What a load of rot. The only girls required to wear drack dresses are those who attend private schools. They attend private schools for better education, and abide by the rules. They have ample opportunity to show as much as they legally can at weekends, evenings, and for the rest of their lives after a few short years at school. School children of both sexes go to school to learn, except those unfortunates who have to attend Socialist State schools, where the dress code is as loose as the educational one.

Och aye the noo Lassie, if Lads can wearrrr kilts! Then the bonnie wee Lassies can wearrr troosers, d'ye no ken the noo? And then let the wind blow high, let the wind blow low!
Alan B.

Not enough across current rules in schools to know what's still an issue. I get the impression that girls at local state/high schools have a choice between skirts or shorts (guessing the boys don't get that choice). I see older private school boys in uniforms that involve long pants, ties and sometimes blazers. All nice additions to Queensland's warmer months.

The author appears to be strongly focussed on the gender inequity. I wonder if the difference in requirements for office attire in most offices rate the same concerns where exposed legs on males are a no-no. In the more formal office ties are a requirement for males (admittedly heels for women in some offices but my impression is that is very rare now).

Happy to see gendered rules removed, just not so thrilled when the issue is played as a male privilege thing ignoring the inconvenient parts.

R0bert

Hasbeen. Following on from your eminently sensible suggestion that the author join the British army, might I suggest a Scottish regiment like the Black Watch? Then she can wear those awful, 'regulation' dresses.
There MUST be something of greater import to whine/whinge about surely?

one day thick feminist will get into their head that boys and girls are different. Different does not have to mean better. It would be good if boys and girls wore comfortable neat clothes in line with how they are designed. With many silly women still wearing ridicously uncomfortable high heels it makes you wonder where the role models will come from.

Partly because of horrible memories of school uniforms, I sent my sons to a high school that didn't have a uniform (well, to be fair, that wasn't the only reason). Hey, you Brisbanites, this was Indooroopilly High - the only school in the state (as far as I know) that rebels against the tyranny of uniforms!

Even so, the student dress-code democracy was ruthless. Anyone who dressed to give themselves airs was immediately ostracised. Plain old sensible fashion ruled - for both boys and girls.