Skirts (Thailand)

Through the 2000s, skirts in the Thai campuses kept getting shorter. It certainly encouraged a lot of students to stay put in the university, continue on to do masters and more. Now that the skirts are getting longer, I can finally apply for that masters program, without worrying about too much competition.

Uniform shop in Nimman, Chiangmai.

Someone I know, who is no longer a student,is still a fan of these. Whenever we go for a walk, if she spots a uniform shop, she’ll drag me in to check out the latest trends. Below, I was dragged into another uniform shop, this time in Bangkok, in 2006.

Notes:

Pat Wongvanakit ran a study that aimed to figure out the attitudes of 200 male second-year

students at Khon Kaen University studying in the Faculty of Engineering, Agriculture, Law and Humanities and Social Sciences during the academic year of 2009

Wongvanakit, P. (2010). Attitude of male students toward female students at Khon Kaen University wearing short skirts (PDF) Thammasat University

When male students were asked if female students wearing short skirts caused them to attend class, 46.7% of respondents disagreed, 32.9% agreed and 23.4% were unsure.

Interesting point that a significant majority of male students, 61.0% of participants, stated that they would not like their girlfriends to wear short skirts. In contrast, only 13.5% of male students indicated that they would prefer their girlfriends to wear short skirts.