Catholic School girls - Black Watch skirts

[Blupiper]

You had me at 'Catholic Schoolgirls.'

JMB

[morrison]

I get the one that talks!

[madmacs]

Its sad that boys are unable to wear kilts to school as part of the uniform. All through school I would have prefered the kilt over pants.

You just picked the wrong school...

Boys at the following nine boarding schools were required to wear the kilt. Dollar Academy: Boarders were required to wear the kilt on Sundays for church and on school social occasions such as dances and parties. Fettes and Glenalmond: On formal occasions boys wore the kilt with a waistcoat and jacket of the registered college tweed. The kilt could be of any personal tartan but all boys in the College are entitled, if they wish, to wear the Hunting Murray tartan. Kiel: Boys wore a white shirt, school tie, school blazer and kilt as the number 1 uniform. It is worn on Sundays and for special occasions as well as for outings. Loretto: Sunday garb is white shirt and tie, lovat tweed jacket and the kilt. Merchiston Castle: The kilt was worn on Sundays and on formal occasions. Rannoch: On Sundays and special occasions boys dressed is the kilt and Rannoch Green jacket. The dress list for Formal Wear includes, 1 kilt (tartan of own choice), 1 kilt jacket, 1 sporran, 2 pairs of school stockings (Rannoch Green), 2 white shirts, 1 school tie, and 1 pair of black lacing shoes. Strathallan: Boarders were required to wear the kilt on Sundays for church and on school social occasions such as dances and parties. Queen Victoria School Dunblane: The traditional ceremonial uniform of glengarry, scarlet tunic and kilt is worn for church and special occasions. In 1966 walking out dress was changed from battledress to highland tweed jacket, pullover and kilt. Highland dancing is still part of the curriculum.

The kilt was optional at: Edinburgh Academy: Optional formal dress was kilt with appropriate tweed jacket, plain lovat coloured stockings, lacing black shoes, white shirt and Academy tie. A plain grey V-neck pullover and Glengarry or Balmoral hat are further options.

The following three schools did not wear the kilt: Fort Augustus Abbey, Gordonstoun, and Morrison's Academy in Crieff. This was the situation in 1988. HBC has seen earlier photographs from Goronstoun, for example, with all the boys turned out in kilts.

Preparatory schools

The following eight preparatory schools wore the kilt: Ardvreck, and Crawfordton House: The kilt outfit was worn on Sundays and for outings. Blairmore, and Cargilfield: On formal occasions boys wore kilts. Lathallan: Children wear the kilt for church on Sundays and for all other important school events. The tartan is of their own choice. Loretto Preparatory: The kilt is formal dress on Sundays and special occasions except in the summer term when red blazers and white shorts are worn. New Park: On formal occasions boys wear kilts. Queen Victoria (Preparatory School): See above.

The kilt is optional in the following three schools: Clifton Hall. On Sundays in the Autumn and Spring terms most boys wear the kilt. Edinburgh Academy and Fettes: The kilt with tweed jacket may be worn for special occasions by boys in the prep school section of these senior schools. Aberdour Preparatory School: This prep school is not Scottish, but located at Banstead, Surrey. Until 1987, the headmaster allowed any Scottish boy to wear the kilt if they so desired. At one stage, there were as many as 35 kilted boys. They wore the kilt every day, not just on Sundays as is the case in the other prep schools. The kilts belonged to the headmaster at the time, Mr Grange, and were eventually gifted to the Scottish Tartans Society where they are having another useful life being lent out to any boy who wants one and agrees to wear it.

The kilt was not worn in the following three schools: Belhaven Hill, Lomond, and St Mary's

[Riverkilt]

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.

[Brother Falldown]

While it has been said you look like many things, never have you been mistaken for a Catholic school girl!!

[Andrewson]

You just picked the wrong school...

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The schools madmacs goes on to quote are all fee-paying public (i.e. in normal parlance "private") schools. But in my own state run Scottish secondary school several boys in my year wore the kilt every day to school. It was an allowed but not specified part of the uniform. I didn't. Hadn't seen the light back then ...

[California Highlander]

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.

[Piipriker]

Why do I always think of Frank Zappa, when I read Catholic (School) Girl?

[English Bloke]

Frank Zappa... Now there, was a proper Bloke!!

[O'Callaghan]

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.