John Kelleher, president of R.J. McCarthy, Ontario's biggest supplier of school uniforms, agrees that he has seen "a mild trend away from kilts" in recent years.

Hathaway's character, Mia Thermopolis, wore her school uniform — plaid kilt and all — quite a bit in the first film, eventually trading it in for regal ballgowns and elegant skirt suits.

This is all to say, it might be time to dig your old private school kilt out of your closet (or invest in a new pleated skirt if you were lucky enough to avoid uniform-mandated schooling).

Nataliya Bomchyk, 14, and her mother, Oksana, shop for a kilt at R.J. McCarthy uniform store in Toronto. (Aug. 27, 2009) ...

The skirts have become an issue in recent years for many schools, administrators, parish communities and parents at the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board. There’s concern about the manner ...

Grade 12 student Laura Jabbour likes everything about her uniform. The 16-year-old enjoys the number of options that Appleby College, a co-ed school in Oakville, Ont., offers – blue or white ...

In response, the school created five “gender neutral” options, including shorts, long pants, culottes, a kilt and long trousers, with pupils free to choose any of the options, regardless of ...

It was –2 C when 15-year-old student at Vancouver's all-female York House school set aside the kilt of her uniform, and slipped on slacks.

A girl’s skirt or kilt from the high street cost £6.75, boys’ shorts were priced at £5.71, and trousers cost £8.15. Girls’ ...