Class sizes on the rise...

OUR increasingly tall kids have boosted demand for longer school trousers and skirts surge by 40%.

Some 13% of male pupils are wearing longer trousers compared with 11% four years ago.

Uniform supplier Trutex also found sales of shorter lengths fell from 31% to 23% and extra-short trousers plummeted 300%. And more than half of girls wear larger skirts compared with 31% in 2013.

A girl of 11 is now an inch taller and two-and-a-half inches bigger across the chest than 20 years ago, while boys are two inches taller and four inches broader.

Trutex’s Matthew Easter said: “What was the norm a decade ago is now considered small.”