Jane Bowron: Imagine a future without skirts or even shirts
(WorldNews New Zealand)

OPINION: British schoolboys at Isca Academy in Exeter created headlines over hemlines when they took to wearing skirts during an intense heatwave. The lads looked both cool and, to use a modern parlance, `hot` in the pleated tartan skirts, which they had borrowed from sisters and female friends attending the same school. When the boys` head teacher refused to relax a dress code banning the boys from the more suitable option of wearing shorts, the boys protested by taking to the skirt. According to one of the boys` mothers, the lads were only taking the head teacher at her own word after she sarcastically told them if they didn`t like the no-shorts ruling, they could wear skirts. Welcome to...