Yeah, I’m younger than a lot of you, we didn’t have the hoity toity dress codes like that, though my mother has told me much the same thing about her school dress code growing up. As a Gen Xer, I guess I’d like to thank you Baby Boomers for putting your skirted foot down and demanding pants. Because I hate skirts and would’ve been miserable being forced to wear them.
As it was, I did grow up in south Texas and we weren’t allowed to shorts to school. And it was an open, outdoor high school campus, usually somewhere around 100° out but no shorts! The irony is that they eventually tore down that campus, built a new high school that was indoor and air conditioned and also rescinded the no shorts policy. I suppose I could be upset at the unfairness of it all but I look back and realize that the constant sweating was how I stayed thin.