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

I remember the long skirts too. My kids think it's weird that girls were told off for too long skirts!

In the 80’s - yes 😳😆

Absolutely not. I was at school before mobile phones were a common and everyday thing but my parents would have heard on the grapevine before got home. In those days it was normal to hit your kids. I would have walked through the door and go a slipper launched at my head and a slap. My dad would have ranted about me making an embarrassment of him and putting horns on his head ( no idea what it meant but that's how it translates in English).

Of course! 1980s

Yes. Late 90s/early 00s.

Most of us did, but nothing like some of the skirt lengths I see now. They may as well not be wearing one!

Mid 90s- yes I rolled up my skirt although I do remember some girls wearing long pleated skirts.

Yes rolled skirt up and wrinkled socks all the way down

Oh yes and also farrah (sp?) trousers for girls at school in the 80s. Our school uniform was so relaxed; you could practically wear anything but nobody rolled up their skirts. Not cool at all in the mid 80s. It's funny because I asked my friend who is only a few years younger than me and she said that she did. So I'm wondering if it's also a regional thing, as she was from a different area.

It was definitely a thing at the start of the 70s. At least in winter. Not so easy with a gingham summer dress.

What area did you go to school? Short skirts were considered uncool at my school.

We rolled the waist band over as soon as we were round the corner.

1980 - 1985 and yes, we all did!

No. I went to high school in the late 90s and we actually fought and won for girls to be able to wear trousers. So that's all I wore to school 😆

Yes, and my DD and her friends did too.

Yes - mid 90s in a push all girls’ boarding school. A few teachers cared but many turned a blind eye. DD1 (14) now rolls hers up so short that we have a daily conversation about the risk of arse cheek showing on the streets of South London, much to DD2’s amusement despite the fact she will inevitably follow suit when she starts secondary school in September.

Absolutely! As did my mother back in her day. (60s). It was always an ongoing battle between teachers and girls. Which has carried on to DD's time. Am eternally grateful that she is off to college where they couldn't care less about skirt length.

I wore trousers. People used to roll their shirts up at my school so as not to have to tuck them in. I didn't understand this because it would invariably fall out and was much more annoying to keep having to roll it every time a teacher walked past!

Also there was a trend for making your tie really short so they introduced a rule that your tie had to be long enough to show the school logo and two stripes above it.

Yep all the time. Then rolled it down when I turned the corner into my street in case my Dad saw me!

In the 80’s yes and my mum said she did in the 60’s both private all girls schools 😀

80s goth. That long and straight I could but shuffle and had to ascend the stairs sideways. Could barely see out of my crimped fringe and black eyeliner anyway!

no gingham summer dress in senior school here

90’s - absolutely used to roll the short skirts up and would sometimes wear my PE skirt home as that was shorter.

I also had a longish pleated skirt that I would wear right down on my hips to make it almost touch the floor.

I don’t see why people get so worked up about how short girls wear their skirts as it’s been happening for years!

Rolled the waistband a couple of times and wore it like that.

The girls in the schools where I live wear teeny skirts with oversized blazers, and they look like they're not wearing skirts at all.

No, knee length then calf length was the fashion in my high school days.

We all did.

I was secondary school 04-09.

Our skirtes were awful! It was becoming a thing for schools to restrict the uniform like we all fight now so one allowed skirt that can only be bought from the schools shop. They were a really odd length and quite thick compared to some and we'd started rolling them as it stopped the bottom rubbing against the back of our knees.

I then think it just grew into typical teenage rebellion. E.g. this group of people who we think have no right to tell us how to dress have said it must be this way, so we're going to do the opposite.

We used to have Fridays where at the end of assembly they'd let the boys leave, then slowly let the girls leave one by one, you had to show the waistband of your skirt and if it was rolled or you refused, your card would be signed (5 spaces, 5th one filled = detention)

You can imagine our detention sessions were filled with girls because all 5 sections would be marked "uniform violation"