A Memory about 7th Grade

and it's so strange..when i was young i wanted to wear frilly dresses and skirts all the time..i hated trousers lol..now i kinda compromise..but i still love dresses..lol.. funny how we all hav different tastes lol

I had to wear a skirt all the way through school from the age of 4 to 18. Things aren't as strict these days, girls are normally allowed to wear trousers as long as they are tailored and in the school colours. My daughter wears a mix of trousers or a pinafore depending on the weather but at least she is allowed to wear tights.

As a kid, I only wore dresses to church. When I got older, I only wore dresses to very important family events. (My husband was very worried I wouldn't wear a dress for our wedding, he really wanted a more traditional wedding). So I'm very fortunate I didn't go to school where there was a dress code. Private schools here actually have it written into the dress code that the girls have to be in proper uniform on the way to and from school. Fortunately it doesn't get very cold, but last month, when it snowed, I felt very sorry for them.

I remember those days. And living in Ohio was no picnic during the winter months. I was just talking about this very thing with my husband the other day. Since we had to go out for recess a bunch of us girls would squat down and huddle in a circle. Then we all took our coats off and draped them over us like a teepee. It wasn't toasty warm but it was better then letting that frigid air freeze our legs.

When I was in the fist grade we had the dress code to. All girls were not allowed to wear pants at all.All girls had to wear dresses or skirts. I had to walk to school in the winter, and it was so cold outside, my mom left me put a pair of pants under my dress. When I got to school I had to take off the pants before I got in the school. This was the dress code for girls. When I got to middle school it changed, girls were now allowed to wear jeans or whatever they want. Shorts were allowed to.I am so glad its not that way any more.

thats nice, but then a girl in pants at school dosent look cute, i think the blouse and skirt was better, i mean you can wear wollen tights or stokings as others do to keep warm,.....why would you wanna wear a mans dress?

I remember them days well before we could wear pants. Your right is sure was cold on the legs. I didnt wear a dress or skirt till spring. Thats funny you remembered that.

im glad that you still remmember your 7th grade..mine was just quiet a blurr though on some incidents...

even i got a memory.i received my first proposal when i felt happy as i understood tht i'm so beautyfull tht anyone propose me.later i rejected him by crying at tht moment

When I was in 7th grade we wore a blue skirt and white blouse.It's cool you guys can wear pants at school during those days.

yes we too had to wear skirts ,we were allowed to wear pants under our skirts if is was below 40 degrees ...wow things sure have changed .... We couldn't wear the ew low waisted bell bottoms back then either ...lol , now just look at the style of jeans everyone wears ,low cut bell bottoms ... I keep telling mt daughter if I keep my clothes long enouhj h they will be back in style ...

Hmm, I think it was 7th grade when our school let the girls wear slacks to school as well.I grew up in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia. I think most of my pants at the time were made of 100% polyester double knit.Not always the warmest.It was nice to be able find some corduroy pants for winter or wear a pair of tights under our pants .

The year after I graduated from high school in a small town they passed a rule that said girls could wear pants as long as they weren't jeans. I wore dresses/skirts to school every year of my 12 year education...Then off to college and WOW...everyone was wearing anything!!! What a change...I even remember having to get down on our knees in the hall for the girls counselor in order to prove our skirts were long enough..( they had to touch the floor when you were on your knees)...many a young lady learned the "roll up" method of skirt shortening and then would quickly "unroll" if they saw the "administration" show up!!! What a ridiculous thing.... I love skirts and dresses but couldn't live without my jeans...

Just goes to show how recent a lot of changes we take for granted are. My mum had to wear skirts to school as a kid, until my grandpa (her dad) stormed down to the school and yelled at them about it (I think because it was cold, actually). After that girls could wear pants (but not jeans, like you). I've always been rather proud of that story :)

I hated to wear dresses, I hated it when my legs would be cold. You'd think that they would allow girls to wear pants in the winter from the beginning.

I also remember when they started to let us wear pants to school. I can't remember what grade I was in, but I remember being thrilled about it. My mother resisted for a while, insisting that I wear skirts and dresses, but she eventually had to give in. She had a hard time accepting the changing times, I guess. You would never know to see her now. I can't remember the last time I saw her in anything except pants or sweats, and she's 75 years old!

I too remember that time as we were allowed to wear pants. Seemed to coincident with removing prayer from schools. I remember wearing leggings that were removed before class. Boots too when the weather was snowy. No jeans for us either until they began to allow them on Saturday. Therefore some offices have casual Saturday. happy mylot day.

I have a 7th grade memory but not about clothes. We were having student teacher conferences at night. Me and a few friends were on the committee and had been showing parents around. As it was getting later another group of students took our place. We snuck into the teachers lounge and bought cokes in the soda machine. All of a sudden the door opened and the lights went on. One of the teachers had come in and there we all were sitting around a table by the light of the vending machines drinking our cokes....busted. We all got a weeks detention after school.

LOL! I went to a strict, English private school. No trousers allowed at all, and I know that it is still the same in my school today, 30 years on! Strangely enough, it never bothered me, I always preferred sirts and dresses then, and I still do now. In fact I think I am the only woman I know that doesn't even own a pair of trousers or jeans! I just don't like them on me! So maybe my school had an effect on me after all.

Here ya go. I hear about this one all the time from my mom. I was in Kindergarten and she had gotten me all of these cute little dresses. She even made some of them and they really were pretty. After the 1st week of school my teacher sent a note home and asked my mom to please save the dresses for church because I was climbing trees in my pretty little dresses and she didn't want me to ruin them. LOL What they didn't know it was all the fault of the boys in the class they said they could climb higher than me and that wasn't about to happen. I wasn't afraid of heights back then and could shimmie a tree like a monkey. Too bad I can't do that anymore. LOL