Teachers enforce dress codes by performing random spot checks on everything from skirt length to underwear color.

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Her standard outfit is a jacket with baggy trousers or calf-length skirt and flat-heeled, clodhopper shoes.

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This season, the slim knee-length skirt is reborn in an eye-popping array of prints.

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Not only did Ms. Jolie wear a Ralph Lauren Black Label Heatherly coat, but also a Ralph Lauren Collection floor-length skirt.

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About a half-hour in, she leaves the floor for the curtained changing area and returns in a tan calf-length skirt and lace cut-out halter top.

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Kate Hudson, rumored to have gained 60 pounds when she was pregnant, wore a sheer Chanel blouse and floor-length skirt cut to show off her four-month-expecting physique at the 2003 Venice Film Festival.

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Pink walked the red carpet in a metallic laser cut leather top and floor-length chiffon skirt.

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Cut the long piece of skirt steak into 3- to 4-inch sections, then cut each section into thin strips across the grain (that is, in line with the full length of the skirt steak).

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After a few times, I realized the garland was catching my knee-length choir dress in the back and flicking the skirt hem waist-high, exposing my bum for the entire eighth grade seated behind me.

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