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To wonder how a school can allow their girls to dress like this?

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Piggyleroux · 10/10/2011 09:57

I only have 1 ds of 18 mo so am probably very out of touch but here goes.

I picked up dh from his weekend on call at queens hospital in Romford. On the way I was stuck in traffic outside a school and was frankly shocked by how short the girls skirts were. They were actually bum skimming. They also were all wearing over the knee black socks so a vast quantity of thigh was on show.

Am I just an old prude? I felt sad tbh that they felt they had to dress like this probably to fit in. Why doesn't the school impose a below the knee rule?

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LeQueen · 10/10/2011 10:12

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gordyslovesheep · 10/10/2011 10:12

yes ofcourse it matters - older kids tend to dress themselves - so they are choosing to look this way - seriously since when have teenaged girls dressed like nuns. It may not be nice but hands up who didn't roll their skirts up!

Bonsoir · 10/10/2011 10:13

IMVHO the reason English people dress so badly dismally is because of school uniforms. They didn't have all those formative years of dressing that the French, Italians, Spaniards etc have!

whathappenedtom · 10/10/2011 10:13

Hate hate hate the over the knee sock and skirt look wether they are 6 or 16, looks horrible.

MarshaBrady · 10/10/2011 10:13

Boys in awful black not very well fitted suit-type uniforms are much much more unflattering.

The girls at the nicest schools with nice colours look much nicer than a boy in black.

TimmyTimeRules · 10/10/2011 10:13

I bought my 15 yr old daughter a knee length skirt for school.As soon as she leaves the house and rounds the corner it gets rolled up until she gets to school were it gets rolled back down She rolls it back down as she has had lunchtime detentions because of her skirt length when it is rolled up. iyswim.
She then does all this in reverse when she finishes school for the day.
I know she does this because her younger sisters go on the same bus as her.
Her school and us parents are doing the best we can but between us we are not with her 24 hours a day!

whathappenedtom · 10/10/2011 10:14

My 10 year old pulls her skirt up so its short, what can I do? I can't follow her round at school pulling it down and I don't actually want to. Its the fashion, innit?

Bonsoir · 10/10/2011 10:14

Agree, Marsha. Cheap black uniforms are dreadful on boys or girls and are never "smart".

gordyslovesheep · 10/10/2011 10:15

also they where OUTSIDE of school so I doubt the school is 'letting' them dress like this - the question you should be asking is 'how do we stop teenage and pre-teen girls dressing like adult sex workers' a question as old as time

HerScaryness · 10/10/2011 10:15

I can't agree more, the school uniform 'modifications' are unacceptable, bum skimming 'wide belt' skirts are not appropriate school attire.

I'm in North Hampshire btw, so it's not only Essex! Schools need to maintain standards. to allow pupils to come to school like that is lazy.

squeakytoy · 10/10/2011 10:16

I think the over knee socks make the effect look more shocking. If they were wearing thick black or grey woolly tights, it would look a lot less provocative, but you try telling a teenage girl that... most of them WANT to look provocative... and that has been the way since we came out of the victorian ages..

LittleWaveyLines · 10/10/2011 10:16

Bonsoir nothing wrong with one inch above knee skirt and a blazer. Smart not unflattering. The girls however wear belts that expose the change in pattern at the top of tights, and flash underwear when they bend over! I am not exaggerating..... now that is deeply unflattering on your average tubby teen...

startail · 10/10/2011 10:19

I have it on very good authority, from a ex headmistress with an MBE for services to education, that the whole point of school uniform is to give the children something harmless to rebel against.
It matters to the pupils what they look like, it matters far more to the school that they turn up and do a bit of learning

Fo0ffyShmooffer · 10/10/2011 10:19

I think schools seem more lax about this than when I was at school ( way back when). I recently had the pleasure of witnessing the school day preparations of two girls at the bus stop. They attend the secondary school I used to attend and so could not have been more than 13 due to the colour of their jumper. (yr 7 &8 wear red jumpers).
They didn't need to hitch up their skirts due to them already wearing tiny mini skirts. One had jet black hair the other bleached to oblivion. Long hanging severely straightened.

The makeup on their faces was so thick and brown they looked grey iyswim.
They stood at the bus stop applying instant tan from a tube to their arms and legs. It was all over their hands. We got on the bus and every single pole they touched on their way up the bus was covered in brown slimy hand prints. I was and

Bramshott · 10/10/2011 10:19

Twas ever thus - my mother was rolling the waistband of her skirt over in the 1960s.

herbietea · 10/10/2011 10:21

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LittleWaveyLines · 10/10/2011 10:22

startail Yup you're right! As soon as we start letting the uniform battle go, the pupils find something else to rebel against! Like the requirement to attend lessons... it is true and is found every time.

squeakytoy · 10/10/2011 10:23

When I was at school in the 80's, it was the boys being handed tissues at the school gates, to wipe THEIR make-up off

ClartyScutter · 10/10/2011 10:23

i think it's time for this...

"It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them
up to date"

George Bernard Shaw

if we're being outraged, then we are getting old

soverylucky · 10/10/2011 10:24

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Bonsoir · 10/10/2011 10:24

I don't know why making children dress up like a freak show is supposed to help their learning!

WilsonFrickett · 10/10/2011 10:24

I had a short grey pencil skirt that my mother deemed too short and tight for school so I wore it underneath my hated respectable tweedy kick-pleated aberation of a garment for two whole years, whipping the long skirt off when I got to school. And, as my mother did my washing and would have chucked the pencil skirt in the bin, it didn't get washed for two years either. Nice.

I only gave in when I had to sit on the stage at an assembly and the whole school could see my knickers.

Funnily enough though, it didn't do me any harm or turn me into a sex worker

toadoftoadhall · 10/10/2011 10:25

startail I remember a teacher telling us that in a very exasperated way when some girls were campaigning to abolish hats. We thought it sexist as the boys didn't have hats and she pointed out all the other inequalities that we hadn't noticed due to our hat obsession.

bruffin · 10/10/2011 10:25

DC's school have banned long socks. It's short socks or tights. DD tends to wears her skirt about an inch above the knee with tights and it looks about right.
I still prefer shorter skirts to the long ankle length kilts that some schools wear in our area, they really do look messy dragging along the floor.

gordyslovesheep · 10/10/2011 10:25

oh come on I used the term 'sex worker' in a tongue in cheek manner and you know it

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