Maybe you thought we'd settled the pants-for-women question back in the 1970s. Think again! A high school in California is laying down the law: girls must wear gender-appropriate clothing for prom and for yearbook photos. Guess they never saw Marlene Dietrich in a tuxedo.
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Panya
4/17/2013 05:55:31 pm
I was actually told by the *female* assistant principal at my high school that I had to wear a dress or skirt for my graduation ceremony *in 1999*. I told her I was going to wear pants whether she liked it or not, and I did! There was nothing in the school rulebook regarding girls wearing pants, so I couldn't believe she thought she could tell me what to wear! I wore a men's "suit" (slacks and sportcoat, really) to present my thesis/defense in college. There were no rules prohibiting it—well, I didn't bother to check because it wasn't 1955 and I'm *stunned* that this is still an issue 20 years after I so casually assumed that women can wear pants and not…actually, what IS the perceived threat?—and my board of examiners didn't so much as bat an eye. Which was the point: I'd grown weary of listening to my fellow (female) students discuss what they were going to wear/had worn to their defense presentations. I wanted to focus on the defense itself. Now, while the staff didn't blink, I do recall being fawned over by one or two of my fellow (male) students. Marlene knew what she was doing. Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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