to think schoolgirls shouldn't wear short skirts?

[cruelladepoppins]

I mean really short, barely bum-covering, as I saw at our local senior school open day yesterday evening?

It was just indecent. Even with thick tights. Do the boys (and teachers) just look in another direction?

How do the girls run around, bend to pick something up etc?

I was talking to the mum of one of them, and she says she's dreading when they do their work experience this year, she just can't get her DD to understand a pelmet might not be appropriate for a workplace. They think it's OK because everyone wears them to school. I'm not kidding, I didn't see a single knee-length skirt, nor even a just-above-the-knee one.

I'm the mother of boys (oh-oh) - any mothers of girls out there care to defend the teeny-skirt idea?

I've joined the zombie thread chat...

However, this issue will continue in September so it is still relevant today as it was when the thread was started!

I'm 71...we used to do this as well! But then we had knicker inspections as well, to make sure we were wearing the regulation big thick navy knickers....

There's a secondary school near me where the uniform for girls is short checked skirts and white knee socks. Fine for little girls but looks entirely wrong when they're 15 and 16 and have the skirts rolled up even higher

I think half the blame has to lie with school clothing manufacturers, the more fashionable skirts are always really short especially on my dd who at 5ft6 has 31/32” inside leg!

The skirts that are longer and the pleated , heavy material that are horrid looking ones and even at my age I wouldn’t wear them!

We had games skirts which were shorter than the uniform skirts so girls would wear those rather than their school uniform skirt.

I’m not from the UK originally (EU country), and I’ve never got used to seeing British girls wearing school uniform skirts. I cringe when I see them. Just so inappropriate.

Hardly a new problem. I'm 35 and remember rolling my skirt up till it barely covered my backside.

I was very thin as young teen and used to wear a skirt in a small size as it fit me on the waist but was bum length. My mother left for work at 8am and wasnt home til 5pm, what was she supposed to do?

Hardly a new problem

Well to be fair the thread was started in 2010..

I've also just had a sudden realisation that I was still in school when this thread was started 😣

oh another zombie thread. I remember in the 80s rolling my skirt up at school.

Yay zombie thread.

In my experience (teacher, parent of teen, former teen) you can send your kids out in entirely appropriate regulation-length school skirts, and some will still hoick them up before they walk through the school gates! Rolling them at the waist is common practice.
I always have a giggle and an eye roll when I see parents have gone to the papers with “my teenager was sent home because her skirt was too short! It’s not, look!” Yes, it’s not now, and I’m sure it wasn’t when you sent her out that morning.

at dd's school, most girls wear trousers the odd few wear skirts. I have noticed the skirts are short. I'm glad dd wears trousers shes 5ft7 so finding a proper school skirt knee length has been impossible.

Oh dear Lord, when we went to the school for the orientation visit after coming out from NZ - THE SKIRTS!!! Or lack thereof. To me, it looked like an awful lot of them had forgotten to put on their skirt, and just put on a wide elasticated belt. And THE SLAP!!!

I'm used to it now. Sort of. Unfortunately one of my daughters has assimilated rather too well in terms of preferred skirt length.

I think trousers should be the default, but not compulsory. There are some religious girls who will only wear skirts, and they are not likely to be rolling them up anyway.

Skirts are inherently more restrictive than trousers anyway. Ours weren't particularly tight, but I still couldn't take a full length step in mine. So that's another reason they get rolled up. Having ankle length skirts would only make this worse (and somewhat Handmaid's Tale).

I think it's problematic to blame teenage girls for sexualising themselves when they're doing it partly because of the expectations society has placed on them, and they just haven't matured out of that pressure yet.

It's not their responsibility to stop boys objectifying them, regardless of their attire.

I went to a (girls') grammar school and sometimes we were made to kneel down in assembly to have our skirts measured. Didn't stop everyone rolling them back up once they got out though.

I really don't think most girls who roll up their skirts are trying to be sexy as much as just cool and rebellious. That was certainly the case for us. Some kids teamed the rolled skirts with jumpers that were actually baggier than the uniform ones; it was about showing a degree of disregard for the rules more than anything else. Literally being too cool for school.

I'm not accepting any bollocks about underage girls sexualising themselves; let the boys learn to look away or control themselves, if we're going to do the "oh what will it teach them for when they leave school" thing.

Are there any non-religious schools that don't let girls wear trousers? That's a problem if so.

Wow a vintage 2010 thread. Someone must have searched for schoolgirls and short skirts to bring this up.

Those teenagers would be in their 20s by now.

My daughter’s school changed its school uniform last year to black jeans, no rips anywhere, black hoodies or sweatshirts and a choice of 4 different school polo shirts. Plain black trainers, no logos.
This uniform is exactly the same for girls and boys, problem solved, no skirts of any length !!
Jeans cannot have the bum crack showing for girls or boys !!!
All kids look the same !

@Greeneyedminx

My daughter’s school changed its school uniform last year to black jeans, no rips anywhere, black hoodies or sweatshirts and a choice of 4 different school polo shirts. Plain black trainers, no logos. This uniform is exactly the same for girls and boys, problem solved, no skirts of any length !! Jeans cannot have the bum crack showing for girls or boys !!! All kids look the same !

That's such a good idea.

The girls have the option of a skirt or trousers at my kids school, I would say when given that choice 95% of them will wear trousers

@ShebaShimmyShake

I really don't think most girls who roll up their skirts are trying to be sexy as much as just cool and rebellious. That was certainly the case for us. Some kids teamed the rolled skirts with jumpers that were actually baggier than the uniform ones; it was about showing a degree of disregard for the rules more than anything else. Literally being too cool for school.

I'm not accepting any bollocks about underage girls sexualising themselves; let the boys learn to look away or control themselves, if we're going to do the "oh what will it teach them for when they leave school" thing.

Are there any non-religious schools that don't let girls wear trousers? That's a problem if so.

Definitely rebellion here, too!

Wow including teachers in looking at the arses of these girls is wrong. Why were you looking???? Not nice being lumped into the perv lookers is it.
Girls have been walking out the door in a knee length skirt and pulling up for decades. Whether you approve or not is not uo for discussion quite frankly.

It was very normal in my secondary schoo I left in 97. I haven't noticed it in DD's primary although DD's skort can look short she has really long slim legs with the shorts attached she can still mess about.
Mostly the girls wear trousers after October.