Comment #2203

2010-11-10T15:50:25Z

I'm thankful I missed seamed stockings!

You have a good point. I see people with underwear and worse showing, and wonder, "What have we done?"

Some public elementary schools here have started requiring uniforms, albeit with much more freedom of choice (including shorts for both sexes) than is traditional with uniforms. They say that students' deportment has improved in parallel with the neater dress.

Comment #2202

2010-11-10T15:15:16Z

and I say this even though I wear pants almost every day...

Comment #2201

2010-11-09T20:50:00Z

I don't know where you grew up, but growing up in Ottawa, Ontario, I have vivid and still uncomfortable memories of knitted seamed stockings. No matter how I sat, those seams were uncomfortable!

Margaret Atwood once said that the archetypal Canadian girl experience is (or rather was), "stuffing our dresses down our snowpants."

I'm a little sorry that this evocative phrase no longer applies.

We moved to Glasgow, Scotland in December of 1970, shortly after girls had "won" the right to wear dress pants to school. Boys could wear pressed jeans, we argued, why couldn't we wear pants? Especially when it was -35 degrees C?

After two years of school uniforms in Glasgow and Scotland, I returned to a world and a high school transformed. In two short years, all dress-codes had gone out the window and everyone wore whatever they wanted. To my unaccustomed eyes, it seemed the brighter and wilder the better!

I'm torn between celebrating and appreciating the gain of comfort and mourning the loss - so clearly witnessed in this small anecdote - of modesty and decorum in dress. (and hence I think of modesty and decorum in deportment.)

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