Principal bans pyjamas at school

A trend of schoolgirls wearing pyjama bottoms under their uniforms has been banned at a South Island school.

Students at Waitaki Girls' High School, Oamaru, insisted they were trying to keep warm, but principal Linda Cowan decided the fashion curiosity was becoming so trendy as to be a nuisance.

"I have no idea why they were doing it," she said. "It wasn't because they were lazy - some of the girls were talking about their sleeping pyjamas and their school pyjamas."

Pupils said the practice was confined mainly to fourth and sixth formers who were wearing pyjama pants rolled up under their winter uniform kilts and tucked into their knee-high stockings.


The trend seems to be taking hold also in Dunedin among third and fourth formers. A Queens High School student, aged 13, said she had been wearing her pyjamas to school for the past three winters.

"We don't do it because it's cool.

"We do it because we can't be bothered getting changed in the morning.

"It's too cold."

- NZPA