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"

Schools need to kill skirts off and just tell everyone to wear trousers- so much more practical.

Rugby School have had these long skirts for girls forever. They all seem to wear them quite happily.

I personally quite like long trousers being the standard for all students…
But the long skirt might be important for students with certain religious requirements (or preferences).

The OP is wrong.

They ask the pupils from time to time if they want to change the uniform and they overwhelmingly want to keep it - they love it.

Get better at reading your child's school website - there is a trouser option for girls.

Uniforms belong in armies, not on children.

I imagine if @joanjett had kids at Clifton college she would at least have noticed that it is co ed!

They ask the pupils.... In the same way they ask us what party we want in power. Don't be ridiculous! It is not THEY who ask the pupils, it is the 72% to 78% of pupils who ask, no, not ask, beg for financial assistance.

To be honest i quite like it as 16 year old starting to go Gothic/retro Edwardian me opted for a similar look in 6th form when we had a choice of skirt. It was the late 80s so kind of fashionable.

They can wear trousers the skirt is an alternative
https://issuu.com/cliftoncollegeuk/docs/clifton_college_uniform_list_upper-26?fr=sOWU1ZTkxNjc4MTY

I like it but I love a long skirt and fitted blazer 🤷‍♀️

I've been critical of the OP and she is quite stunningly wrong about the uniform but she hasn't claimed that it's a girls' school as far as I can see.

I think that looks lovely! I wear long skirts a lot and I’d definitely wear this 😅

I love it but the blazer needs to be cut differently to really set it off.

Not quite sure what your point is? The school is very generous with its bursary support but once you get there you get the same anonymous vote on whether or not to change the uniform as those paying full fees.

You may have missed my earlier post that my DD went there - she and all her friends love their uniforms.

Oh God, that is fucking hideous. Which school is it? Why do they need a uniform in sixth form?

When my school had a sixth form in the early 1990s the dress code was to wear black and white, which I think was chosen by the sixth formers themselves.

My sixth form college which got very good results had very little in the way of dress code, let alone uniform. I think it was something like no very short clothing, no ripped jeans (that one did get pushed against slightly), no cropped tops.

How did we get back to the Edwardian era? I mean if girls want to dress in long skirts, that's a nice look and one I certainly embraced in 1992 at sixth form. But not in shitty Teflon uniform fabric with matching blazer and a man's shirt and tie. Such default male shite imposed on girls, and even men hardly wear ties for work these days.

Didn’t know there was a trouser option. Thought OP said there wasn’t. And my comment still stand for short legged girls who prefer skirts!

This is it. Some girls like it! Nobody is listening. The 16y old I know is a non-religious extrovert, swimming and tennis-loving confident young woman. She lives in tracksuit bottoms usually. She chose the long skirt over the trousers! She likes the look and the air wafting under her skirt. Not all girls hate this!

I quite like it, but I think the top half suggests a lack of imagination.

Why not go the whole hog and mandate an anachronistic hat and cloak?

Rugby School has long skirts too - very odd. Always looks to me like they are once again changing the girls so the boys don't have to behave like decent humans.

I agree it's a ridiculous uniform but the normal uniform is a trouser suit. They can choose to wear that skirt as an alternative.
OP was factually wrong in insisting that the skirt was the only option and was extremely rude to a poster who pointed this out (post has been deleted).

Long skirts seem to be very popular at the local school even though short skirts and trousers are also an option.

The main problem with the uniform pictured is the grim colour choice and the poor cut of the blazer! A bit of colour would help.

If the girls are unhappy wearing it I'm sure a spoonful of sugar will sort them out.

You’re right, I don’t know why I thought she’d said that! Maybe another poster speculated that it was a religious school for girls and I thought op had said that.