Why do school uniforms consists of shorts and not trousers?

Now trousers have been dropped from the school uniform, boys at Emmanuel Christian School have to wear shorts in winter. Note, these are generic school shorts, not necessarily the ones worn at Emmanuel. read more

Nonetheless, while I question both the practical and stylistic merits of trousers and shorts, I will defend to the death the right of other women to make their own sartorial choices. For this reason I am broadly in favour of Trousers for All, a UK-wide group campaigning to give girls the option of wearing trousers as part of their school uniform. read more