I Love School Girl Pleated Skirts

@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.