Two stories from the Guardian about boys or men wearing skirts to school or work when their dress code prohibited shorts.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/22/teenage-bo...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/22/french-bus-dri...
Making a point about dress codes and hot weather.
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just
Goes to prove that it's not the garment but the ridicule by others that stops most males wearing skirts.
Madeline Anafrid Bell
No discrimination here then.
Apparently one student claimed he was told to change his skirt because it was too short while another said it was because his legs were too hairy. Consistent application for the too short skirt, but discrimination over the hairy legs. I can just see a school trying the latter approach with girls
Skirts
Those who have anything to say what someone else wears should just bugger off.
Alternatives ...
I think that the French bus drivers might claim a religious exemption by asserting that they are members of the Eastern Reformed Scots sect which requires wearing a kilt at work and play.
Sara
Between the wrinkles, the orthopedic shoes, and nine decades of gravity, it is really hard to be alluring. My icon, you ask? It is the last picture I allowed to escape the camera ... back before most BC authors were born.
Nice to read a 'good news' story
After so much bad news from Britain in recent weeks, the report of the students of Isca School who took up a teacher's invitation to wear skirts when they weren't allowed to wear shorts in hot weather showed how there can be ways around stubborn bureaucracy. Interesting also to read that some of the students said they rather enjoyed the experience and might keep wearing them even when the weather cools down!