FLUFF S/O - Jr high/High School fashion choices

I wore a dress on the second day of 7th grade after several teachers assumed I was a boy because I had short hair... Other than that no.

High school Class of ‘85. I played jh and hs sports so had to dress up on game days. Depending on the season I would occasionally wear a skirt/dress but it was more often dress pants. As an adult I love dresses, and wear them to work all summer.

I did.  Mostly skirts.  I had 3 demin skirts of various lengths I liked to wear and also a few casual dresses.  This was the late 80s.

Twelve years of Catholic school (sixteen if you count college) and of course we wore uniforms.

Whenever we had that rare day we were allowed to be out of uniform almost all of the girls would wear nice dresses. .

My sister and I also had to dress up for Mass each week. I can distinctly remember being 12 years old and my mom was out of town and my Dad allowed us to wear blue jeans to Saturday night Mass.

In college most all of the girls dressed nicely for class sweats just weren't worn to classes unless it was a P.E. class and then we changed into nice clothes right after.

I’m old and the dress code was a lot different back then. No pants, slacks or jeans at any time for any reason. Our skirts had to touch the floor when we kneeled. This was a public school system. We could wear pants in the winter only if we walked to school, but had to change to a skirt. I waited for a bus and in the winter at 6:30 in the morning it could be so cold. I don’t even want to talk about when there was several feet of snow on the ground.

I’ll never forget when one of my friends got sent home from school for wearing a skort. She had to go home and change. It should be noted that she graduated in the top 10 in our class of over 460 students. She went on the study at universities in the US, Madrid and Hamburg and was a graduate of the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

I am retired now, but when I worked I never wore pants to the office at any job I had. I had a closet full of business suits with the occasional dress. Now I don’t even think I own a dress. I certainly haven’t worn one or high heels in years.

No I’d say those were the “anti-dress” years.
But in college I wore a lot of dresses simply bc my sorority (and boyfriend’s fraternity) had a lot of formals and “wine and cheese” date nights (no joke lol)

I wore uniforms from 1st through 7th grade. In the younger grades we had to wear a stupid, UGLY plaid skirted jumper. I think in maybe 2nd or 3rd grade they changed it so girls could either wear pants made of the uniform plaid fabric or navy blue corduroy pants. Yes, I was that girl wearing navy corduroys even when it was 85° in late May, ugh. I *HATED* wearing dresses then, and still do now. I also vividly remember one Easter when my mom wanted to buy me a dress to wear for church and I flat out refused. She ended up buying me an outfit that was light blue pants with a matching shirt and I even hated that, LOL. I looked surly in all of the photos she took. 

In 8th grade I transferred to public junior high (for only one year, because the next year they switched up all the grades and I went to high school). I remember going “school shopping” with my mom for the first time ever, and I remember her buying me dressier blouses and a plaid shirt with the little ribbon tie at the collar. It was ‘80-‘81 after all, LOL. No skirts though. That was the year I was confirmed and we had the same shopping battle because she wanted me to wear a dress for that and I was all HELL TO THE NO! She partly won that battle because I ended up wearing one of those red and black plaid kilt looking skirts with the big pin in the front. I never wore it again after that.

In high school, I wore polo shirts with the collars popped, crew neck sweaters with a little embroidered logos on the chest (Izod was popular, so was Ralph Lauren) and Guess? jeans with the zippers at the ankles were all the rage. They were expensive though and I only had 2-3 pairs. I literally wore them out. Vans, Nikes and Keds were the tennis shoes of choice but I also recall wearing penny loafers a lot.

I didn't wear dresses often (I don't remember any, but it was a long time ago). but I wore miniskirts A LOT. They were usually shorter than the dress code required, but I never got caught lol A few times, I wiggled them down far enough to seem like they were long enough, if the principal was nearby lol

It was the late '80s as stupidly oversized sweaters + very short skirts was a popular look. I'm tall with long legs so it capitalized on my best assets

I went to high school 1980-1984. I was definitely a new wave / punk girl. I got all of my fashion tips from MTV. So dresses were definitely in my rotation. As were high heel pumps (does anyone wear pumps anymore?), fish net stockings, and safety pin / razor blade earrings. Madonna and Cyndi Lauper gave me too many fashion ideas.

Limited Express was my first choice for clothing. Now their clothing is really main stream but in the early 80s it was pretty edgy.

I think I was a six 4 or something like that, and and 105 pounds (5'7"). I have a big head so I basically looked like a lollypop. Fun dresses were really easy to find. I wish I was thin (but not that thin) now- I'd wear a lot of dresses now if it wasn't so hard to find flattering ones in my size.

I dressed up in beautiful clothes every day. Complete with matching purse and heels. I wanted to go to law school, so everyone called me Elle Woods. Teachers would come find me every day to see what I was wearing.

One teacher called me “Myshelly and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Wardrobe.” She wrote that in my yearbook.

I was voted Best Dressed.

I was private kindergarten with no uniform so I probably wore dresses with shorts under often.

Grades 1-4 (early 80's) I wore a catholic school uniform of a hideous blue and white plaid jumper or pants from the same fabric with peter pan collar white button up shirts and knee socks in white or blue and lace up black or brown shoes.

Grade 5-12 I was in public school. No uniform. I wore whatever the hell I wanted. Jeans, overalls, shorts, tee shirts, sweatshirts, whatever. It was AWESOME! No dresses or skirts unless I was going to a formal dance. Shoes were birks or doc martens or converse or keds.

Now, as a teacher- I wear whatever the hell I want as well... jeans, leggings, shorts, tee shirts, tank tops, hoodies, sandals, boots, tennis shoes... I think I might be stuck in HS. (I teach HS- LOL)

Compulsory uniforms here, so I had no choice but to wear a dress. On the rare days when we were allowed to wear "free dress" I would usually wear jeans, but a skirt / dress if it was summer.

We were allowed to wear what we wanted in Year 12 (1985). In my Year 12 phots I was wearing a pink skirt and top, and Linda R was wearing the exact same outfit but in apricot. 

Jr High was when we were first allowed to wear pants. No blue jeans, but any other color was acceptable. By high school we could wear blue jeans too. I graduated in the mid-seventies so I lived in peasant and embroidered shirts with little mirror inserts, bell bottom low cut jeans and earth shoes. Grew up in South Florida, no AC in the schools but we could never wear shorts. Now the schools have AC and the kids can wear shorts.

I had to wear dresses 2 times a week for elementary school. By junior high and high school, my mom made me awesome clothes that were a good year ahead of their time. At the time I didn't think they were so awesome though. I dressed up teaching and thought teachers should wear dresses/skirts several times a week. Not always practical when you live in Colorado in the winter. I got voted best dressed and then one year decided that it was all kind of silly and began dressing warmer and let my freak flag fly with my fun socks.