The recent concern about school kilts has prompted a St Clement’s (private) School old girl to observe that the nerve-wracking business of just where the girls should have their hemline has been around since the time of that great Ontario educator Egerton Ryerson. She confesses without embarrassment that she and her friends all hiked up the hems purely to tantalize the boys. It was not the kilt, but the one-piece tunic, that seemed to inspire the most hussy-like behavior she reports. “You would fluff up the top of the tunic above the belt and as you did, the skirt got shorter and shorter.” And she suspects that those present-day kilt wearing undergrads who say innocently “But, I like the kilt” have something similar in mind. What can you do? We suppose asking the boys to wear kilts, while not unmanly, is definitely out of the question. It seems for sure that the girls don’t want to wear the trousers, except figuratively, of course.
