Why Did We Accept This Rule At High School?? / myLot

Canada

September 26, 2021 1:52pm CST

There were lots of things that I really liked about those times, but there was one thing that I really should have objected to and never thought to. It was the fact that the girls had to wear a skirt or a dress YEAR ROUND. That was it! I still remember standing out on the side of the road, in the winter, waiting for the bus. It would have been somewhere around 8 o'clock or so, in the morning and it would be freezing. Boys obviously didn't have any such rules but I don't remember even once complaining about the weather. Some girls even would have had to walk to school. It never even crossed my mind to complain and I think that we would have had a pretty good case... Do you still remember those bitterly cold days?? I still can't believe that we didn't complain!!

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Juliaacv

@Juliaacv (56199)

• Canada

26 Sep 21

I remember those bitter cold mornings, and running out to the end of our laneway when the bus was approaching, but we didn't have to wear skirts or dresses to school. I actually wore pants and often I wore ski pants over my pants, as short ski jackets were all the rage back then.

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Hate2Iron

@Hate2Iron (15724)

• Canada

27 Sep 21

I honestly don't know why we didn't wear pants and then stuff them in the locker when we got to school. !!!

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Juliaacv

@Juliaacv (56199)

• Canada

27 Sep 21

@Hate2Iron I remember wearing long pants under my dresses, but it seemed like that was a style at the time.

OceanTiara

@RebeccasFarm (91299)

• United States

26 Sep 21

I do ..we walked to school in snow that was very high but I was accustom to it.

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Hate2Iron

@Hate2Iron (15724)

• Canada

27 Sep 21

I guess we did too... and never thought about it.

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Kayla Tsukino

@kaylachan (84699)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

26 Sep 21

I've always lived in FLorida, and by the time I started school, girls could wear shorts or pants. Shorts or skirts had to be finger tip length and skirts required a pair of shorts or something underneith (which I didn't understand). But, I rarely complained about it, because I wore shorts most of the year and pants during the rare cold winter days.

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Kayla Tsukino

@kaylachan (84699)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

27 Sep 21

@Hate2Iron For the most part. Especially when I did, and it'd become socially acceptiable for girls to wear pants or shorts. Of course dress codes, I hated those. Especially my senior year, when I spent it in a wheelchair.

Hate2Iron

@Hate2Iron (15724)

• Canada

27 Sep 21

Ahhhh, growing up in Florida must have been pretty close to heaven!!

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Toni

@toniganzon (77064)

• Philippines

26 Sep 21

We must wear school uniforms from elementary to high school. Some universities even require that. That’s why i went to a university that didn’t equine a uniform. University women were required to wear pencil skirt and i just couldn’t wear that at all.

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Hate2Iron

@Hate2Iron (15724)

• Canada

27 Sep 21

When I got to university, we luckily got to wear whatever we wanted. Finally I was warm year round!

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Toni

@toniganzon (77064)

• Philippines

27 Sep 21

@Hate2Iron Most universities here requires uniform. Only a few doesn't. And those few are the top universities of this country.