Skorts - Unisex or Girls Only

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Skorts for kids - some suppliers (like Canterbury) say they are unisex - other suppliers (like Slazenger) say that they are exclusively for girls. Any opinions on this? I say they should be unisex.

Definitely girls.

Girls

there are no heterosexual boys wearing skorts.

I think a skort should be unisex if skirts are unisex, given they are basically the same thing.

Well they are for girls aren't they? But nothing stopping boys wearing them if they want to.

Are there boys who want to wear skorts? Obviously they can. But that doesn’t make it a unisex item.

They are skirts with a bit in the middle to make it easier for girls to be active without showing their underwear. Lets face it, skirts are a bit of a silly design. Therefore they are for the same people as skirts are. Yes males can and do wear skirts, but its not the conventional norm. Whether that matters to an individual boy is up to them, but they're certainly not marketed at boys. And why would a boy bother wearing an essentially compromised design fixed somewhat by the addition of shorts, when he could just wear some shorts? Unless he was making a point of course or pretending he was a girl.

If skirts are feminine then so are skorts a skirt / shorts combo.
Up there with collottes, no manly man is picking them up in Burtons.

Does it matter? I can't imagine many boys want to wear them, and if they do, why not?

Clothes are for anyone and all that, but a boy in a skort is likely to get the sort of teasing that no parent wants for their child.

There are two types of skorts- one which is a skirt with hidden shorts built on - or the other type which looks like shorts at the back and a skirt at the front.

No clothing imo are for boys or girls other than maybe bras and jock straps. Why the restraint on garments unless they have a biological purpose attached?

My kids school has a "unisex" uniform policy, so technically the boys could chose to wrsr the skirt or the PE skort.

It has never happened. Same as technically the girls can wear grey knee length shorts instead of trousers or skirt.. but you cant buy them anywhere!

You can’t put a boy in a skort ffs

Clothes are clothes. They aren’t gendered.

Girls

Traditionaly girls but up to kid and parent. Like all clothes.

They’re for boys just as much as skirts are…..

Sporty skorts are quite tight so I'd imagine they're either for girls only or have a baggy bit at the front to accommodate a cock and balls and therefore won't look right on a girl. So no not unisex.

There is a boy who was in my DS year at primary school whose mother thought he was a girl. I wasn't sure if they had given up on this notion when he left primary but when I found a request from this mum in a school uniform group for a skort I knew they hadn't.

Slazenger is a British company and Canterbury is based in New Zealand. IYKYK.

I have a year 5 boy, neither he or any of his friends would be seen dead in a skort.

Def girls. Personally I love a skort. I like being shorts but feel fat and frumpy where skort is more slimming

They are for anyone who wants to wear them. This is usually girls though.

Such a silly question and no need to start a thread on it.

Interesting. Thanks for the responses. This was something mentioned at a primary school where I volunteer and the answers were evenly divided as here. What persuade me was the school dress options:

Girls Options:
Girls can wear skirts.
Girls can wear pinafores.
Girls can wear summer dresses.
Girls can wear trousers/shorts

Boys Options:
There are no options. Boys wear trousers/shorts.

Is that equality? Skorts is a great compromise, surely?