I Love School Girl Pleated Skirts

@MaryJanine home from school [image]

@MrsPeterEvans Nice only problem with tights ladder so easily . I was told the way to stop ladders was a dab of nail varnish stopped it going any further .

@MrsPeterEvans Not me. If I wore pantyhose back then (which I did) I never had them in this condition - mine lasted for weeks at a time. If they developed runs, I wore slacks over them.

@SW-User That's nice to know - that there are still places, I mean. Indiana used to have it for a long time (I don't know if they still do) and Ohio and Pennsylvania gradually weeded it out of fashion. I think the Ohio ban happened after a girl who got paddled had a resultant blood blister that lasted for months afterward - and she had only been hit once.

@MaryJanine Sorry, I might have said wrong, not allowed here.....

@SW-User No need to apologize. I can still hear that hated eighth grade teacher, to this day, telling each girl as they passed her, "You're not on the beach!" Well, she was the same one who hit the boys in the back of their heads if they didn't remove their hats before entering the hall. She usually managed to knock the hats off, landing on the floor. I always thought that was a dumb rule when it was snowing and cold outside.

@samueltyler2 Not the ones I got from my sister! Any shorter and I would have been wearing them for a belt!

@MaryJanine was she a bit of an exhibitionist?

@samueltyler2 No. My sister was petite and very pretty. When she wore these outfits, she was 19 and 20 - and I was 13 and 14 - a bit both taller and heavier than she was. Any short skirts she passed to me were a perfect (but decent)size on me. She DID have one very short skirt which she wore to work under her Walgreens jacket. it was almost like a strip of velvet and disappeared under said jacket. When she dropped my nephew off for the day, my dad made a teasing reference to "put some clothes on before a policeman catches you."

I only saw that skirt once, and never again, because I am willing to bet that someone (her boss or a customer) registered a complaint about the shortness of her hemline.

@CathyUK When I was in the junior high years (late 1960's) was when the miniskirts really came into their own. These were from three to six inches above the knees. Most of the girls wore then in fashion - and the eighth grade teacher, who was the assistant principal, had two cows and a calf.

The upshot of the whole thing was - we wasted an entire school day when she and the other eighth grade teacher called every girl on the assembly hall stage to measure every girl's skirt from hem to knee. Anybody who had hers higher than three got weeded out. (Three girls, and I was one, passed the test.) When she had done that, she told them they were suspended until they could come back in a dress or skirt with a decent length.

The next morning, irate parents, with their daughters in tow, showed up and, in so many words, told the teacher to "mind your own damn business." They didn't see anything wrong with what they had on and the stores didn't sell anything else, or if they did, there was no material to let down sufficiently!

That ended that.

@MaryJanine Did you wear yours higher after that? Yes

@SW-User No. I wasn't allowed to at home and my mother wouldn't allow it - she sent me to school in my sister's old out-of-style skirts. Two other girls in my class were in the same situation. At least in eighth grade. When I became a high school freshman, my sister, who was married and wore the short skirts (and looked great in them) passed her abbreviated dresses to me. They fit me just fine and I wore them to school without a word being said.

@BizSuitStacy I would love to have a pleated, plaid uniform skirt in my wardrobe, and an all white blouse! Brings back a lot of fantasies!

@Katiatavrovich you have the legs to pull it off!

@Katiatavrovich I feel so much like a girl when I wear dresses and skirts - but NOTHING beats pants in the wintertime!

@MaryJanine yes you're right 👍

@DaddyMentor The lady on the corner had five daughters in Catholic uniforms at one time. I never saw anything above anklets-with-ruffles socks.

@bill266 My parents went to school when paddlings were permitted. Before they were married (about 1950) they were no longer allowed in public schools and neither my sister nor me underwent that trauma. My mom and dad wouldn't allow it in any case, and if it had happened, they would have taken the offending teacher to court and sued the school.

@wazoo9191 Oh, it did...the boys slavered; the girls flirted; and the teachers thought we were showing more meat than a butchers' window, to quote Buddy Ebsen on the Beverly Hillbillies.

@Mickwnes Not when it's bitter cold, snowy, or icy. Then I live in slacks.