You’ve got to hand it to the boys at Isca Academy in Exeter.
Faced with sweltering temperatures and a no-shorts uniform policy, they rocked up to classes wearing skirts.
And the skirts suited them.
But something struck me.
Apart from it being draconian to make boys wear long trousers in summer, why don’t boys wear skirts anyway?
Maybe it’s time to scrap gendered uniform lists and the stupid invisible social rules which dictate what men should wear and what women should wear.
The school boys weren’t the only ones to leave the trousers in the wardrobe and pull on a skirt.
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