Girls! Dress to strike the Sixth Form

Girls, don’t make the same mistakes that so many of us make, whether it be in our first week of Sixth Form, or beyond. It’s the common perception to numerous girls that you don’t have as definitive a dress code as the boys so you can wear the style of clothes you’d wear out on a weekend, day or night. No matter how much you tell yourself over your summer whilst buying your ‘Sixth Form clothes’ that they can also double up for that party on the weekend, it is not even close to happening. So here are some rules, regulations and tips that are sensible and yet also very clever ways of dressing to impress!

        

So here’s the long and short of it, the school rules state you should be wearing ‘a skirt of modest length or trousers, smart tops and a blazer or jacket is encouraged.’ So, what does that mean to us?

Flesh: Yes ok, you want to look good, but please, not too much flesh! Even as your fellow students we do NOT want to see you swanning around the ref with your skirt half way around your bum and your boobs hanging out! Yes, you can show a little, but be tasteful please; the teachers (and the girls!) really don’t want to see it and the lads of Sixth Form don’t need any other excuse for not completing that essay that was due in last week!

Jeans: Please don’t tell me that you have to be told that jeans are not included in the field of smart wear. Even your best jeans simply will not do. Be sensible, would you go to an office on a mid-week day and find half of the population of female employees in jeans? I think the answer is a firm no.

Heels: Now there are no stated rules about heel height for a female Sixth Form student, but again, be sensible with this one! Not only will you look very silly tottering around the Sixth Form Centre in your new 8inch heels you bought this weekend, they would not be a practical move at all. You do have to walk during your day in Sixth Form, it may not seem it, but subjects can be far away, and it will feel even further if you can’t walk in your shoes!

Leggings: Yes, they might be nice and warm to wear in the middle of winter. Yes, they might look like tights.  But are you seriously going to consider wearing them to school? Leggings are not smart wear. The typical office worker would not turn up to work in leggings, and, as the main reason for wearing your own clothes in Sixth Form is to give you a sense of office environment that will prepare you for the real world, it is not acceptable to wear them here either. Oh, and you don’t want to be known as ‘leggings girl’ either!

Accessories: It’s nice to wear the odd bracelet, a pair of earrings and possibly a necklace, but please don’t go to over the top! Although you won’t be told to take them off, like you would have in lower school, you need to keep them to a suitable level. You have to bear in mind that we are still at school. With the amount of year 7’s whizzing around the corridors between lessons, you have to be careful that you don’t get a dangly earrings ripped out!  Also, facial piercings are a no-no.  If you have one, get a clear plastic ‘retainer’.

Now, bearing all of this in mind, I think you’re prepared to go ‘Sixth Form clothes’ shopping, for all the right things. Just follow these rules and tips and you’ll be fine, you’ll look first-class, appropriate, and you won’t have to worry about hearing the dreaded catch phrase of ‘Young Lady, pull that skirt down’ being bellowed down the corridor!