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Skirts are generally blue or black but may be other colours as well, depending on the school. Some schools also have alternative uniforms that students of both sexes wear every other day. These often consist of a coloured shirt and slacks. High school girls must wear black or blue long skirts. High school boys wear long black or blue trousers.
Skirts of thin or clingy fabrics are often worn with slips to make the material of the skirt drape better and for modesty. In modern times, skirts are very commonly worn by women and girls. Some exceptions include the izaar, worn by many Muslim cultures, and the kilt, a traditional men's garment in Scotland, Ireland, and sometimes England.
One of the earliest depictions of the kilt is this German print showing Highlanders around 1630. A kilt (Scottish Gaelic: fèileadh [ˈfeːləɣ]) [1] is a garment resembling a wrap-around knee-length skirt, made of twill-woven worsted wool with heavy pleats at the sides and back and traditionally a tartan pattern.
"In this heat it is impractical and really uncomfortable to wear trousers - we are not boys and we want to wear skirts." Janet Thomson, 40, who has two daughters at the school, explained why the ...
A school uniform is a uniform worn by students primarily for a school or otherwise an educational institution. [1] They are common in primary and secondary schools in various countries and are generally widespread in Africa, Asia, Oceania, and much of the Americas, but are not common in the United States, Canada, and most countries in continental Europe.
More than 100 boys at a Canadian high school donned plaid skirts to protest toxic masculinity and dress code double standards, as part of a movement that’s sweeping schools in Montreal. The ...
The Supreme Court on Monday left in place an appellate ruling barring a North Carolina public charter school from requiring girls to wear skirts to school. The justices declined without comment to ...
Most UK schools allow girls to wear trousers, but many girls still wear skirts in primary and secondary schools, even where the choice of trousers is given. In the late 20th and early 21st century, many schools began changing their uniform rules to allow trousers for girls amidst opposition to skirts-only policies. [68]