When did the Legion of Mary take over school uniform policy?

I went to a convent school in the 90's. Other girls schools in the area were convent schools, all had long skirts. The only school I can remember with a normal skirt was the comprehensive.

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

When I was going to secondary school in the mid to late 90s all the girls wore skirts above the knee. Now they are almost wearing burkas. Why did this happen?

Since you got early release.

hfallada wrote: »

"so everyone had a uniform grey colour trousers"

But thats... the entire point of having a uniform. They're uniform.

Wouldn't really be a uniform if they were just any old colour trousers.

I went to two schools a very long time ago, and in both schools we wore a uniform only on one or two special days e.g. sports day and prize giving day. I have no strong opinion one way or another, but I remember at that time a guy on radio making the case that a school uniform left everybody equal, taking pressure off parents of limited means to pay through the nose so that their kids could compete in the fashion stakes with rich kids.
I've seen the long skirts in Limerick and wondered why. Maybe girls were competing with each other, with skirts getting shorter and shorter until one day a girl turned up all ass and virtually no skirt, and somebody decided a stand had to be taken.
If you think Limerick is bad ask your granny about the apparel of the young women at Carysfort teacher training college ( third level! ) up to the sixties. Burqa indeed! It was designed to conceal every human shape, and the dominant colour was dour black. The women were known to their male colleagues as crows.
Incidentally, in the absence of a link or source the reference to the Legion of Mary in the title is silly and schoolboyish. By all means criticise all and sundry when you can substantiate, but otherwise you make yourself look like somebody barely out of school who wants to kick out at everything.

Is the long skirts thing mainly around Limerick then? I never realised they were not really worn around the rest of the country. I assumed it was an all over Ireland thing, as I went to school in the UK.

I live in Co Limerick now, and my daughter has to wear an ankle length blue 'tarten' skirt for school, teamed with brown dubarry deck shoes. I wouldn't have been seen dead in them when I was her age lol!

My uniform in the UK was a very short grey skirt, made even shorter by turning over the waistband 5or6 times.....

Funny this. I was showing my GF some pictures of me from secondary school and she commented on the length of the skirts the girls were wearing in the pics. She said they seemed very long.

She herself went to an Opus Dei-run school in Spain and even they had shorter skirts than the ones here.

I do love those uniforms they wear in Home and Away...but...err...what were we talking about?

Littlekittylou wrote: »

By the way I reiterate the creepiness of this thread.

Ah go way out of that, some girls look like they are on the way to the highland games and those skirts must cost people a small fortune. What the heck would be wrong with tailored trousers and a crested fleece or jacket instead of looking like an Enid Blyton hangover.