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

[Piggyleroux]

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?

am now chuckling at Wilson and her superhero style wardrobe change

Agree with herbietea about the skin-tight trousers. I see girls coming out of school in these nylony things, disappearing up their bum, and they look unhygienic .

At ds's school Matron keeps a special clothes and shoe box and anyone flouting uniform regulations has to go and be kitted out with some choice items. The fear of school plimsolls keeps a good fair few in line.

Also, just a thought, why is it that the girls look so bad? The boys all look all right, what's with the girls wearing short skirts/see-through blouses, caked-on eyeliner? It's a shame.

I always feel more sorry for the 'larger' girls who try so desperately to keep up with their friends in group... they wear their skirts rolled up as well, very fat legs on display. :(

me aged 15

left the house as a model pupil, walked round the corner, undid top button or two, removed tie, rolled up skirt, took bobble out of hair, applied some foundation, bit of mascara, ran to catch the bus.

arrived at school, avoided as many teachers as possible, got to morning registration, was told to go to bathroom and correct myself, did as was told, remained ghastly for the rest of the day

walked of last class, into toilets, repeated morning routine of making uniform more palatable to me and set off down the town with friends, all of which were doing the same.

'corrected' myself just before turning the corner to go home.

parents and teachers did not allow me to look like that. it's not really difficult to see what happens is it?

zukie have your girls EVER done anything wrong?

gordy

Clarty what would my superpower have been? I can only think of very unsuitable ones which would derail the thread I'm afraid

zukie are you actually Queen Victoria?

I'm with Bonsoir on this one. Likewise toadoftoadhall - it isn't schoolgirls' fault that their uniform has been fetishised.

zukie in all seriousness, that's great, however I do think that linking being a 'good' student with rolling one's skirt up or not is a touch smug. I've already stated that I did much, much worse - but I was also an excellent student. The two things aren't mutually exclusive.

Itbird - whizz down to Brentwood and see exactly the same as you'd see in Romford. Depends what school and what head.

Bonsoir,sorry, but a 6 year old in a mini skirt and knee high socks sounds awful to me, whether in Paris or London.
Dressing infants like miniture adults is not in anyway attractive and reflects badly on the parent,imo.

School uniform is great in that it's cheep, easy to wash and stops the arguments each morning about what dd is going to wear that we have on non school days.

They are in school less time than out. Plenty of time to look stylish.

Eldest dd rolled her skirt up in school but that was the schools problem. She always unrolled it before getting home :)

Youngest still at primary, I await her move on 2 years

Agree with angry beaver about 6 year olds being unsuitably dressed

I used to roll my skirt up at school. I never followed uniform guides. I always wore bright odd socks and a short skirt. I also had to buy a new school tie every couple of weeks because I kept colouring in the silver stripes. And I wore odd converse....one black one pink. I realise now that I looked like an idiot but at the time I thought I looked awesome haha.
I don't see what the problem is to be honest. They think they look cool, everyone else thinks 'what the hell are you wearing, you look ridiculous'.

I bet they are made to roll their skirts back down the minute they get into school

The sock thing (over the knee) is weird.

It reminds me of stockings.

This is the virtue of a hideous school kilt: they are very difficult to roll up.

"School" trousers look dreadful on everyone- boys and girls. They're always made of horrible material and never fit

the girls in the OP where not 'breaking school rules' either - they where OUTSIDE school :)

I broke the odd rule - I think rules are meant to be challenged sometimes. I managed to get an MA - so not completely thick - I did get excluded for organising a strike

No Bonsoir, it doesn't sound lovely at all. It would make an 11 year old look like a wannabe slapper, why would you inflict this look on your 6 year old?

OP, almost everyone has done that at some time or other. Raised the hem to outrageous heights, opened the top and loosened the hair.

Uniforms are not designed to be appealing to boys however at 15 that's that last thing I wanted to want to wear on the way to / from school - looking like some old granny!

I have a horrible feeling that this will come back to haunt me when DD starts secondary school though!

zukie you do sound insufferably smug, you know. My DS is a "model student" and I positively want him to rebel (in small ways, of course) - conforming to every rule, all the time, is not going to equip him well for the real world. Even his teachers agree - his Y3 teacher admitted she was quite glad when he went through a "silly" phase (which lasted all of 2 weeks ) even though she had to tell him off.

(oh, and like all small/medium sized boys, he looks scruffy most of the time without trying - but he and all the others can be seen hastily tucking in shirts whenever they see the head looming on the horizon )