Australian dinosaur lesbian here who went to high school in the 90s. Yes, the vast majority of schools in Australia have a school uniform you are obliged to wear. How strict the school is about adhering to the uniform usually depends on the school. State schools (i.e. the free schools funded by the government that any old riff-raff can go to) are usually more flexible than private schools, especially for state schools in poorer areas where parents often can't afford expensive uniforms. I went to one such state school, and the uniform was white polo shirt and shorts or school skirt in the warmer months, and a generic tracksuit of a certain colour in the cold months.

Meanwhile, snotty nosed private school kids I caught the bus with had much stricter uniforms, and they couldn't ignore it or switch it up at all. Girls had to wear skirts, no shorts for them, also usually blouses for the girls and shirts for the boys. Everything had to have the school logo plastered all over it. All of them, boys and girls, also had to wear hideous hats and even their schoolbag had to be a special one bought from the school with the school logo and colours.

But like I say - us trashy state school kids didn't care that much about sticking to the rules, and the school didn't care that much either. In winter, a lot of girls wore slacks rather than ugly track pants. A lot of the boys did too. At one point, our school got stroppy about it and tried to stop the girls (just the girls) wearing slacks, but that was just plain old sexism. And none of the girls cared, they just kept wearing slacks. I can't imagine that things would have changed so much that a girl would get accused of being 'one of them' (what? a lesbian? a transkid?) for wearing pants in 2013.

What she's really complaining about with all of the pressure to be cute, pretty, decorative etc. is sex-role stereotypes. Yes, they suck for everyone. That's why feminists want to get rid of them. They don't just suck for gender-specials, who think they should get exemptions and leave the rest of us in the poo.