AIBU to think the new sixth form outfit looks like something from "The Handmaid'sTale"

[joanjett]

I am surprised the school did not add a cloak and a "chastity bonnet"

No rolling that skirt!

I quite like it! But not sure a long skirt is terribly practical tbh.

I’d refuse to go to school.

Can you image!! 😂😂😂

Surely no teenage girl will wear that!

It's stylish and unrollable but may result in sixth formers refusing to go to school.

That might be the option for Muslim girls? Our school had different versions for different cultural choices.

I adore these uniforms....

https://www.christs-hospital.org.uk/about-christs-hospital/school-life/photo-gallery/

But no, the uniform in the OP- quite late Edwardian and I like it aesthetically, but imagine trying to go up and down stairs. And how heavy it would be.

It reminds me of The Worst Witch!

Looks like a wrap over too, a bit of a breeze and she'll show her knickers and then take off.
It's rather Mary Poppins isn't it?

Presumably there is a trouser option though if you don't like the skirt. If you're in an area with large populations who dress modestly for religious reasons (orthodox Jews, Muslims) I can see why this was brought in.

I prefer this than the 6form option down the road- never seen skirts so short I don’t know how they dare walk 🤣

Muslims just wear trousers here for school

I don’t immediately think ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. It almost has an Edwardian kind of look. It seems rather impractical and performatively modest.

The poor mannequin posing it's heart out to try and cheer it up...

Just looks like a long skirt to me 🤔my 6th form also had the choice of knee length or ankle length skirts (obviously we all wore them thigh length 😂)

I doubt that there is a trousers option to this outdated excuse for a school uniform.
It definitely gave me handmaid vibes.

Do they get the option of trousers? There’s no way my daughter would wear that skirt in a million years.

I remember my sixth form days where we all wore our own clothes.

When I was in sixth form we petitioned the head to be allowed to wear trousers and/or ankle length skirts (prob weren’t thinking quite this!), male head refused (even female teachers weren’t permitted to wear trousers!).

I think it looks fine, but I hope there's a trouser option - if not, then I'd be annoyed.

That must be one option from several that would be acceptable. I think it's very old-fashioned rather than overtly oppressive, so I'm not getting Handmaid's Tale vibes from it - I'm imagining girls riding their bikes side-saddle 😄

Looks like something a suffragette would have worn.

Reminds me of pictures of women in men's jobs in WW!. Railway booking clerk or similar. They would have had 2 or 3 buttons I think.

Sorry, why is long skirt Handmaid's tales stuff? I like long skirts/dresses😳 it could be bit more stylish yeah... I am assuming it's one of few options

It’s weird some sixth forms insist on uniform when colleges don’t. Surely a horrible uniform like that will drive girls out of the sixth form and into the freedom of college.