The Mini-skirt Ban has now started...

[Gromit]

Southampton City Council bosses have banned staff from wearing mini-skirts and could send them home if they flout the rules.

Women staff received a memo telling them they needed to dress respectfully and wear skirts of 'reasonable' length.

The memo insists they dress in 'appropriate' clothing for their line of work, including trousers, informal dresses or skirts of 'reasonable' length - but 'not mini-skirts'.
Outraged Southampton City Council staff say they fear bosses may start prowling offices armed with a ruler or tape measure, while their union threatened to fight the ban.

The leaked email, which was sent to around 400 staff, advised men to wear collared or polo shirts, cotton trousers such as khakis or chinos with a belt, and 'dress shoes'.
It warned social workers, youth workers, educational welfare officers and others in the children's services department to 'carefully consider their work attire'.

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Surely, people should be allowed to wear what they want?

[snags]

''Mum did ask you to cross your legs''

Yeah... after over an hour... she's a right one your Mum...

[China Doll]

I wondered what she was squinting at ;oP

Vibes... It better be snags you have wood for and not my mother, that would just be wrong...

[anotheoldgit]

/// If they are in an office all day and do not meet the public, can they wear mini-skirts?///

Best not to in case there are any creepy predictors who also work in the same office.

[jno]

they'll be safe, aog, all the creepy predators are posting on AB

[anotheoldgit]

When I worked in an office, all desks had a modesty rail fitted on the front.

[anotheoldgit]

/// and the proud possessor of an impressive cleavage myself...the bum just isn't up to a mini any more though.///

Blimey whereabouts is your cleavage?

[anotheoldgit]

If you were a boss would you allow a cross dresser to work in your establishment?

But then in this PC age would they be charge with discrimination if they refused to employ that person?

Would you have to provide private facilities just for that one person?

[jno]

cross dressers? Where I worked, women in trousers had no trouble getting hired, and they used the same loos as women in skirts.

[woofgang]

sqad your comment made me smile but many years ago the girls decided to retire from public life and I respect their decision.

[boxtops]

35 years ago I worked in the offices of a brewery. We were wearing miniskirts then and there were very clear guidelines about the minimum length of the skirt. This is nothing new. I wish more firms would implement dress codes - I get exasperated with people turning up for work looking as if they were going to the beach (or worse, to a rave).

[LeMarchand]

I work for SCC (but not in the offices) and never saw that memo - it might have been in one of the many that I just skimmed. Anyway, surely "business dress" (as stipulated in most environments) does not include mini skirts?

Personally, I support the ban. If the woman is in the minority that suits the skirt, it's distracting; if she's in the majority that doesn't, it's unpleasant.

Mind you, I always feel that women tend to be able to wear a much wider range than men in a business environment. Men are restricted to smart trousers and smart shirt (possibly also a tie and jacket) whilst women can wear pretty much anything that isn't too revealing or out there.

[piggynose]

surely less work gets done in a typical workplace when the miniskirt is worn

[boxtops]

what do you call a typical workplace, piggy? I work in the NHS and in my building a good 80% of us are women - the whole of my team is female - miniskirts don't put any of us off!

[123everton]

Years ago one of my mates rear ended in me in a Titan cos he was ogling some piece, lol, there was no damage, coulda been worse.
Noone forces you to look, your attention should lie before you not beside you, I'm guilty of it too though.
A.O.G, your mission should you choose to accept it (but only if you're really bored) see if you can spot the modesty strip on all P.C.V vehicles, it's a P.G 9 (prohibition requirement) to be fitted, if it's missing the vehicle should be put out of service immediately.

[boxtops]

Talking of modesty, the front panel of a desk used to be called a modesty panel, so nobody on the other side of the room could look up your skirt while you were sitting there.....

[piggynose]

boxtops, sorry i wasn´t clear enuf for you, i meant in a mixed sex workplace. incidentally when you say NHS, are you in an office or a hospital?

[boxtops]

piggy - I happen to be in an office in a PCT, but they do have offices in hospitals too! ;-)

[naomi24]

Many places of work impose a dress code - including offices in the city of London. I actually think it's a good thing. When my staff asked for a dress down day, I agreed. On the first day I joined them and instead of going into the office in the usual suit and heels, wore casual clothes. Odd, but I found I couldn't concentrate on work - so I didn't do it again. Before long they too all slipped back into wearing their usual office clothes every day. There's a degree of psychology attached to the clothes we wear. I think there really is something in that old saying 'Clothes maketh the man' - or woman in my case. :o)