I sometimes wear skirts and dresses – but they're funky rather than feminine.
Many schools hope to thwart the decades-long habit of rolling up the waistband of skirts by looking for new styles that can't be "customised".
One teacher told the Observer: "Girls hitching up their skirts is not new, but it is getting worse, and the skirts are getting so high that male teachers are constantly saying they are embarrassed by the sight of female underwear in the corridors and especially on the stairs".
"Women in mini skirts and daisy dukes are the norm in society through the eyes of men, but a man wearing shorts shocks men".
She gestured to a flower-seller with long, braided hair and the traditional huipil (embroidered blouse) and voluminous skirts of the Juchiteca – but the hands wrapping dripping stems of tuberoses and hibiscus were enormous and hairy, and there was a prominent Adam's apple poking out above the neckline of the blouse.
There is no jailbait, there are no girls asking for it – only a culture that would rather condemn short skirts than face a serious conversation about sexual consent.
That's what Fragonard's painting The Swing is about – the wonderful joke of the painting is that while the man tries to sneak a look up the swinging woman's skirts, Fragonard's receding, melting, luxuriant garden landscape gives the painting's beholder a sensory evocation of all he longs to see.
But long skirts for real life, for daytime?
The ambitious fashion week street style types wear long skirts with almost-as-long floaty coats on top, and it can look awesome.
As a teenager on the tour, "constantly staying in host families", wearing "those little white skirts" on court, Croft was "so terrified of leaking" that her mum sent her "this hideous pair [of underwear], like a shower cap.
Last week another Scottish head, Robert Kelly, rector of Berwickshire High in Duns, said short skirts were encouraging "inappropriate thoughts" among boys.
