OVER and above the uniform rules at any particular establishment, when they come into force or how or whether notification occurred, what kind of parents or guardians send children, barely in their teens, if that, off to school in tight-fitting “Miss Sexy” trousers?

Come to that, what sort of adults let their kids wear them at all, what type of shops sell them, and what kind of manufacturers produce them?

This form of dress may not interfere with its owners’ work, but it may well disrupt that of certain others.

In any case, girls who dress too old for their age tend to look hideous rather than sexy, in my view, but tastes differ, of course.

I recall a fellow sixth-former – yes – being reprimanded by the deputy head for sporting a blue, rather than a regulation grey or black pullover, to which he retorted that, as his mother was temporarily ill, it was the only one available, and that he would normally never dream of wearing his best jumper to school.

How times have changed.

DICK WOODINGTON, Cumnor Road, Oxford

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