Wearing plaid is easy when it comes to shirts. Pair them with your jeans, leggings, or tucked in to a skirt and you're good to go. Plaid skirts, on the other hand, are a different story. You don't ...

Editor’s Note: Examining clothes through the ages, Dress Codes is a new series investigating how the rules of fashion have influenced different cultural arenas — and your closet. As students return to ...

Think you can still spot a Catholic school girl by her rolled-up skirt? Many school administrators are giving up the fight over skirt lengths — either by issuing a traditional jumper or eliminating ...

Until May 17, girls at Cathedral Catholic high school were permitted to wear skirts that stopped no more than three inches above the knee and didn’t “cling to contours.” But faculty frustration with ...