why do high school cheerleaders wear short skirts?
920263
The skirts are short because of all the tumbling and gymnastics.  It helps them jump and do backfllps better. When cheerleaders first started, they were males.  Then when men went off to war, the women took over. The skirts were down to their ankles. It is hard to do backflips with long skirts. If they are not doing any type of gymnastics, I do not understand why their skirts are not longer.
622333
because thats the style most men pay attention to.\nwhen you go out you don't see men trying to pick up girls in loose jeans and T shirts, you see them crowded around the girl with the mini skirt and tube top.
1044276
Guys in Scotland wear kilts, which are skirts. I don't know if this is just a myth, but I heard that some of them wear NOTHING underneath. EEEWW!
746007
Uniforms are usually voted on by either the school board or the PTA, or both. There are several reasons many schools propose uniforms: \nThere is less competition among the children in dress. \nLess distinction between the 'haves' and 'have nots'\nFewer distractions with a uniform appearance\nLess hassle for parents trying to get kids ready for school\nThe teaching staff AND parents are not constantly having to police the dress code\nWith a uniform, there are no baggy jeans, knee length shirts (both of which can easily conceal weapons), super short skirts, belly shirts, etc which constantly have to be addressed by the staff.
908516
Old style you wore garters that kept them up; now the shorts you keep your cup in have velcro flaps that attach to the top of your socks and keep them up under your hockey pants.\n\nI don't wear either.  I don't need a cup, and the garters make me laugh. I wear workout pants under my gear because it keeps me cooler and warmer, and keeps my gear from getting as stinky.\n\nSo I just pull my socks up over my shinguards and tape them once around the top so they don't slip back down again.  Sometimes I'll tape under my knee too, but really it's not a big deal.  My pads and my socks all seem to stay put just fine.\n\nI don't like bare legs against my shinguards.  Gross.  Ew.\n\nI'm not the only person who does it this way, but I think most people wear the shorts.  Even the girls on my girls' team do.
371221
I have two teen daughters in cheerleading and have had many banquets to attend (I'm 39).  The best thing to wear is jeans, you can dress up jeans very easily.  Your not to old to wear a  cammi with something over it, maybe a jean jacket.  As far the the person who said "son cheerleading", he is one of the smart guys.  He gets to be friends with all of the cheerleaders...
243733
no it's a big turn on, I once had a girlfriend of many years who NEVER wore a skirt & it drove me nuts!! She had nice legs too, just wouldn't wear a skirt for some feminist bullshit reason. I on the other hand was regularly asked to 'dress up' for family meetings & the like. She was a bloody hypocrite. I'm now seeing girls who dress like girls, very liberating. Wear one, they work!
646190
it is easier for students at all schools, public and private, to wear a uniform to go to class.\n\nless competition and discrimination over appearance\n\ncheaper and ensures that students don't come to school in their beach clothes.\n\nthere is still enough room for individuality to be expressed through hair, shoes, makeup and general personality!
767775
Well most cheerleaders are snobby and rude. They try to flaunt their looks. I hate that about some of them. The popularity gets to the heads...sometimes they are too preppy and peppy. Yeah, but I guess that would be stereotyping.
117403
Other girls are often jealous and feel the need to put cheerleaders down because they want to feel better about themselves. Childish? Yes! Does it happen? Oh yeah. Try not to let it bother you too much:) \n\nP.S. Congrats on becoming a cheerleader! My daughter is on her high school squad and loves it too.
589428
I was in colorguard when I was in high school which wasn't that long ago. I did rifle and could do all the "moves". Every school has different names for it though.\n\nAnd colorguard is for people who don't want to be a cheerleader. Believe it or not, some people would rather do colorguard. At least I did. Plus I am doing it in college.
1105285
hahahaha.. WE WEAR SKIRT TO SHOW OFF OUR LEGS.. SKIRT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE WANT TO GO OUT...  U LOOKED AT THEM OR U LOOK UNDER THEM??? U MUST DID SOMETHING ELSE THAT'S Y SHE SLAPED U..
120500
Sometimes a girl just want to wear short stuff and be admired. Meaning, it's nice to be noticed. Yes, some girls take it too far and temp guys only to yell at them when they fall in the trap, but I can only tell u why I wear short stuff, and that is to look good. I feel good when others validate my choice of clothing, especially if a nice guy does the validating.
345819
because they can.\n\nbecause in the sex driven world of pop culture, role models are forced to reveal more and more of themselves just to make an impression. so hordes of followers, unwitting and otherwise, remove their clothes in an effort to attain the elusive goal of the norm
641315
I don't think a lot of people realize how competitive and athletic cheerleading has become.  I think back to when I was in high school and all the cheerleaders did back then was dance a little and kick a little and shake their pom-poms and lead cheers and look all cute and perky.\n\n"Rah rah ree, kick 'em in the knee!\n Rah rah razz, kick 'em in the other knee!"\n\nIn fact, in my high school, and I'm sure in most others at the time - this was about 25 years ago now - cheerleaders were voted on by the student body, so it was as much a popularity contest as it was anything else.\n\nI look at the junior high and high school cheerleader squads nowadays, and I'm seeing all sorts of flips and throws and athletic stunts that they would have thought to be absolutely insane back when I was that age.  \n\nAs far as what to do to explain to people what cheerleading is now as opposed to how they remember it?  Perhaps when you have your sign-up nights, you could arrange to have some videos running that show competitions and what the girls will be expected to do, or have some visual of that nature, maybe even a demo or two by your current squad, so that the parents and the girls can see how cheerleading has evolved into the sport it is now, rather than the primping and giggling that it used to be.
399576
cheerleaders usually have larger chests than gymnasts so they would probably prefer cheerleaders whom are just as flexable.
95576
Women are more visually appealing in skirts than men.