All of these excuses about policing the length of school skirts say nothing about policing trouser styles. When I was still working the boys' uniform was strictly monitored, school trousers, not cargo pants etc, the girls were wearing spray-on 'trousers', attempts to impose the same regulation was deemed 'sexist' by the band of ism people. As ever the female of the species got away with murder, female staff dressed as they wished, more night-club or beach in some instances, the men had to wear suit/jacket, shirt and tie, even in hot summers.