To think it's really, really distasteful to dress up as a 'sexy schoolgirl'?

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It's not that I'm a prude or anything. I've done it myself in my twenties several times (for a party, not ahem private titillation)

It's just lately since I've had my own child, and with so much public awareness of paedophilia and its apparent standing as THE crime people hate most, it just seems to grate on me that people can think it's still ok to sexualise what is essentially a child's outfit.

I suppose what I'm trying to say (but not very well) is that it's a bit like dressing as a Nazi for a party. It's not funny because of all the bad connotations & just not the 'done' thing.( but not quite the same, IYSWIM)

I am probably BU, but it just makes me feel a bit 'eew!'

The 'sexy schoolgirl' costume is unlikely to be grey high-waist trousers/knee length pleated skirt, with a shirt buttoned to the neck, v- neck jumper, neatly tied tie & blazer, though.

It's mostly tiny skirt, too-small or too fitted blouse, tie at half- mast & fishnets or emo socks. Which is exactly how schoolgirls have always customised their uniforms in order to signal rebelliousness & burgeoning sexuality.

I think a LOT of perfectly respectable blokes have accordingly got a circuit in their brains which was hardwired at about 14 - the girl in the 'rebel' version of the uniform is the one who'll sneak behind the bike shed with you for a fag & a grope.

& getting their dws/dps to dress up in similar gear is a lot about escapism - if you're a 16 year old scholboy/girl then you aren't worrying about your job/family/mortgage.

Agree with other posters who've pointed out that genuine paedophiles would be unlikely to get a charge out of adults in school uniform! I'm more interested in why Angus Young doesn't get more attention - why do women (on the whole) find the schoolboy look uninteresting or downright weird?

I think ravenAK has it spot-on. And as someone else pointed out further up, there are crossovers with punk sensibility as well - some "naughty schoolgirl" costumes seem to incorporate bandolier-belts and studded belts and tartan skirts and so on, very much like the kind of thing people re-interpreting the fashions of 1977 through the lens of 2009 would appropriate.

Does any other grown man dress in schoolboy uniform in the course of his job other than Angus Young? He's a perfectly valid example, but there must be others... I have a vague memory of Martin Jarvis doing so at some point for "Just William". But I could be wrong.

Er, Webdude, Viz may be 'trash' in your opinion, but it isn't a magazine that features pictures of naked girls. It's a comic full of swearing and fart jokes and not exactly relevant to this discussion.

Sorry, it was the only mag I could name at the time... As you might guess, I'm not "into" lads' mags (hmmm, FHM Loaded nuts zoo perhaps?)

I really don't remember how long ago it was since I looked at shelves of magazines (when PC mags went past the three pound mark, I switched to mail order (and later stopped buying them altogether, as most articles can be read for free online) so stopped visiting WHS, don't go down the aisle in the bigger supermarkets, and the two local newsagents (one a sub-Post Office) have closed in the past 18 months, not that I was ever a regular visitor as I don't touch newspapers, don't smoke, and don't spend cash on the lottery, ergo no need to visit newsagents.

Perhaps the whole "sexy schoolgirl" cliche came about because 6th formers were (in the '40s/'50s) essentially grown women who, had they failed to get into the 6th form, would have been working in paid employment dressed like adults.

Yet as they were still at school they were forced to dress up like children, which was absurd, and inappropriate.

This situtation no longer occurs as 6th formers now get to wear their own clothes, or a more relaxed version of school uniform to reflect the young adults - rather than children - that they are.

What I am trying to say is that the dressing up of "grown women as schoolgirls" is not the way things have changed, it is the way things actually were and thank goodness it has changed.

The sexy schoolgirl thing comes about because you are a school girl/boy during the time you first discover what is in your pants. I'm sure that most people fantasise about their first love, even if they are happily married. It's merely accessorising that fantasy.

But if that was totally the case MP, wouldn't everyone fantasise about their own school uniform?

It is the "old fashioned" cliched school uniform we are talking about here, that 18 year olds used to have to wear.

As an aside I always feel faintly uncomfortable when shopping for school uniform when I see pinafores and those gingham dresses in size "Age 13-14," as a pinafore does strike me as child's clothing and not something you would put a 14 year old in.

well no, some people fantasise about pissing in the street, everyone is turned on by different things

Not read whole thread but think YABU.

went to a 30th birthday party, most of the adult women were dressed as schoolgirls, i was in shock.apparently is not considered fancy dress, its a look.

i went out dressed as a st trinians for my 30th and for my hen night, i am a teacher !