Long School skirts for secondary girls

[Jojoes]

Can anyone help?
I'm searching for a knee length black school skirt for my tall daughter.
New rules mean that the skirt cannot be stretchy or contain lycra.
I know that I can't be the only one that needs this but I can only find skirts that are 22 cm tall.
Any one got any suggestions.
TIA

Zara basics?

Next do a pleated skirt that can be purchased in "long"

Doesn't the school have a "preferred" stockist who can provide a suitable length skirt? My DC's school insist on girls having a skirt that reaches the knee and only has one stockist. The clothes are branded so if they wear skirts from anywhere else and are checked, they will be told to get one from the preferred stockist. Seems sensible to me; the school want to enforce a rule, they provide the means to do it.

M&S do longer length skirts too.

Nooooo. toyah that just bit be suggested. I've supplier branded crap is expensive and one order in I've already received an "out of stock" email

Bad bad idea.

Much better to be able to try a a range from various shops to find one suitable .

Must not be

Stuoid phone

Toyah that didn't work for us. The school said skirts should reach the knees. We went to the official school supplier but they sold skirts by waist measurement. The skirts that fitted her around the waist were way above her knees and the ones that were long enough were about six inches too big on the waist.

For the record our DD is dead normal build, average height and slim without being skinny.

Goodness knows who they were making the skirts for. Or if they had spoken to the school at all.

This school uniform stockist does a range of lengths including 24 inch. www.theschoolwearcompany.co.uk/for-girls/skirts/trutex-girls-twin-kick-pleat-skirt-in-black-graphite-and-navy-waists-22in-to-40in.html

Aren’t her friends in the same position? Where are they shopping!

In our experience high street skirts in long length are not knee length and dd isn't tall. (Luckily her school doesn't require knee length.) School uniform stockists tend to stock more of a range of lengths and waist sizes than high street shops

Usually pencil skirts that are part of a woman's suit are knee length. M&S, Next, Sainsbury's, Asda, Primark, Matalan I expect?

tuclothing.sainsburys.co.uk/p/Black-Pencil-Skirt/132800958-Black

www.matalan.co.uk/product/detail/s2691578_c101/button-pencil-skirt-black

Thanks for all of your suggestions. I'll check them all out.

The school do have a recommended stockist, but their longest skirt is nowhere near my daughters knees. She has OCD and anxiety so can't bear the thought of breaking the rules. She is tall, but there must be others in the same position - we've got three more years of secondary!

She's had pencil skirts up until now, but the no Lycra policy begins in September and everything is spotted seemed to be stretchy.

Thanks again.

M&S do extra long online, and it says the extra long is 28". Or if she's a womens size 6 or taller, then this would work

To be honest, I suspect they just mean 'mustn't be body-hugging' rather than that they are going to have a trial tweak of every skirt to see if it stretches.

Quite a few of our local schools now stock their own skirt, my DD's secondary have a skirt with three different lengths (she's quite tall too) to meet their rules on length.

I think I would check with the school whether DC actually wear skirts this length... First thing my DD did was alter her skirt to make it "short like the others".....

Just take a peak at the year above or ask a mum or two..... you want her to fit in....

It'll depend on the school but ours was hopeless about it and by year 11 they were wearing skirts they had work in 7 and 8 which were SERIOUSLY short!

How well does that work? DD's school tried stocking one style of school trousers, but they'd forgotten to take account of different waist-to-hip ratios, so most girls had a choice of 'fits the hips, falls off the waist' or 'fits the waist, room for two at the hips'. After a term of baggy clown trousers, they quietly changed the policy to 'trousers from our stockist, or closely similar style'.

Maybe there's more leeway for skirts?

Can't you try the recommended uniform shops for another school?

Thanks. She's already there. The school is becoming part of an existing academy and to be honest although they are very strict she is much stricter.

Is she in women’s sizes? Debenhams may have something?

This is nice www.riverisland.com/p/black-peplum-hem-pencil-skirt-719696

Thanks all. Very much appreciated. One much happier daughter.

Banner and trutex do a variety of lengths in each waist size?

We tend to buy them so they sit on the hips which makes them longer too.