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Showing Original Post only (View all)Can you remember a rule from grade school/High School that made no sense to you now? Mine--girls were forbidden to wear [View all]
slacks. What about you?
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Can you remember a rule from grade school/High School that made no sense to you now? Mine--girls were forbidden to wear [View all]
debm55
May 4
OP
thank you biophile. I hated walking to school in the winter without slacks and sitting on the bus in mini skirts.
debm55
May 4
#14
Same here. My sister was 5 years behind me in school and was able to wear pants
yellowdogintexas
May 4
#34
I graduated in 1965..never allowed to wear blue jeans, slacks or whatever we called them back then.
Deuxcents
May 4
#2
I was just going to put the length of boys hair. and skirts being measured above the girls knee. Thank you
debm55
May 4
#18
Jr high, girls couldn't wear miniskirts, so three girls wore long granny skirts in protest and were expelled.
dem4decades
May 4
#5
Makes no sense. I would were granny skirts in the winter. But we were never expelled for it.
debm55
May 4
#19
BOSSHOG, I went to Catholic school too ---grades 1-8, I remember the altar boys and the choir. My biggest problem was
debm55
May 4
#20
No candy either. At 12 the noon bells rang and we all had to stop and with folded hands face the Church and pray the
debm55
May 4
#24
HAHAHAHAHAHAh. Yes, the measuring of the skirts. And the pants under the dress or skirt.
debm55
May 4
#25
I agree with you Skittles. I was a slacks person. If you wore a dress or skirt, a slip was required and panty hose.
debm55
May 4
#30
I started with a private firm in 2003 that would not allow women wearing bare legs or open toed shoes.
Nanuke
May 4
#11
A school I taught in had the rule of no bare legs, no sandals for the students and teachers.
debm55
May 4
#27
I remember a really creepy teacher who would sit on her desk and cross her legs so she could be ogled at by the boys.
efhmc
May 5
#44
My sister, an honor student, was sent home from school for wearing colottes in the mid sixties.
mobeau69
May 4
#16
Wow you are so right surrealAmerican. Day after Day we made the pledge. As a student in a Catholic Grade School. We made
debm55
May 4
#23
Graduated in '65. The flat top was in fashion.The biggest scandal was the majorettes/twirlers came up with new outfits.
surfered
May 4
#28
We had moved from a suburb of Detroit to Nashville in my junior year of high school
MIButterfly
May 5
#45
Girls could not wear anything other than dresses or skirts, at least long enough to touch floor when kneeling
zeusdogmom
May 5
#61
Girls were finally allowed to wear pants in 5th grade. I hated wearing dresses.
Clouds Passing
May 5
#66