Metro

Bloomberg revives desire to impose public school uniforms in NYC schools

He’d still like to tell students what to wear.

Mayor Bloomberg yesterday revived his decade-old wish to require all public-school students to wear uniforms to school.

Speaking on his weekly radio appearance, Bloomberg gave his nostalgic response after a caller expressed concern about the skimpy outfits students were wearing at Bayside HS in Queens.

“I’ve always thought uniforms made a lot of sense,” Hizzoner said. “It’s so much better for the parents. It’s cheaper. And then [it eliminates] this argument in the morning the way you dress.”

As a mayoral candidate in 2001, Bloomberg said he would require school uniforms as part of his school-system overhaul.

One year into his mayoralty, however, Bloomberg abandoned the bid. Policies are now left up to principals.

Teens around the city said the mayor who set limits on how people should eat, drink and smoke should forget about imposing fashion restrictions on kids.

“The way you dress defines you in high school. It doesn’t really save money to make us wear uniforms because most of us wear what we have already. We don’t buy whole new wardrobes every year,” said LaGuardia HS senior Amanda Okun, 17.

“They tried making us wear uniforms in my old public school and it didn’t work because no one wore them — and this was kindergarten.”