Acting head teacher Alun Ebenezer denied teachers had clipped pupils’ nails or checked the length of skirts with a tape measure A school head teacher has defended his policy on the length of ...

A school head teacher has defended his policy on the length of skirts following criticism from parents. Pupils at Caldicot School in Monmouthshire have said a number of girls were sent home.

They climbed back up in the mid-1930s and stayed knee-length during the supposed wartime boom of the 1940s. When Dior released long, voluminous skirts in 1947, the trend seemed to foreshadow the ...