Silly silly

[shanmonster]

Aha!

Today, I wore my "scooter" to work. A scooter is a silly piece of clothing. It looks like a skirt, but has shorts built in underneath. I'm not entirely sure what purpose this serves, aside from making it a legal piece of clothing to wear to work. You see, I can wear shorts this length, but not a skirt. It's too short for a skirt.

So since a scooter is shorts disguised as a skirt, I was checked out today by the clothing police. I got to show that yes, there are shorts underneath it, and yes, it is regulation length.

I win!

Go me!

I win at teh intarweb.

Of course, it's a pyrrhic victory, because I didn't get to go home. Heh....

Comments

[fusty-cabbages.livejournal.com]

I always thought those things were called a "skort".

Dress codes suck, but they do have a place. The ex worked at a call center and the majority of the staff there really had no concept of appropriate work attire. The dress code was called "casual", but the younger people would want to dress in club-wear (bare navels and thongs galore), while the older crowd wanted to show up in sweatpants and stained nascar t-shirts. Eventually they put up posters displaying examples of the "appropirate" and "inappropriate" dress.

Why dress codes when you don't work face-to-face with clients? It is supposed to foster a more professional work environment, and VIPs like to make surprise visists to call centers.

[snowy-kathryn.livejournal.com]

I may be wrong, but it seems to me that "skorts" are the skirt-shorts combination where they really are just shorts with wider (sometimes pleated!) flaring legs that makes them appear to be a skirt. "Skooters" seem to be regular shorts built inside of a functional skirt or sometimes just a "fooler" skirt panel in front. I may be crazy though. You should ask f00dave. He has an uncanny appreciation for weird articles of women's clothing.

[petechons.livejournal.com]

...OK, then what are culottes? ;)

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I used to call culottes gauchos. Go figure. They are longer skirt/pants, like around knee-length, and generally with an A-line shape.

[j00j.livejournal.com]

We call the item Shanmonster described a "skort" in my part of the US, but that doesn't, of course, mean it's the same everywhere.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I know skorts as the things which look like a miniskirt in the front and shorts in the back.

[snowy-kathryn.livejournal.com]

Ok. I think I may have it! Perhaps "skorts" refers to all manner of clothing mutation that involves a pair of shorts and a skirt. "Skooters" and "culottes" would be specific examples within the larger category of "skort". Woah. You know I don't want to get to my packing when...

[zombienought.livejournal.com]

On my 16th birthday, a Mormon girl took me
on a date consisting of minigolf and a movie.
She was proudly wearing this empire-waisted
white outfit that I think was a scooter. I
was very frustrated, as it effectively ar-
moured her against any potential invasion.

Sometimes I wonder if it wasn't just the
Mormon underclothes, though...

[foxxydancr.livejournal.com]

And then of course, there are also skants, which is the godawful practice of wearing yoga pants (or some other clingy cotton pants) *under* a short skirt. It's a style that is particularly prominent among dancers (specifically, in my experience lindy hoppers) but seems to be stretching beyond the boundaries of dance-dom. not the greatest look on most people...

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I'm wearing clingy cotton shorts under a mini dress. It's not because I think it looks good, but because it was the only thing I could whip up today which would meet the dress code requirements and not be overwhelmingly hot to wear while cycling to work.

[foxxydancr.livejournal.com]

it's just the pants/skirt thing that weirds me out. I understand the functionality of having the cute flair of a skirt but not being indecent when you spin, I just don't get it as street fashion.

Your solution is eminently practical though.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I don't find it a particularly attractive look, I must say.

[cathellisen.livejournal.com]

Yeah - the clothing police can get a tad SS in the the corporate world.

This article really irritated me, because here they're using the whole "corporate image" ideal really stupidly. Ratsafarians are allowed their dreads because it is religious - so why should a Muslim woman be singled out because her faith tells her to cover her head before God?

clicky (http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20050717142801697C450035&newslett=1&em=55337a1a20050718ah)

Re: boiling humanity down to a sentence

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Couldn't you also use long dreads to strangle someone?

Re: boiling humanity down to a sentence

[cathellisen.livejournal.com]

"She has worked for the department as a social worker for the past six years and had no complaints about her dress until April."

If it was a legitimate security issue, why is only being brought up six years later? To me this just reeks of discrimination.

But back on topic of stupid work dress-codes... don't you think that waiters in "sports-type" bars have to wear the most awful uniforms? It's like they're deliberately designed to make one look like a semi-literate idiot.

Re: boiling humanity down to a sentence

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

This makes me think of the "flair" scene from Office Space.