Originally Posted by BetsyRoss
For a time, I too had to wear skirts and dresses to school. We were allowed to wear trousers under our skirts on the way to school when it was cold, but once we were in the warm building we were to take them off and look like little ladies. Ladies also wore hats to church, and sometimes gloves, even Protestants.
There was a teacher at one school of mine who'd taught my uncle. My ex was from parochial schools, and he said there was a nun when he was in elementary school who'd taught his mother and grandmother, and she was old THEN!