To think that school uniform manufacturers need to make longer skirts?

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Dd lost one of her school skirts. It's a school specific design available from a local shop.

The skirt she wore at her old school was a 24 inch waist 20 inch length. She's grown a bit since then so I wanted a 22 inch length

They only make 24 waists in 18 length and 26 waists in 18 or 20 length. Except they only had 18 length in stock so they would have to put in a special order

I ordered first week of Jan, it finally came in at Easter.

It's still way too short but I can't subject poor dd to wearing a 30 inch waist skirt.

Granted the school haven't said anything to any if the girls but the regulations state knee length.

The school ds will be going to the girls skirts are sold directly via the manufacturers website there is a 48 hr turnaround & they are available in a variety of lengths so it can be done.

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The school ds will be going to the girls skirts are sold directly via the manufacturers website there is a 48 hr turnaround & they are available in a variety of lengths so it can be done."

I had visions of the OP sending her son to school in a skirt.

Lol.

Think he might object to that! Mind you I'm anticipating problems with him as at 10 years old he still wears age 6 clothes. He's got a year to grow into the high schools smallest size uniform (it's a matching suit so can't buy trousers from elsewhere for him). Their smallest size will bury him.

Long skirts were the fashion for school uniform, when I was at school, in the 80s. We wore our sweaters big and baggy, and long, chunky, knee high socks, which we pushed down to our ankles.

However, when I recently had to go and buy new skirts for DD1 (uniform for yr 10 and 11 is different to years 7 - 9 FFS!) I just asked for the shortest possible length. What's the point in getting knee length? She'd only roll it up, and it looks better not rolled up.

My DD won't wear a skirt that doesn't skim her arse with but an inch for modesty. In midddle school she wore trousers and trainers only, and had a short back and sides hair cut so, where this has come from, only the puberty monster knows.

Buy the bigger/longer size and get them taken in. Problem solved ( so says the mother of a skinny Minnie Y7 whose school uniform supplier stocks size 6 as the smallest size. These went over her head and shoulders and fell to the ground!) I got her skirts taken in - they're are still a bit too big unfortunately so she usually comes home with the spilt up the front - elegant she ain't!!!

Primary I can see your problem. OP the desire for short skirts doesn't kick in until mid Y6.

Personally I can't see why the girls can't wear any skirt that doesn't actually show their knickers.

Same for boys, no trousers that deliberately show their underpants.

Friend of mine got a letter from school saying her daughter's skirt was too short and must be replaced. She replied "Dear Headmaster, I'm glad you agree with me that A's skirt is too short as I'm sure you will have more success in getting the school shop and it's suppliers to provide longer ones than I have had". He did!

Piscovorous, I'm prepared to do the same if we get a letter - my 12 year old dd is 5'10 and still growing, and the school skirts are getting too short for her.
I'm boggling at a child who at 5' is tall for the year though! My dd isn't even the tallest in her year.

Sorry, reawakening the zombie...

DD is about 5'2" and too skinny for the length of skirt that reaches enough to her knees, is there somewhere we can probably buy skirts that will fit a 22" waist but still come to < 5cm above Dd's knees? I can sew well enough to shorten if required. I don't want to spend hours trawling thru wrong shops.

TIA.

yeolde just get one that fits length wise and take the waist in. I've been getting someone who can sew doing it myself for years.

Ooh, that's a good idea but I'd definitely have to pay for a waist adjustment, too.

I should get adjustable waist, drop must be 47+ cm we reckon.

When they say "5 cm above the knee", where does "above the knee" start, does anyone know? DD & I can't figure it out!!

Adjustable waists might do ok at that height, dd is 5'6 and all legs, but is the same width as any prepuberty skinny 11yr old, so till she sees fit to get some hips, over the last few years by the time you drag in the waist it looks atrocious.
You might not have to pay if your sewing is ok, depending on style if it's non adjustable, it's just the case of unpicking vertical hems and edge of waistbands, chopping some off, and sewing back up.

Fortunately my DDs' school allows any skirt, as long as it's plain black (no designs or patterns in the weave either) and knee length (they get credit card width leeway to allow for growth and don't mess about in the last term). So we just buy plain work skirts in small adult sizes for DD, who is 12, 5'5'' and very slender. Turns out cheaper than 'school' skirts too, since you can buy H&M basics.

I'll look in H&M, maybe. The skirts aren't dear, just all for people with bigger waists. Length is way above credit card width ( how much depends where top of the knee is anatomically, we don't know).

Above the knee - for the school I went to at least - was measured from mid-knee (kneeling on the floor was the easiest way to measure).

Kneel on floor.
Measure 5 cm (or however far) upwards
Draw thick marker pen line on leg
You have a visual line for how long your unrolled skirt needs to be.

mmmm... I'm still quite confused. Picture of my ugly knee. Each line is one inch (2.5 cm) apart & line 1 goes thru the most point bit of my knee. Line 2 is physiological top of my hard kneecap. Line 3 is what I think of as top edge of my knee. So should skirt reach to line 4 or line 5?

(ps: 2 & 3 backwards because I first wrote them upside down.)

im still actually bemused by the idea all girls want short skirts and that is why they make them that short because all the girls i see want longer skirts and my dd wears trousers winter and summer no matter how hot because she hates flashing her knickers

At DD's school the uniform policy says knee length. However all the girls seem to have re written the policy.

I used to have all my skirts taken in and up at the tailors as had the same issues. Could you not order longer length and have it taken in/up

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