
My neighbour said she remembered doing it and pinching her dad's braces to hold her skirt up higher.

So, a tale as old as time it seems.

The years I wore uniform at secondary school (‘72-‘77), skirt lengths got progressively longer. I remember the older girls doing this when I first started though.

should say ours were hideous looking wide A line things which looked much better shorter than knee length. As you rolled them up the A line got caught up and became straighter.

My sister is slightly older than me and that was her year groups style (early/mid 80s).
They all shuffled around the school corridors 😂

At school on the 90s. We rolled ours.

Yep, rolled up so there was a great thick wad of fabric round my waist. There were only a couple of girls in my school year who didn't, and sorry to say they were considered very weird. And I was at an all-girls grammar, in the 90s.

My mother apparently also did, which would have been in the mid 60s - and she went to an all-girls Catholic school and was taught by nuns!

I would say though that we only rolled up to mid thigh, some of the girls round here now you genuinely can't see if they have a skirt on (though maybe it's just my age talking!)

No. When I went to secondary school they all wore long maxi skirts with obligatory black moccasins shoes from Dolcis !

No, was at school in the 60s and we wore tunics in winter and ghastly dresses in summer, and had strict rules about how short a skirt could be.

Girls have been doing this since time immemorial, haven't they?

A big percentage of girls at my school did. I only folded mine over once, but that was because it was too tight otherwise! I was Not Cool and have never liked getting my legs out so at first it didn't occur to me. But at some point in year 9/10 it became known that I was still wearing the smallest size kilt I had had from year 7, so that became my thing, and girls would often mention it. Yes I was very slim (<sighs>), but in reality I could have done with a new one for some breathing room but refused for this reason. It was a choice between showing off the waist or the arse/thighs, and the waist won. Teenagers are ridiculous 🤦‍♀️

DC's school gave up the fight against arse-showing skirts a few years ago and mandated that everyone wear trousers.

My parents were very relaxed and let me have short skirts if I wanted so I didn’t feel the need but I remember people doing it when I was at school in the ‘00s

If it helps you feel better about your teenage self OP you’d fit right in with the artsy crowd at my teens school nowadays with your long skirts and handknitted jumpers.

We didn’t roll ours up but stitched up the side seams to make them so tight you couldn’t go to the loo without undoing them from the top like a pair of trousers walking in tiny little steps was the norm, stairs were a challenge and riding a bike wasn’t possible.

No. I went in jeans. Supposed to be a skirt but didn't fancy that.

It depends on your age. I was at secondary school in the late 80s; the fashion then was for longer skirts with pleats and flat knee-high boots. Worn with a shirt and knitted jumper. Nobody at my school rolled up there skirt; this was 1985-88 ish

No, secondary in late 80s and most of us wore trousers. The rules were very lax though, so trousers could be comfortable- just had to be grey, navy or black. DD hates the uniform trousers at her school as they have to be particular ones and they’re not comfy.

Yes. Late 1960s

Secondary school in late 90s-00s. We didn't at my school because the uniform skirts were very long - meant to be mid-calf but the fashion was to have them ankle length or more. With Kickers, which I was never allowed.

Other schools with more standard skirts did though

I didn't because I wasn't cool enough, and also thought I had fat legs (looking back at old photos I didn't then...now though is a different story!).

Many of the other girls did though. Rolled up skirts and Kickers were basically THE look at my 90s secondary!

Yes - and all my friends did too

No but only because skirts were ankle length. My dd rolls hers as soon as she leaves school (detention if caught on the school ground so just wears the waist around her armpits instead!)

Yep. In the early 90s, even at my all girls school with a strict uniform policy, we rolled up the waistband as they were a very unflattering just below knee length (or mid calf on me as I was very short!)

Everyone I can remember rolled their skirts up in the 1970s on the way home from school. You could never do it during the school day because if teacherd thought your skirt looked as though it was above the knee, you had to kneel on the ground and if your skirt didn’t touch the floor, it was an automatic detention.

Yes. 1995-2000. Very very short.

82-86...long, thin, very tight skirts here so def no rolling.

Went to secondary school in the noughties. Yes when I had a 'knee length' one, but there was also a year or two when long tight Jersey skirts popular instead.

We didn't have a uniform skirt, it just had to be dark gray or black.