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Ahhh, Catholic School... yikes! Yep, the gals wore tartan skirts and the guys wore blazer, slacks and a shirt and tie. They were quite strict with the dress regs. Funny thing is that as much as the schools wanted us all to appear the same we figured out how to work the system. As you grew, blazers became smaller and more tattered and faded (elbows and cuffs terribly scruffed), shirt tail out, tie at "half staff", shoes not shined. The girls didn't have as much flexibility with their skirts, they just let them get shorter and shorter, more mini skirt than skirt. Short skirts and scruffy dress became the "in style" - the new student status. Things have not changed since the 60's. 
Gu dùbhlanach
Coinneach Mac Dhòmhnaill
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Around here, the Catholic school girls all wear Stewart....
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You had me at 'Catholic Schoolgirls.' 
JMB
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I get the one that talks!
Go, have fun, don't work at, make it fun! Kilt them, for they know not, what they wear. Where am I now?
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Never went to a Catholic school but there were LOTS of them where I grew up and I dated a LOT of Catholic schoolgirls.
I think that may be why I have this feeling that I look like a Catholic schoolgirl when I don my Dress Gordon tartan kilt. Of all my tartans that one looks TO ME like a tartan used by Catholic schoolgirls. But I don't know for sure...it just SEEMS that way to me.
Sometimes my mind attacks me.
Ol' Macdonald himself, a proud son of Skye and Cape Breton Island
Lifetime Member STA. Two time winner of Utilikiltarian of the Month.
"I'll have a kilt please, a nice hand sewn tartan, 16 ounce Strome. Oh, and a sporran on the side, with a strap please."
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While it has been said you look like many things, never have you been mistaken for a Catholic school girl!! 
Last edited by Brother Falldown; 3rd June 12 at 02:43 PM.
Reason: spelling
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Around here the local catholic schools favor a blue tartan much like the XMarks tartan. Local catholic school when I was growing up skirt was Dress Gordon. Now I think they also use a blue tartan.
Clan Mackintosh North America / Clan Chattan Association
Cormack, McIntosh, Gow, Finlayson, Farquar, Waters, Swanson, Ross, Oag, Gilbert, Munro, Turnbough,
McElroy, McCoy, Mackay, Henderson, Ivester, Castles, Copeland, MacQueen, McCumber, Matheson, Burns,
Wilson, Campbell, Bartlett, Munro - a few of the ancestral names, mainly from the North-east of Scotland
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Why do I always think of Frank Zappa, when I read Catholic (School) Girl?
 Originally Posted by Pleater
Weeelll - once I was walking along the row of shops near us and passed a young couple, she was wearing a narrow strip of denim for a skirt and a couple of handkerchieves worth of fabric for a blouse and it was losing the fight to stay closed - I was almost out of earshot when he enquired 'why doesn't your skirt move like that?' Anne the Pleater
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Frank Zappa... Now there, was a proper Bloke!!
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5th June 12, 06:44 PM
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Didn't go to a catholic school, but apparently the girl's uniform there now includes a solid navy blue kilt.
Also, as I understand it, the government policy for state schools in the UK now is that either gender may wear any item specified as uniform regardless of which gender it is specified for, even though the school dress code may specify different uniforms for each gender.
The upshot is that any boy there now could wear a kilt without breaking the rules, but I doubt if any actually do. It isn't in Scotland.
ETA2: And if they did, it would probably have to be the short length specified for the girl's kilt!
ETA: I think that there are even a few UK schools now that make both genders wear trousers, which is not barred by this government policy.
Last edited by O'Callaghan; 5th June 12 at 06:50 PM.
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