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’m the same age as you and we never rolled our skirts up!

And at our local grammar. It’s not a state/grammar thing. 🙄

Oh, I remember the tights in the '70s.

American Tan was definitely out. The fashionable girls wore white. For some weird reason, Mum wouldn't let me, so I had to wear grey. One shade was 'Dove Grey'. Can't remember the other one, but they were purchased from Woolie's.

Rolled mine up at wasistband

More like showing your wares!

You can’t roll a gym slip up but it got shorter as I grew.

Yes rolled it up at the waist. Late 90s.

Many girls did but not all, certainly myself and my best mate didn’t.

Yes, only grey tights that I used to sew up when I got a ladder. I bought ‘pewter’.

I remember doing the same. Also used nail varnish to stop a run.

No. Because firstly the waists weren't elasticated and it would have been difficult and uncomfortable even it if was possible at all and secondly, the deputy head kept a hawk eye on the girls' skirts and shoes.

Also, this was long enough go that a lot of us wore slips under our skirts - to the point that the code 'Charlie's dead' meant that your slip was showing.

No, we wore our own clothes in another country and all my class mates always wore jeans, including me, including summer

No - but the midi was in fashion when I was at high school in the '70s.

Yes, late 60s but not as short as todays

We all wore long pencil skirts. Late 80s. No short skirts at school as far as I remember

Mid-90s - most definitely rolled up. A-line skirts so the shape went a bit weird, but I managed to pick one up from the second hand shop where someone had taken one of the panels out so it was straight.

And then in 6th Form went completely the other way and wore ankle length grunge skirts (as I said, this was the mid-90s).

80s here so it was more about taking in the side seams to try to create a pencil skirt like the ones worn by the girls from the Human League! 😁

Yes. At secondary school in the 80s

Yes, we all did in 1977, when I was fifth form as it was known back. I let my pony tail down on the way to school, and added a bit of kohl around my eyes, Sprayec a bit of Mary Quant’s Havoc on and flirted with the sixth form boys. Then went home after putting my hair back up, rubbing the eyeliner off and putting my skirt right, and listened to David Cassidy in my bedroom. And fell asleep dreaming about the sixth former, didn’t we all?

Yes

Absolutely not. I would have been in trouble at school and I would have hated that because I was A Good Girl. 😇

Rolled up, then I just took scissors to it and rehemmed it. I also made thumb holes in my jumper sleeves and made my mum buy me secondhand jumpers so that they were more shapeless. I teamed this with often laddered tights and shoes from dolcis. My main accessories were cigarettes, I once walked all the way onto the school grounds and got level with the science staff room before realising I was still puffing away. I’d sneak off at break for a cigarette too.

Started grammar school in 1995.

most of the girls wore trousers at our school, late eighties, early nineties, and the ones who did wear the skirts rolled them up

Yes, and I was the straightest kid in school, I probably didn’t roll it up as much as some but even I knew to not roll it was social death. Grammar school, 1989-1996.

I despair that my DDs’ school still seems to be in the business of policing young girls’ bodies, ignoring the fact that many generations before them have tried and failed (both DDs wear trousers, so the policing has no effect on them, but IMO it is still tilting at windmills).

It was indeed social death.