As students return to school, one patterned textile now synonymous with uniforms will make its seasonal reappearance on pleated ... Catholic schools in Philadelphia, wearing plaid uniforms through ...

Scandalized by shrinking skirts among its female student body, a Catholic high ... School's female students could choose between black slacks and a plaid kilt meant to reach the knee.

(Dwyer-McNulty herself attended two different Catholic schools in Philadelphia, wearing plaid uniforms through high school). Uniforms were only associated with parochial and private schools until ...