now they will wear really tight jeans and crop tops. Sounds good to me!

Several decades ago, girls were required to wear a dress or a skirt to school and would have been sent home if they wore pants.

(5 years younger) was wearing jeans to school. We had to wear skirts; most of us wore hose or tights (occasionally knee sox)

I graduated in 1966 and she finished in 1971.

When I was in elementary school, we wore dresses on even the coldest days. We were allowed to wear long pants only if they were under our skirts.

My freshman year of college, the women had won the right to wear jeans in the cafeteria on weekends. The men had to wear ties to Sunday dinner so we could wear our jeans.

No kilts allowed!

For real though. What the fuck

...school in the late 1960s. No pants allowed for girls. No one drove to school in those days, and waiting for the bus in deep winter with the harsh winds blowing up your skirt/dress, was no fun. I would have been delighted to have pants required.

That said, I do certainly see the misogynistic hypocrisy here.

When my late mother was a school nurse in a junior high way back in the late 60s, the vice principle used to grumble about how tight some of the trouble maker boys wore their pants. (A tailor would NOT have had to ask, "Which side do you dress to, sir?) He once commented to my mom, with reference to high temperatures decreasing sperm counts, "Well, maybe they won't be able to reproduce." She got a good chuckle out of that.

And the winters were really cold there, too! Not to mention, my high school had a huge campus and we had to change classes from building to building in the winter in deep snow!

Seems to me that smacks of grooming girls to become trans boys.

They will next declare the approved length and styles of haircuts, shoe styles and personal book bags.

I find it rather ironic just how prescient Devo was.

was in jr. high in the 70’s we finally were allowed to wear pants or jeans and were thrilled!!! O more hosiery and dresses. Have rarely worn a dress since then. Wow do I feel old.

in the clothing of young students.

I'm starting to think the criticism I often hear and read about the wardrobe's of others may be nothing more than a cover-story to justify their own leering.