Time to stop getting so hot under the collar about dress codes

THE picture was of a line of schoolboys headed for class. At first glance, nothing remarkable about them. At second glance, something very remarkable about them, writes Terry Prone. 

They were wearing skirts. Uniform skirts in one of those repellent yellow-based plaids usually inflicted on schoolgirls.

The boys had appeared in school the previous day wearing shorts, this being their sensible method of coping with last week’s heatwave, and had been sent home immediately, because shorts breached the school’s dress code.